Could AFL players be over trained ?

Question

The media are hilighting the health risks to athletes who abuse their bodies with training beyond their capacity. Do elite footballers fall into this category. ?

Answer 1

the body can only take so much fit or fit and healthy

Answer 2

I think some of them are but lets face it they are way more pampered than they were years ago.

Answer 3

yes they do. That's why in the AFL home and away season a club doesn't face the other 15 teams at both their home ground and at an away ground. The AFL doesn't want players to get long term or any injuries.

Answer 4

good q

some train them to hard

but that why they are the fittest team sportsmen in the world

Answer 5

Yes, I agree.

We were only comparing present day footballers with the likes of Emma Carney & Lisa Curry just the other day.

When 17 year olds start suffering from that ostio pubis (sp) complaint & having to have operations - I think that speaks for itself.

The players are so finely tuned & rotated off the bench so frequently that if they are going at 100% just about the whole time they are on the ground - something has to snap...it's only natural.

Mick malthouse is whinging again (does he ever stop?) about the leagues restrictions on interchange. Mick wants another two players on the bench. He had 110 interchanges last week - the bloke wants his head read, For someone (Mick) who couldn't run out of sight on a dark night when he was playing seems h**l bent on going down in history as being responsible for the change in pace of the game.

Answer 6

The only other sports that come to mind that could be as fit or more are swimming, distance runners--5K races and longer?

Triathletes are just into personal torture, I expect they over train.

Answer 7

AFL clubs monitor their players very closely in that regard, they have heart rate monitors at training and all sorts of data that we never hear about.

abuse is a strong word, players get conditioned to hard work on the track, most of the hard work is done during pre-season, its more just working on game plans, keeping the fitness levels up etc, through out the year.

those days are gone when teams get flogged on the track for losing etc.

so no i don't think our players fall into that category.

Answer 8

some do

but that is the demands of elite professional sport these days

im sure their bodies would be used to it by now

Answer 9

No

Definition: maltreatment: cruel or inhumane treatment

AFL players are not inhumanely treating their bodies.