Pintus puts Madrid to the limit

The technical body of Real Madrid He decided to measure the maximum resistance of his players. For it, Antonio Pintus prepared a test that had been used during the first stage of Ancelotti and the first years of Zidane, but that had been lost in recent seasons. To do this, the players had to do an internationalized test in which they had to go from one point to another in a specified time. That time is getting shorter and shorter, so the break is getting smaller and smaller. The test ends once the player does not reach the established point in the marked time.

These tests were complemented with a Portable ergospirometer that allows you to measure stress tests outside the laboratory. It is an oxygen mask that incorporates a device that measures certain parameters related to performance in real time. Experts advise elite athletes to use it because allows data to be collected in circumstances closer to reality, since in the laboratory everything is very controlled.

This is just another example of the policy that Antonio Pintus has implemented in this preseason. The idea is not to stay in physically preparing the players, but in taking them to the limit of their capacities. This is achieved not only with highly demanding exercises: also by measuring the parameters necessary to determine if the athlete is capable of increasing the workload or has reached its limit.

Although the first sessions are being tough, the players are responding perfectly. They are aware of what happened last year with injuries and neither they nor the coaching staff want it to be repeated. Therefore, they know that it is very important to work now and reap the fruits throughout the season.