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2 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Really? Spank my ass and call me a bitch, it will make you feel great ;)

Apologies for being ridiculously over the top and comparing football with the rise of the German empire, but that is why Germany almost conquered Europe, because no one had the back bone to say to Hitler "although we know you mean well, don't you think your going a tad far with the whole invasion stuff"

Just because they are in charge, doesn't make them right. 

If my boss told me at work to go for a nap I'd......to be fair I'd probably snap his hand off, but that's not the point. 

Reductio ad Hitlerum mate... standard online discussion tactic! :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

However I think in this case if Clement can provide a decent basis for it then I would suggest it's a fair technique... Also seems to me complaining about little things like that might not help your chances of getting game time...

Of course if Pearce thinks he's too good to do something which Sergio Ramos does then fair enough...

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1 hour ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Honestly it was exactly that same rumour.

I heard he introduced afternoon naps after morning training and lunch.

Pearce was having none of it and they fell out over it.

It is such a ridiculous rumour that it could only ever happen at Derby. Clement will have been used to afternoon naps at Madrid. If it is true I wouldn't blame Pearce in the slightest.

 

They do it in life generally is Spain ......................its called a siesta. Trouble is we are playing in England.

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2 hours ago, cheron85 said:

Reductio ad Hitlerum mate... standard online discussion tactic! :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

However I think in this case if Clement can provide a decent basis for it then I would suggest it's a fair technique... Also seems to me complaining about little things like that might not help your chances of getting game time...

Of course if Pearce thinks he's too good to do something which Sergio Ramos does then fair enough...

Does this mean we are signing Denis Law's grandson, Godwin?

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3 hours ago, cheron85 said:

You wouldn't blame Pearce for not doing something his manager told him to do?

I mean each to their own but if my manager asks me to do something which he believes is beneficial to me as a worker I'm gonna do it... even if I think it's daft...

You'd let your manager dictate your bedtime? Pearce is a footballer, not a toddler. If he performs as well as the little catamites who've been to beddy-byes for an hour or two in the afternoon training session I fail to see how it's an issue.

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It seems to be an approach that works for a lot of athletes. If Clement feels that it helps with his approach to training then he should be free to implement it without one of the playing squad kicking up a fuss. There's a lot more science to it than having a snooze in the afternoon.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32276547

 

At 1pm every afternoon, the hustle and bustle of Real Madrid's Valdebebas training ground grinds to a halt and the facility resembles a ghost town.

A silence descends over the complex for the following two hours as players and staff close their eyes and drift into a siesta before waking and resuming their day - but they're not sleeping on the job.

The scene is a window into football's relentless pursuit of marginal gains as clubs across Europe turn to technology, purpose-built facilities and sleep experts to recharge their multi-million pound assets and gain a competitive advantage.

You snooze, you win

Tennis great Roger Federer and basketball star LeBron James are both advocates of sleeping for upwards of 10 hours per night  and research shows the performance benefits of proper rest for athletes.

A study by Stanford University sleep expert Cheri Mah  showed basketball players who increased their sleep duration to those levels improved shot accuracy by 9% in tests and recorded improved sprint and reaction times.

Take recovery for granted and the risks are great. One restless night is enough to weaken the immune system and increase the risk of illness. Sleep poorly for 64 hours or more and strength and power is reduced.


The brain's ability to send messages to and from different parts of the body to control movement also decreases, which impairs the sense of where limbs are positioned and the perception of strength of effort - making injuries such as ankle sprains more likely.Fatigue, often brought on by a number of games in a short period of time, increases levels of the hormone cortisol. This can then see the body begin to eat into its own protein stores and reduce a player's muscle mass, heightening the risk of strains and tears.

Helping 'owl' Bale overcome morning phobia

Those factors prompted Real's sports scientist and conditioning coach, Englishman Jack Nayler,  to invite elite sport sleep coach Nick Littlehales to the club in December 2013 to deliver a workshop to manager Carlo Ancelotti and his squad.

Littlehales began his work in the field prescribing specific mattress types to Gary Pallister and Ryan Giggs at Manchester United in the mid-1990s in a bid to cure their respective back and hamstring problems.

He has since gone on to work with the England football team, Team GB, 2012 Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and a host of Premier League clubs, including Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Southampton.

After delivering his seminar to Cristiano Ronaldo and his team-mates, Littlehales was approached by Wales forward Gareth Bale, who requested a one-on-one consultation.At Madrid, he inspected each of the 81, five-star, fingerprint-accessed bedrooms at the club's training complex to evaluate the 'sleep environment' - a term he's coined to represent the temperature, lighting, air quality, duvet-type and mattresses inside the rooms.

With Nayler and the club's doctor also present, the former Tottenham forward went through an examination to establish his body characteristics (height, weight and any injury problems), daily routines (usual wake and sleep times), activities (types/intensity of training each day), sleep habits, chronotype (the natural time he sleeps and wakes), and formulate a sleep profile - an in-depth report covering the areas in the graphic below.

"Gareth had only just joined the club and he had a lot of new stuff to deal with," Littlehales told BBC Sport. "He identifies with being an owl - he hates the mornings. He's also got a young child, which can have an effect on sleep."

Bale's biological clock - or circadian rhythm  to give it its proper title - means he naturally falls asleep and wakes up at later times, leaving his energy levels at their lowest early in the morning, before peaking in the afternoon.

It's a problem Littlehales has encountered with countless athletes and in a bid to combat disruption to the body's preset patterns - which can also occur following European fixtures which finish late in the evening - he recommends naps.

One player he worked with at Manchester City told him of his routine in the aftermath of Champions League games, which would see him stay up until 4am as he struggled to get to sleep with the adrenaline from the game still in his system.

"Your body has two in-built nap times when energy levels dip - the first between 1pm and 3pm and the second between 5pm and 7pm."He'd stay downstairs on the Xbox until the early hours. He'd fall asleep on the sofa and wake up mid-morning because he didn't have training the following day - he was completely out of sync," Littlehales said.

"Now he just works around the kick-off. Before and after the game he has a routine. If he's got a 7:45 kick off at home, his bed time is 2am. He gets up at 6:30 and has breakfast. If he's still tired, he'll have a 90-minute nap at those times and catch up with his sleep that way."

'Stay off your phone at bedtime'

At Southampton, no stone has been left unturned in the quest for a perfect night's sleep. Every morning, each member of the squad uses a bespoke wellbeing app to fill in a questionnaire on their own personal tablet given to them by the club.

Players are asked to mark their quality of sleep, mood, muscle soreness and general level of fatigue out of 10. If the level of sleep is below an individual's threshold they will begin using devices to monitor them at night.

The club's head of sports science, Alek Gross, told BBC Sport: "We do have players who have been prescribed individual sleep kits to aid their sleep throughout the week. They'll have a specific duvet and pillow thickness, perhaps blackout curtains that are specific to their needs.

 

"Temperature in hotel rooms is more of a problem. Ideally it needs to be 16-18 degrees. Players have their own room on trips now so we can really tailor to each individual.

"We advise the players against looking at mobile phones and television screens 90 minutes before bed - even the red light on your TV can affect your circadian rhythm and keep you awake."

Players also have a list of prohibited foods and drinks they are warned against consuming in the evening. Caffeine and liquids high in sugar are off the menu, as are fat-laden meals, which take longer to digest and raise body temperature, which in turn slows the process of falling to sleep. All players are given a milk-based protein drink to aid recovery and induce sleepiness.

Eat, train, sleep, repeat

Attitudes towards sleep in football are changing. Manchester United installed sleep pods at the club's Carrington training ground for players to nap in between double sessions during the summer, while Manchester City's new £200m complex has 32 en-suite bedrooms each decorated with sleep-inducing wallpaper - a light green design with ever decreasing circles.

At Liverpool, players use various types of monitoring technology to detect movement during sleep, including wrist devices and heart-rate straps.

The club's sports science consultant, Barry Drust, said: "We've adopted a lifestyle-orientated approach. It isn't standard for all the players at Liverpool to have their sleep monitored but it does happen relatively frequently with individuals, depending on the situation.

"Football is a team sport, but it's a team sport made up of individual athletes, so the philosophy at Liverpool is much more about trying to create individual strategies for individual players."

In October Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers applauded Raheem Sterling's maturity in complaining of tiredness to England boss Roy Hodgson and sitting out the 1-0 win over Estonia - it might just be a sign of things to come as players look to sleep their way to the top.

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I actually became enraged reading those links. If only I had a talent for spewing nonsensical psychobabble without bursting into fits of laughter and no morals I could be absolutely coining it. Sleep inducing ******* wallpaper! Jesus wept.

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54 minutes ago, Anon said:

You'd let your manager dictate your bedtime? Pearce is a footballer, not a toddler. If he performs as well as the little catamites who've been to beddy-byes for an hour or two in the afternoon training session I fail to see how it's an issue.

Depends on the job.

If I were a professional athlete, then yes, I would do everything my manager and fitness coaches tell me to do when it comes to looking after my body. Surely this has to do with rest and recovery and is a fitness initiative, rather than sending the kids to bed so Clement and the staff can watch what they want on tele?

If you're new to the club and there is a new man in charge, disobeying him doesn't sound like a smart move. Question it, sure, but disobeying it? Not a smart move.

Whether he performs as well or not doesn't matter. This is about who is in charge.

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13 minutes ago, Anon said:

I actually became enraged reading those links. If only I had a talent for spewing nonsensical psychobabble without bursting into fits of laughter and no morals I could be absolutely coining it. Sleep inducing ******* wallpaper! Jesus wept.

It's only just dawned on me I actually know Nick Littlehales personally, he lives round the corner from me!

He told me he was a sleep coach, who'd worked with elite athletes, just dismissed it as bs but that's him, large as life.

Believe you me @Anon, he aint coining it in as far as I can see!

One thing I would add, if you'll cheat at golf you'll cheat at anything, say no more.

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There are certainly a few question marks over our transfer policy.

A little embarrassing for us that this is the second signing in a year that has cost money and immediately gone on loan after sitting on the bench or not making the squad for six months. 

Good luck to the lad. 

 

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21 minutes ago, Anon said:

I actually became enraged reading those links. If only I had a talent for spewing nonsensical psychobabble without bursting into fits of laughter and no morals I could be absolutely coining it. Sleep inducing ******* wallpaper! Jesus wept.

I prefer Felix Magath's cheese method myself..

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1 hour ago, Anon said:

You'd let your manager dictate your bedtime? Pearce is a footballer, not a toddler. If he performs as well as the little catamites who've been to beddy-byes for an hour or two in the afternoon training session I fail to see how it's an issue.

If my manager has had extensive training and worked with some of the top talent in the world... I'd consider that maybe he knows a thing or two...

Unless you think the knowledge Pearce has gained playing at Reading is going to be more impressive?

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