Official Profile of the Performance Department ⚽️🏋🏼♀️📊 @Udinese_1896
Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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We are proud to share the official channel of the Udinese Calcio Performance Department. Follow us to gain insight into our daily performance operations, cutting-edge monitoring strategies, rehabilitation , and how we optimize player availability
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🩸 BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION (BFR)
Can we stimulate muscle adaptations with low mechanical loads?
BFR combines low-load resistance exercise (20–30% 1RM) with partial restriction of venous return,increasing metabolic stress and providing a stimulus for muscle hypertrophy & strength
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Return to Performance ⚽️
Adductor longus rehab in a centre-back: beyond isolated strength.
🔹 Injury-mechanism replication
🔹 Strength manifestations
🔹 Duels & defensive actions
🔹 Playful tasks socio-affective
Restore capacity. Rebuild football actions. Prepare to compete.
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HAMSTRING REHAB | From RTP to performance ⚽️
🔹 Iterative method: striker-specific actions (Solé, 2003).
🔹 Running mechanics: low-hurdle step frequency + 30 m accelerations at 85–90% MSS (Mendiguchia).
🔹 Top-up:11–20 s box-to-box HSR, intermittent running (Buchheit & Laursen).
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Udinese Calcio Performance Department ⚫️⚪️ retweeted
New research paper published 📚 @Udinese_1896 medical staff & @udiperformance
researchgate.net/publication…
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Multidisciplinary work in rehab and reconditioning of ACL (hth grafted ) with our player Zanoli .
🩺medical staff
🏋🏼♂️performance staff
⚽️technical staff
👥sharing process and decisions
#fromrehabtoperformance
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ISOMETRIC STIMULUS IN EARLY ADDUCTOR REHAB ⚽️
Early rehab ≠ avoiding load.
Isometrics provide a controlled way to introduce strength stimulus, monitor symptoms and progressively increase load tolerance.
Build capacity. Control pain. Optimise recovery.
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Eccentric strength → deceleration → 90° COD.Flywheel develops eccentric force capacity. Linear + rotational decel exposes the athlete to the braking/ reorientation demands of football. Finally, 90° COD slam ball adds a plyometric/reactive component:
Brake → control → redirect
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📚New research accepted for publish on scientific Journal @udiperformance + medical staff @Udinese_1896
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Copenhagen eccentric on Roman chair ⚽️A ⬆️-demand stimulus for the hip adductors, with the Copenhagen Adduction showing >100% MVIC peak activation of the Adductor Longus.
⬆️eccentric load + lengthened position + pelvic control.
📚 Serner et al. (2014), BJSM; Ishøi et al. 2016
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LIVE GPS MONITORING 📡⚽️
Live GPS allows us adapt exposure in real time according to player’s profile,previous load,max velocity, rehab stage.
📌GPS becomes a decision-support tool, not just a reporting system.
🔑Individualisation+live monitoring =better decisions.
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Rehab is not only about physical recovery⚽️😆
Social interaction, motivation, confidence and emotional responses matter.
Working with 2 players allows us to use collaboration, challenges and controlled competition to make rehab more engaging and closer to the demands of sport
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FOOT CORE × RETURN TO PLAY ⚽️
In a 4th metatarsal rehab, the goal isn’t simply to wait for healing. It’s to progressively rebuild the foot’s capacity to: Absorb, Stabilize & Produce force. The key is progressive mechanical exposure + load management.
Jaffri et al.,(2023)
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CMJ at MD-1 ⚽️📊
The goal isn’t to achieve the highest jump 24h before competition.
It’s to understand the player’s neuromuscular status relative to their individual baseline and recent trend.
🔹 Jump Height🔹 RSI-mod🔹 FT/CT🔹 Eccentric duration 🔹 Individual changes
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Performance isn’t about training harder after a match.
It’s about knowing who should train, how much and when.
Our Post Match Strength Decision Model integrates:
⚽ Match exposure
📅 Turnaround
👤 Player profile
💪 Tissue capacity
📊 Readiness markers
Minimum effective dose.
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Udinese Calcio Performance Department ⚫️⚪️ retweeted
Movement preparation , thoracic mobility and cross chain (anterior) stretching
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🚀 Speed starts with horizontal force.
Resisted sprints + sled pushes can help:
✅ Improve acceleration
✅ Increase horizontal force production
✅ Enhance RFD
✅ Optimize sprint mechanics
✅ Reach top speed sooner
Train force where performance happens: horizontally.
#Sprint
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