Phoenix fitness

Phoenix fitness

Great article on the new fitness coach at the Phoenix

yeah sounds really good! he's worked with Blackburn, so he must be awesome

Quite a coup that someone with that amount of top level experience in the UK moves to NZ for "lifestyle" reasons, misses football involvement so much and finds the Phoenix......

Now, if only Kevin Phillips felt the same.....

But in seriousness, to have someone like Ed involved in such a crucial area as fitness and conditioning for our mighty Phoenix and the luxury of an already assembled squad and a full pre-season this year.....

Wow, last year was amazing but this year is already looking so much better...

Wow, this is a real coup, Terry has had this guy fall in his lap, you would be hard pressed to find someone of this calibre AND be able to bring them to NZ.

It's all coming together!

Good stuff. We suffered away from home in the heat/after the travel etc. last year so this could help a lot.

Not suprising to know that Lochhead is the fittest of the bunch. To be as fit as a prem league player when he's only been in pre season for a few weeks is bloody impressive though.

Any thoughts on the most unfit? :P

that is good news,news that probably should have been announced on the phoenix website about 4 weeks ago,not via a newspaper article.

Yeah - that is true. Wondering why it took this long. Though I guess they wanted to see how he actually was before 100% committing.

In the first training Covs looked the most unfit by far...but guess he is a bit of an oldie now haha so bit unfair to judge on the first training of pre pre season.

was down at training yesterday and saw this guy operating, seemed all class and the boys looked to be responding well to his regimes and techniques.

I wonder what he would have thought of the pie-eater.

I like what he says about fitness training using the ball. Of course there is no getting away from having to do the hard physical yards but the more of this that can be combined with an element of ball skill the better I think players are prepared for having to perform when under a combination of physical and competitive pressure. You can see this in the great teams that always seem to come through in the last 10 miniutes - even when exhausted they can maintain their skill level.

could be part of the reason he left...aside from the fact he was utter sh*t most of the time

Nice item on TV3 news tonight. All about the new fitness guy. showed the lads at training and interviews with Paston and Ferrante....hope they put it up on www.tv3.co.nz

Anyone know the training schedule for the next week. I'd like to go along to one or two - depending on how my petrol tank goes.

I wouldnt bother you will probably fail the pee test at the start.

me? I'll have you know I am drug free! I was referring to my car, the rip off price of petrol and pay day not till next week!

The guy's pedigree and attitude is really impressive - can only help to raise the Nix to the next level.

TVNZ and TV3 both have their items up on the website now.

Those segments weren't filmed in november were they because he had a class mo.