Specific Training Quotes

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do.

My training is very specific to my sport, so it's a lot of fast, explosive movements. It's very pertinent to exactly what I do on the football field, which is fast burst in short spaces.

But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.

Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the centre-midfielders. It's all specifically tailored for me. For example, my drills are high speed. It's all about trying to break the line with a sharp sprint.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.