There have been some major concerns with the physical preparations of Barcelona in recent seasons. Constant injuries and physical issues have popped up from time to time, and they have severely damaged the team’s sporting objectives. However, with Hansi Flick now in charge at Barcelona, the aim is to eradicate those problems.
The German coach, formerly the manager of a sextuple-winning Bayern Munich, believes that physical training and intense workouts are key for these professional footballers. Beyond just his stern and strict persona is a man who has principles and codes that must be followed by his players.
At Barcelona, he is exactly the kind of coach that is perhaps needed more than anything else. It continues to show in his training plans and methodologies that he is quite specific about the way his players are to prepare. It is even further highlighted by his latest addition to the Barcelona team’s training plans.
According to AS, the new Barcelona coach has now introduced weigh-ins for the players both before and after every training session. This would mean that each and every player in the team will need to be weighed both before they start training on any given day, and then right afterwards as well.
The point of doing this is to ensure that the ideal weight is maintained by the Barcelona players. Even a slight difference from what is expected of them will result in a more careful assessment of their training routine and they will be put through extra work to get to that ideal point.
However, this is not the first kind of innovation that Flick has brought with him to Barça. He has previously already introduced dental examinations as well, and they will now be coupled with these weigh-in requirements as well to create a very thorough examination of the players.
For Flick, the goal is simple and effective all the way through. He believes that footballers should be professional 24/7, and that translates into the way he is monitoring his players. With the season now closer than ever to starting, it seems that there is a method to Flick’s madness and his uncommon obsession with fitness as well as proven by positive results in preseason so far.
