Yo-Yo test
Monday, January 18, 2021
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Shakhtar trained in Belek on the morning of January 18
The second training day began with a Yo-Yo test to check the players’ fitness.
Endurance test
The Yo-Yo test involves players running non-stop 20-metre shuttles back and forth between two cones. Its special feature is that the time difference between the beeps decreases each time. Those who fail to do it in due time or can no longer run just get out of the test.
For testing, the Miners divided into two groups. Heorhii Sudakov won in the first group, and Manor Solomon won in the second group.
“I worked on this for a long time when I was a kid. My father is a fitness coach, so I’ve done it with him many times. Maybe that's why I won today,” said Manor Solomon. “But it was very difficult - a real battle. Of course, I'm really exhausted, doing it for 20 minutes at a high pace is tough. Is it the hardest part of this training camp? I don't know as we haven’t had other parts yet, so I wouldn't say so. Other parts means games. When it’s a game, sometimes it’s much harder because you need to fit yourself into the game and it’s not easy. So this is very hard but it will make us win the games. We will do our best to get ready for the league and the Europa League.”
Endurance test
The Yo-Yo test involves players running non-stop 20-metre shuttles back and forth between two cones. Its special feature is that the time difference between the beeps decreases each time. Those who fail to do it in due time or can no longer run just get out of the test.
For testing, the Miners divided into two groups. Heorhii Sudakov won in the first group, and Manor Solomon won in the second group.
“I worked on this for a long time when I was a kid. My father is a fitness coach, so I’ve done it with him many times. Maybe that's why I won today,” said Manor Solomon. “But it was very difficult - a real battle. Of course, I'm really exhausted, doing it for 20 minutes at a high pace is tough. Is it the hardest part of this training camp? I don't know as we haven’t had other parts yet, so I wouldn't say so. Other parts means games. When it’s a game, sometimes it’s much harder because you need to fit yourself into the game and it’s not easy. So this is very hard but it will make us win the games. We will do our best to get ready for the league and the Europa League.”
This is very hard but it will make us win the games. We will do our best to get ready for the league and the Europa League
Heorhii Sudakov is also modest and does not overestimate the importance of his best result in the Yo-Yo test:
“We had such tests at the Academy, but I never won it, I never stood out in terms of endurance actually. I don’t know how I managed to win it today. Probably, I showed my character and the will to win. Plus the fact that I’m a young player on the training camp with the first team definitely made me prove myself.”
“We had such tests at the Academy, but I never won it, I never stood out in terms of endurance actually. I don’t know how I managed to win it today. Probably, I showed my character and the will to win. Plus the fact that I’m a young player on the training camp with the first team definitely made me prove myself.”
The fact that I’m a young player on the training camp with the first team definitely made me prove myself
We want to mention that in total the players spent ninety minutes on the field. The goalkeepers who worked individually with Antonio Ferreira, have trained for longer - about 110 minutes.
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