Working with the countries most promising young football players at Arsenal academy with Paudie Roche (Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach at Arsenal Football Club)

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach at Arsenal Football Club, Paudie Roche.  Unlike other part 2's I have done in the past, this one with Paudie comes only weeks after part 1 because of the response we both had on the back of that. This part 2 is a little different, however. Paudie was kind enough to put a tweet out and ask for questions which listeners wanted answering, so this episode is a Q&A based on listener questions.

I hope you enjoy this episode with Paudie Roche.

• Who is Paudie Roche (education, background, current role)
• S&C in foundation phase (Culture Coach)
  • Role of play
  • Exposure to different sports
• Olympic lifting and its role at Arsenal (Luke Jenkinson)
  • Programming
  • Progressions and regressions
  • Time investment
• Individualisation training (Lassi Laakso)
  • Are we slowing down progress by individualising too much?
• Speed training at Arsenal academy (Neil Scanlon)
  • Structure
  • Focus
  • Planning and programming
• Velocity based training (Ben Sayers)
  • Thoughts on VBT
  • Do you use it? If not, why not
• Internal and external load monitoring at Arsenal academy (Conor Cantwell)
• Biggest challenges faced as a newly qualified S&C coach (Jordan Fentiman)

Paudie can be found on Twitter @coach_roche_

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Enjoy

PP