Are we really pushing the ‘Fitness Regime’ to the players because recently we’ve seen plenty of injuries?
It is alarming, but they also understand that they’ve let themselves go and if they do that, it’s their own fault because then they will get injured, and it has happened. So it’s a good lesson and it’s a culture change as well. I mean, we only started this fitness thing about a year and a half ago. And there’s a lot of opposition to that as well. But now, I think little by little, they also have realized that it has to happen because they can’t compete at that level and be fit we might not be able to change every player but if we can start with the younger groups and the development squads and all that, at least we can create a culture.
For the first time, we have got a Nutritionist working full-time with all the national players, and club players as well. We’ve got a Sports Psychologist too, a Sri Lankan guy, we’re trying to get him full-time but he’s still not full-time with us but he’s had quite a few sessions with the player. So these are aspects that you need to improve.
Technology-wise, we’ve managed to get all the modern-day analysis, and all the software done. We’re getting the new Catapult, which is arriving, I’m bringing it back when I go next week. It just arrived in Colombo, which is the new GPRS system so that you can monitor a lot of things not just the volume of players but we can check the heart rate monitors and there are sensors which you can evolve in the fatigue levels of certain muscles and those things also can be monitored, which then gives you data on where the players are players. So then, if they need a break or not, kind of thing, that we haven’t done for so many years. Some of the franchise teams are at AI (Artificial Intelligence) now.
Yeah, we’re so far behind on all that but at least we are starting which is a positive thing and people are listening that we need this. We just keep on improving on these things and get the right people involved who understand that as well. I mean, that’s the challenge that we have with coaches and everyone who needs to be involved, they need to have those qualifications, the intelligence to run this. You can’t just come in and do that because if not then it won’t tally together, but we’re trying to do what we need to do.
It is alarming, but they also understand that they’ve let themselves go and if they do that, it’s their own fault because then they will get injured, and it has happened. So it’s a good lesson and it’s a culture change as well. I mean, we only started this fitness thing about a year and a half ago. And there’s a lot of opposition to that as well. But now, I think little by little, they also have realized that it has to happen because they can’t compete at that level and be fit we might not be able to change every player but if we can start with the younger groups and the development squads and all that, at least we can create a culture.
For the first time, we have got a Nutritionist working full-time with all the national players, and club players as well. We’ve got a Sports Psychologist too, a Sri Lankan guy, we’re trying to get him full-time but he’s still not full-time with us but he’s had quite a few sessions with the player. So these are aspects that you need to improve.
Technology-wise, we’ve managed to get all the modern-day analysis, and all the software done. We’re getting the new Catapult, which is arriving, I’m bringing it back when I go next week. It just arrived in Colombo, which is the new GPRS system so that you can monitor a lot of things not just the volume of players but we can check the heart rate monitors and there are sensors which you can evolve in the fatigue levels of certain muscles and those things also can be monitored, which then gives you data on where the players are players. So then, if they need a break or not, kind of thing, that we haven’t done for so many years. Some of the franchise teams are at AI (Artificial Intelligence) now.
Yeah, we’re so far behind on all that but at least we are starting which is a positive thing and people are listening that we need this. We just keep on improving on these things and get the right people involved who understand that as well. I mean, that’s the challenge that we have with coaches and everyone who needs to be involved, they need to have those qualifications, the intelligence to run this. You can’t just come in and do that because if not then it won’t tally together, but we’re trying to do what we need to do.
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