'The biggest problem is that you don’t train the muscle': Arteta addressing fatigue and injury risk
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has opened up about how he adjusts training to address player fatigue, particularly focusing on the challenges of muscle and tendon recovery.
"It's very limited, we train less than ever. You see our data, we train less than ever, it’s normal. There’s no time for training. But when we talk about training, it's not only what happens on the grass.
"The biggest problem is that you don’t train the muscle. That’s the problem, so the muscle is undertrained and when you expose the muscle and the tendon to an exposure that they can not absorb, because the tendon needs 72 hours to recover, so a lot of people talk about what are we doing outside?
"It’s not outside, it’s inside when you have to load that muscle for two, three, six, eight weeks, when you haven’t trained it the risk of injury is much bigger, one because the muscle and tendon are not recovered and then it’s not prepared to absorb the load and the stress you’re going to put it under again every three days. That’s the problem," Arteta has shared.
