Quando a ciência...não é Ciência

Numa das minhas buscas...encontrei um artigo interessante.

O título é interessante, "Wolves replace sweat with science in new take on pre-season training" - "Wolverhampton substitui o transpirar, por ciência, numa nova forma de encarar a pré-época".

Porreiro, vamos lá a isto:

"Premier League teams are making more use of sports scientists and fitness experts as they look to optimise their conditioning work before the new season"

Não começa bem...mas continuemos...

"The days of gruelling long-distance road runs are a thing of the past"

"while the introduction of state-of-the-art technology, including GPS tracking devices, means that there is no hiding place on the training ground".

E continua o artigo...

"The behind-the-scenes access provided a fascinating insight into the way that a Premier League club approaches pre-season training, revealing just how much the landscape has changed, including the sort of attention to detail that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago".

"There was a time when McCarthy would have had a whistle around his neck and a stopwatch in his hand during pre-season but those days are long gone. "I've got guys who have gone to university and studied sports science and strength and conditioning," McCarthy says."

Isto já está a ir num sentido, mas porque é que o McCarthy pensa que está melhor assim?

"It's more structured and scientific now. I've no doubt when I was doing pre-season my managers would have had it all planned what we were going to do: running, weight sessions, press-ups and sit-ups. But it just appeared that we always did it to exhaustion; players being sick. I've never seen players here being sick."

Meu deus.

Publicaram um exemplo de um dia na vida de um jogador do Wolves:

Training day

Wolves' first week of pre-season training made summer holidays seem a distant memory

7-8am Light breakfast (optional)

8.30-9.30am Players report to gym and are divided into two groups, alternating between doing the jump test (measures leg strength) and a leg-weight session. Players given a protein recovery shake immediately afterwards

9.30-10.30am Breakfast (cereal/fruit/eggs)

11am – noon Stretching. Players divided into two groups, alternating between the T-test (speed/agility) and head-tennis

1pm Lunch (carbohydrate and protein-based)

3.15pm-3.35pm Dynamic stretching session (on the move rather than static)

3.35pm Players divided into two groups, alternating between an endurance session with the ball (dribbling around cones, lifting it over hurdles and running with it at their feet for four minutes) and a keep-ball session, when they are, in effect, recovering from the other exercise (O QUÊ?!?!!?) . Three times through on each exercise

4.10pm-4.25pm Players have to complete three 800m runs each inside three minutes, with three minutes of rest in between the runs

4.25pm A 10-minute cool down followed by ice baths, massage and rest

6pm Dinner (carbohydrate and protein based) followed by rest for the players

Sinceramente, não entrarei na discussão sobre os erros científicos de tal metodologia, porque ela é por demais evidente.

Não entrarei numa crítica a metodologias, apesar de só ter sumado 1 ponto nos 2 jogos já disputados.

Sinto-me confuso, quando apelidam de "new take", "landscape has changed", "attention to detail", "unimaginable only a few years ago".

Há quantos anos não se treina futebol, andebol, voleibol, desta forma!?

É um crime, vermos "sports scientists" que "studied at University", destruir o futebol desta forma. O meu background de Ensino Superior, poder-se-á dizer, que é idêntico.

Agora...um exercício de posse de bola para...descansar?!

Atravam-se aqueles a dizer que isto foi "aquilo que eles quiseram mostrar" ou "o jornalista interpretou mal o que estava a ver".

Mentira, pelo formato do artigo, pelos nomes referidos, este jornalista teve o previlégio de estar umas horas a seguir uma equipa da Premier League.

Não admira que:

"Penso que Portugal tem uma metodologia de treinos que está dez anos avançada em relação ao resto do Mundo. Não todos, somos três ou quatro, mas estamos muito mais avançados que os treinadores do resto do Mundo. No futuro vão aparecer mais Mourinhos», defende Jorge Jesus, em entrevista hoje publicada no jornal espanhol Marca."

Tenham cuidado com o que dizem e com o que escrevem...