Are our players overtrained?
I read something on a running website recently, the gist of which was that if you do great in training but consistently disappoint in races you may be training hard too often and not letting your body recover properly (which is when the gains and biomechanical adaptations in response to training stimulii actually happen).
I recall a Wenger quote about how Arsenal's traditional austrian pre-season "killed arshavin a little bit" and wonder about how injury prone we are. I start to suspect that wenger has players doing too much - rather than too little- in the Colney Creche, and that might even explain why certain players keep getting selected and others don't - they look good in (brutal) training to the myopic one while others (typically those who have trained under different managers) dont fit in - I'm thinking Arshavin and maybe Podolski here.
I dont have any evidence as such for this but if anyone has noticed anything that supports or refutes the theory Id love to know
