Marquette's New Plan to Combat the Flu

[DanMcQ]

Marquette's Matthews and McNeal - new training method

"I'd love to be able to play and never get tired," said a sweat-covered Matthews after exiting the chamber set up in a back corner of the Al McGuire Center weight room. "But the smallest advantage we'll take. If we're 10 percent better at fighting through fatigue and 10 percent less tired [late in games], then that could be big for us."

These are desperate times, men...

[Elvado]

The real problem is that Marquette schduled flu inoculations, but as usual James took all the shots.

[HoyaFanNY]

now that's funny

[ExcitableBoy]

Let's not act like Marquette reinvented the wheel here. Training at altitude isn't exactly as novel an approach as that Globe article makes it seem.

In fact, recent trends have moved away from training at altitude and instead have focused on "Train low, sleep high" because training low allows more work on increasing stamina, VO2 max, etc, while sleeping high still confers much of the same benefits as training high. (My guess, though, is that providing altitude tents for college athletes either is prohibitively expensive or against some NCAA rule.)

[vcjack]

excitableboy said:

Let's not act like Marquette reinvented the wheel here. Training at altitude isn't exactly as novel an approach as that Globe article makes it seem.

In fact, recent trends have moved away from training at altitude and instead have focused on "Train low, sleep high" because training low allows more work on increasing stamina, VO2 max, etc, while sleeping high still confers much of the same benefits as training high. (My guess, though, is that providing altitude tents for college athletes either is prohibitively expensive or against some NCAA rule.)

I know that the Olympics and other organizations treat oxygen/altitude tents on the same level as steriods for runners and cyclists (perhaps Nevada Hoya can chime in here with any further detail) So I'd imagine the NCAA's probably prohibit them too

Speaking of cool training regiments, I can't find the link, but I read a little while ago that Oregon's football team was providing laser eye exercizes for their QB's and it supposedly strengthens their periphrial vision