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⚽️ Head of High Performance @lexingtonsportingclub
🇲🇹 fmr Malta Olympic Committee Board
🎓 Ph.D @yourstmarys @stmarys_sandc
🇧🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷3x Olympic Coach

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Hard work never stops! 💪
We keep pushing and getting stronger every single day.
Forza City Girls! Let's show them what we're made of! 💥⚡️

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Women’s football: what separates top-half teams from the bottom half? Faster, fitter and stronger for their size.

New paper out in led by @nmcsportsperformance as part of his DProf. He tested 87 players from all eight clubs in the Maltese Women’s Premier League, midway through the season.

Top-half players were quicker over 10 m and 30 m and hit higher top speeds in matches. They covered 45% more on the Yo-Yo IR1, jumped 4.6 cm higher and pulled 9% more force per kilo on the mid-thigh pull. Raw force, body mass and BMI were similar in both halves.

Anaerobic speed reserve showed the biggest gap of anything we measured. But sprint time lined up more closely with jump height and strength per kilo than with ASR. My take is on slide 7: use ASR, just never on its own.

It’s a snapshot, so these are associations, not proof that any one quality wins matches. Slide 8 covers what it can’t tell you.

Save this for your next testing day. Citation in the carousel.

Which of these do you test in your squad right now?

#womensfootball #sportscience #strengthandconditioning #femaleathlete #femalefootball

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Every day, every session the Senior squad is putting in the work! 🦁💪

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Happy Birthday to our very own Nigel McCarthy!

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never outworked 🫡

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#femaleathlete #combatstrengthtraining #strengthandconditioning #femalefighter #gym

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Step by step under the guidance of our technical team ⚽️💪

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The Valletta FC Women’s Team are working hard in the gym as pre-season preparations continue ahead of the new season ⚪️🔴

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Nigel McCarthy, il-physical trainer ta’ Valletta FC, tkellem ma’ TVMsport dwar kif għaddejjin is-sessjonijiet ta’ taħriġ u kif it-tim kollu qed jaħdem flimkien ⚽️

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Proud of this Valletta FC Women's Team🦁❤️

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The Valletta FC Women’s Team swapped the pitch for the sand this morning as they continued putting in the work. ☀️

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The Valletta FC Women’s Team took their training session to the beach this morning, putting in the work in a very different setting! 💪🏼☀️

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