Matějovský Speaks Highly About Weather
Twenty-two football players of Mladá Boleslav absorb training doses prescribed by Dušan Uhrin in several stages in the sports centre in Nymburk on these days. This is a usual picture of winter preparation focused on improvement of physical shape. When compared with preceding years, this year's winter stay in Nymburk is more pleasant thanks to surprising absence of frost and snow. Marek Matějovský also confirms it.
"We get up before eight and our masseur goes to wake up players by individual rooms so that nobody could oversleep," started Marek Matějovský describing a training day. And what will happen if the masseur oversleeps? "I may not oversleep, this has not happened me yet," asserts the masseur of the players of Mladá Boleslav, Václav Kubíček, very convincingly. The players come individually to breakfast scheduled at eight and some of them have a snooze even after breakfast. "I usually browse Internet on a computer and search for news in domestic and foreign football. I start with our club site and continue with iDnes server," said Matějovský. He has not too much time because the first training stage focused mostly on endurance starts already at ten.
The players have lunch from twelve and set off for the second training stage at three p.m. On Tuesday, they practised endurance on a marked track in a local park while they played a modelled match on Wednesday. "We jog very much during the training camp in Nymburk," says Matějovský with a resigned voice as he is aware of the fact that endurance training is necessary during preparation for the spring part of season.
Which stage is harder, the morning or afternoon one? "There is no difference between them in strain. However, we have an advantage in really extraordinarily favourable weather this year so that we can practise on natural grass. It is much better than artificial pitches," praises Matějovský the favour of the weather. The players undergo regeneration in the pool or in sauna from half past four till half past five p. m. "I omit the pool on these days because I am grazed or rather burnt from artificial pitch from the hall tournament in Sazka Arena and I do not want my sores to weep and prolong healing," explained Matějovský.
The players have a while of leisure time before they set off for the fourth training stage in a bodybuilding gym. They managed to watch a match of the Nymburk basketball players on Tuesday but they had to be present in the bodybuilding gym precisely at half past seven before end of the match, just like on any other day of the training camp. "We have official lights-out at half past ten but I manage to fall asleep even before eleven." Before he falls asleep, he makes a phone call to his girlfriend to ask how is his son and also to the parents. His father is interested in the progress of preparation. No wonder, he was the first Marek's coach.
