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adamnbarrett wrote:To be honest I have not got a clue. But we've been going there for the last few years. I think it must be the training at altitude because I've seen the camp and it's located by the mountains. Of course there is less altitude and therefore less oxygen in the air. So when the players train at normal level again they are used to training at levels where there is less oxygen and so it is easier for the players because they are not having to use up as much oxygen and therefore do not get as tired. Marathon runners train this way.

BTW I'm studying altitude training for me PE GCSE, that's where the above content came from

Nice one Adam, pretty interesting, never thought of that 

adamnbarrett wrote:To be honest I have not got a clue. But we've been going there for the last few years. I think it must be the training at altitude because I've seen the camp and it's located by the mountains. Of course there is less altitude and therefore less oxygen in the air. So when the players train at normal level again they are used to training at levels where there is less oxygen and so it is easier for the players because they are not having to use up as much oxygen and therefore do not get as tired. Marathon runners train this way.

BTW I'm studying altitude training for me PE GCSE, that's where the above content came from

  I never tried at P.E in school, it was sh.ite, we played fu.cking hockey and cricket most of the time, not to mention i was also sh.ite at sport back then, i was a right chubby b@stard   i ended up being in the bottom set so dropped it after year 9.

Decent bit of info you provided there, ive never actually thought about why we train in switzerland before to be honest

Bad Bob wrote:Is it about fitness training at altitude or are there more important factors?

I'm curious!   

Rafa wants to check out some watches for his missus . Simple as.                     


                                                                                     

woof woof ! wrote:

Bad Bob wrote:Is it about fitness training at altitude or are there more important factors?

I'm curious!   

Rafa wants to check out some watches for his missus . Simple as.                     


                                                                                     

...........and get cheap toblerone, don't they also have those purple Milka cows there too?   

mikopool wrote:Over here in Canada alot of professional teams head for the high altitude areas exactly for the reasons adamnbarrett said, also any team playing against the Denver Broncos (american football team) always seem to lose the pace and steam in the second half when playing in Denver, whereas Denver looks ready to go another hour once the game is done (due to training there at all time). It takes alot of time to have it pay off to the extent of having a Denver Bronco sort of advantage, but alot of people notice a difference to stamina after just a couple days.

I've never noticed that about the Nuggets   

anti-hero wrote:Simple.

Because Switzerland reminds Rafa of Spain.

What, with all the mountains and yodelers and all that.


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Ask Sabre. He knows.

If he wants to go somewhere that reminds him of Spain, why doesn't he go to, well, Spain 

Then again, he could always just go to that restaurant called 'La Tasca' in Liverpool cuty centre 

Effes wrote:Did Rafa start this or Houllier?

It was Houllier that started the Swiss trips, we also used to play some German (from near the Swiss boarder) teams under Houllier but Rafa trains them harder than GH did 

I know it's in German but it's from 2002