An hour and a quarter to start demanding physical workout
Atletico Madrid returned to training after a day and a half of rest granted by Diego Pablo Simeone.
The 25 players who returned to the training camp on Monday evening were up early on Tuesday for the first working session on the football field in Los Angeles de San Rafael, which lasted for an hour and a quarter. At 7:40 hours Atletico started the demanding training aimed to work the speed, strength and aggressiveness.
Pulido and Pizzi were the players who remained in Madrid. The training began with 20 minutes of physical work for everyone, including three goalkeepers, Courtois, Asenjo and Bono. Then the goalkeepers did some work with Pablo Vercellone as the group performed a ball control and touch exercise to move on to another two against two with two poles on each side as a goalkeeper, looking to finish by scoring a goal.
After this 20 minutes spell, Oscar Ortega prepared various exercises in which groups were rotating. In two of the exercises, the players had to defend a goal, another was running with a weight vest on before taking it off and shooting at goal as well as doing a circuit of jumps and speed controls measured by computer. They also had to perform a slalom with a weight vest and shoot at goal. The last one was sprinting and jumping to head the ball again with a weight vest on. This phase lasted 25 minutes to finish off the first session of the day. The second working session of the day is in the gym for an hour divided into two groups.
