Hansi Flick will turn Barcelona players into BEASTS, and you've never seen anything like it! Insane electric shock therapy, non-stop strength and cardio training, the most grueling preseason - all of this awaits Barca! Flick will make it tougher than SPARTA for his players and you'll see why! Let's get started!
What's special about Hansi Flick's training?
Hansi Flick will make Barcelona players really SUFFER for the sake of results! Jordi Gil, a journalist for the Spanish newspaper Sport, writes that the new Barca coach considers physical fitness to be a key aspect of his football. “He wants his players to be like motorbikes so they can completely press and drown their opponents,” Gil notes.
Under Flick's management, Bayern Munich and the Germany national team always showed incredibly effective counter-pressing, and Barcelona will take up his ideas with great joy!
Under Xavi Hernandez in the 2023/24 season, Barça ranked second in La Liga in passes per defensive action with an average of 9.6 and had the highest pressing intensity of 52.89%. So, Flick will urge his players to press their opponents even more!
To do so, his players need to have perfect endurance and physical strength, so the Catalan club has already sent Flick some help! In addition to bringing his own staff, Hansi will be provided with one of the world's best fitness coaches! Someone who will transform Barcelona into a stamina machine that no club in the world can compete with!
Who will help Flick at Barcelona?
Julio Tous - do you know who that is? He’s the one who worked side by side with Antonio Conte at Juventus, Chelsea, Inter and the Italy national team. And as we all know, Conte's teams are famous for their incredible physical fitness and plow the field until the final whistle!
Tous has already worked at Barcelona in the 2003/04 season. His stay at the Camp Nou was not very long, but extremely effective - Tous introduced an innovative training methodology and reduced player injuries by 40%! This is exactly what Barca need after the 2023/24 season, as they were close to a disastrous one for the giants in terms of injuries!
Thanks to Tous' work, the Blaugrana began to lose their players less often and they also missed fewer days due to injuries and produced longer winning streaks on the pitch!
Julio has many different revolutionary methods of physical and neurobiological training for players. Tous can talk about his training for hours on podcasts! His knowledge is just incredible! He never stops and is always learning new techniques, which he then uses in his work. Curiosity is key for Julio:
“Curiosity for me is the most important skill you must have as a professional. Because if you lose curiosity and are eager to know new things you’re dead!”
Tous' model is based on exercises to increase strength and power, elaborate stretches, and progressive recovery systems.
Tous provides a lot of exercises with simulators and even uses an unusual technique called “Whole body vibrations”. Training using whole-body vibrations creates mechanical vibrations in the players' bodies using platforms, cables and dumbbells.
Tous uses a vibration amplitude of 4 mm and a frequency that goes from 26 Hz (for recovery) to 35 Hz (for strengthening). “These sinusoidal vibrations provoke a fast and short change in muscle length.
This way, an increase in muscle activity is usually observed with values higher than those recorded during voluntary muscular activity. This method may induce improvements in strength and power performance similar to those observed with regular strength training,” Tous writes in his program.
Don't be surprised when you see Barcelona players electrocuting themselves and turning into football beasts – This is all Hansi Flick and his assistants’ idea!
But, come on, you don't think that's the end of it, do you?
The Catalan team’s new coach will also add a lot of other strength training! We all remember what muscular beasts Bayern's players became under Flick, especially Alphonso Davies, Leon Goretzka, and Robert Lewandowski!
“Hansi Flick believes that the Barça team lacks physicality and wants to enhance that. This aspect will be crucial for his project. He will focus mainly during the pre-season and will assess using high level technology,” Relevo journalist Alex Pintanel reports.
We don't envy Barcelona's players... They will be facing Spartan challenges all season long! They’ll begin during the preseason in the United States this summer.
And if you think Flick will stop there, you are so hugely mistaken!
How will Flick upgrade Barcelona players?
Barcelona players are well aware of what they need to do on vacation - to work out like they've never worked out before! Lamine Yamal was the first to realize this, and a few hours after the announcement of Flick's appointment, he was already working on his muscles!