Efthymios Kyprianou

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@spswgreg @LorenzoLolli28 @Aspire_Academy 🎓 Grateful also to my viva examiners, Professor Barry Drust and Dr David Low - it was an honour to meet them and discuss my research during the examination. Excited for what comes next - to keep bridging science and practice in football and beyond. ⚽️📘

🎓 Huge thanks to Professor @spswgreg for his incredible guidance, and to my supervisory team - Dr Matthew Weston and Dr @LorenzoLolli28 , for their support and insight. Grateful also to Professor Valter Di Salvo and @Aspire_Academy , where it all began.

PhD ✅ 🎓 What a journey - full of challenges, learning, and growth. Balancing full-time work across Qatar, the Emirates, Greece, Cyprus, the USA, and Saudi Arabia made it even tougher, but so rewarding. @LJMU @LJMUFootball

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@DeasunO @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform You should read more on: 1. Session types (different muscle tension). 2. Relative max intensity 3. Levels of concentration 4. How we train sub and sub sub principles in our warm ups (behaviors) 5. How to alternate spaces to achieve the physiological emphasis of each session

@efthimis400 @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform Every session contains accelerations, decelerations, COD, kicks, strides, runs and often sprints. All energy systems are in use all the time. This results in accumulated load with limited time to recover. Sorry it doesn’t make sense to me. I respect your choice however.

Here is a week plan that is used by many high level football teams. It was recently shared by @maloneperform - Question why is speed placed on MD-2 after two mod/high intense days. Why train 5 days in a row leading up to a game ? I always struggled to like this model. Pros ?

@DeasunO @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform Where the original work was never referenced!

@efthimis400 @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform PS here is where I got your graph - maloneperform.substack.com/p/how-to-imple…

@DeasunO @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform “the target is to overload a different physical component and energy system every day providing sufficient recovery time in between. All these training days have their own training load (there is not one peak during the week, every day is the relevant peak!)”

@efthimis400 @davecarolan @SimonBrundish @maloneperform Hi Efthymios, thanks for replying. I have studied T.P. and what is proposed still goes against the principles of training. It is also dated in the context of the increased match demands. A day off would be so much more beneficial. How do you target speed on -3.

@davecarolan @DeasunO @SimonBrundish @maloneperform As there was a lot of confusion on this I published a supplemental post: eksportsperformance.com/ekspjournal//d… * MD-2: Speed of Play * MD-3: Max Speed exposures

It’s been a sheep mentality @DeasunO . Personally speed exposure the furthest point from the next match and furthest from the last, that’s safe from a freshness, fitness and fatigue pov. For me MD-4 or Tuesday! As for the rest of it… it’s a framework, and who doesn’t like a framework. Takes out a lot of the need for thinking for yourself 😝

@DannyagrDanny @TacticalPad @tacticalpedia Thank you for the comment. The set up is not area specific. It could be anywhere. At the day, just happened to do it in that area, it didn’t have to do anything related with attacking the box. I hope that answer your question.

@efthimis400 @TacticalPad @tacticalpedia Great, just a question or probably and adjustment I will do, because I love the exercise. Isn’t more realistic if you go the other way? you writing Build-up but you ara attacking the box, I will go the other way! Good stuff 🙏🏻⚽️

📍Functional - Build Up (break lines) vs Pressing v2 Link to progression 1: youtube.com/watch?v=nBVWLu… 🔘Suitable for Strength day 🔘Tactical targets: Build up (break lines) vs Pressing 🔘Positional (CB - WB - WB - ST) vs CM - ST 🔘Physical: Acc/Dec @TacticalPad @tacticalpedia

Ahead of print: Inconsistent Effect of Psychometric-Scale Familiarization on the Relationship Between Ratings of Perceived Exertion & External Load Measures in Elite Youth Soccer Players by Efthymios Kyprianou, @LorenzoLolli28, Matthew Weston & @spswgreg journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

🚨 New paper from our group: 🗣️ Coaches and practitioners can quantify perceived exertion in training and match play with the CR100 irrespective of the player’s prior experience with the scale. 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.… @LorenzoLolli28 @drmweston @spswgreg

@AdinOsmanbasic @PeteJMcD I was just explaining to Pete how I helped you to step up to 1st team! I told him give me few months :)

Really excited to get to work with our players and staff #DOOP

To Sprint or Not to Sprint in Soccer: That’s the Question! - In this excellent presentation Efthymios demonstrates the importance of Max Sprinting Speed (MSS) in soccer, how to measure it, how to periodize it, and how we can train it. Find out more here 👉 tinyurl.com/2p8k42va

#isoK23 Great event - great venue - great to catch up with good friends from all around the world - great to see some of my work being shared by top practitioners.