I tried a Premier League football transfer medical

right sorry are you

kidding me mate yeah that's ridiculous

that's literally ridiculous yeah

that's done that's it we're going with

that 100.

hello and welcome to another video and

we are in manchester we are back at the

radcliff group because today i'm going

to be doing a premier league medical

let's go

so simple premise when a premier league

team signed a player so for example may

not just on anthony right for like 85

million by the way probably the worst

signing in english history they undergo

a medical so he would have phoned into

man united or to manchester they take

and they go for a series of like medical

tests exams to make sure there are no

underlying issues there vo2 max etc they

say yeah all good and then he signs i'm

going to be doing that exact test today

so we are here i'm scared let's head in

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we're in jake what is happening today

what are we doing so today we're going

to mock up a uh football medical so

we'll go through all the stuff that we'd

look to go through with the athletes

coming into clinic we're going to break

it down into five key aspects range of

movement rate force development deep

force we'll then look into some more of

the vo2 max testing and the lactase

testing for endurance so throughout

those first three concepts which will be

done with myself we're looking at any

abnormalities um from one side to the

other that kind of looks at you know

players that will be predisposed to

injury so we've got to make sure that

we're aware of everything going on we'll

then go into the endurance stuff from

the lactator that will be done by the

sports scientist so working as a

multi-disciplinary team here yeah that's

why i'm particularly dreading like i

know i don't know

i'm sure you've got like a leaderboard

but i feel like this is going to set a

new record for like the

cardio rescue injury

we'll go through some benchmarks no

pressure okay

let's begin

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all right first and foremost looking at

observations so looking at kind of

musculature seeing if there's any

imbalances anything that i need to be

aware of i want you to come and touch

your toes for me matt

as we're dropping down you see right

sides

lifting up there's increased tone here

and you can see that sij's a little bit

stuck as it rises up come and bring

yourself back up for me so the tone in

the left hand side isn't as great as

when you come over to that

left hand side and you can see the right

side rises up and you've got increased

foam there and again nice and relaxed

come and bring that right knee up

towards your chest

and back down so you can see how you

putting all your weight through that

left hand side and back up again for me

just so we can compare

and you can see how my left thumb is

just dropping down and moving nice and

clean and back down for me

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so

obviously gone through stage one looks

all the range of movement stuff with

regards to that obviously there's a few

areas of tightness kind of predisposed

with you know previous injuries so from

your triple jump days that kind of right

right side you've got tightness in that

back that's obviously going to be a

compensation strategy and obviously the

hip flexors as well from the trickle

jumping days potentially or whether it's

to do with you know power lifting yeah

it's going to be kind of like a causal

factor

we're now going to look at the strength

stuff so see if there's any

discrepancies from there i'm going to

use the handheld dynamometer now so this

is going to look at strength but it's

also going to break it down into you

know peak force and rate of force

production so they're two really

important things when it comes to sport

and what we're going to do is going to

get you in uh laying on your front we're

going to look at leg leg flexion leg

extension you know almost as if you're

replicating kicking the ball

good push push push push push keep it

going keep it going all the way all the

way

weak my hamstrings are week okay so no i

say we'll really say that okay

calibrating again

and when you're ready

go on you push push push push classy all

the way away keep it going keep going

three

two

one that feels pathetic very good come

on push push push push good keep going

keep it going all the way all the way

try and drive that heel switch boom

let's go let's go let's go keep again

keep going all the way

left side's weak mate all right

drive drive drive drive keep it going

keep it going keep going

class keep going keep going three

two

one

sorry again looking at hip flexor rather

than lower back strength next time

keep going keep going all the way all

the way keep it going three two one and

relax i'll see you so just looking at

the results on here uh we can obviously

see rate of force reduction is quite

equal both sides but then when it comes

to that you know peak force you're

stronger on that left side as opposed to

that right which could show you know the

last six months of training you know

looking at that left hand side focusing

on that left hand side

what we'd also want to kind of look at

is your ability to disassociate muscle

groups so it's looking at the kinetic

control philosophy okay whereby

obviously there's a few compensation

strategies when we're doing some of that

testing yeah so whether it shows a true

true result or whether there's other

elements that are you know kicking in

which would then predispose to injury

having done all the assessment based

stuff in the uh treatment rooms we'll go

through to the gym now looking at more

functional movement patterns so the big

one that we're looking at is the kaiser

squat so it's that ability to generate

force for a triple extension pattern

okay so this right obviously the higher

you set the resistance the more ability

you have to bring that big power up yeah

newton's law forces mass times

acceleration the more mass you do the

quicker the acceleration the more cost

you're able to produce

as well i love it

ross park needs peak power so the record

they've had is 3 000 peak power so

straight away that's the goal i'm

beating i'm not leaving to our beating

so we're looking at setting the

resistance dropping down underneath feet

shoulder width apart

okay get yourself set

after you're positioning you're going to

drop down into that optimum position

that we're looking at so it's you know

exploding out of the blocks when we're

doing a sprint so you're looking at

driving up and getting that as high peak

power as you can

16 16 26 though

jake's going straight in with a big 16

26. how much would that play into

you know medical obviously you're

assessing like you know injury risk and

underlying problems would you also be

assessing performance to an extent you

won't forget yeah absolutely because if

you're not going to get paid the big

bucks if you're not able to produce are

you so that's why they do testing

three and a half k

on the market there's gonna be some big

big money bids coming in

dropping down into that squat position

oh i'm getting close

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come on that's the nicest feeling just

releasing all that pressure off my

shoulder

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the thing is yeah you can go beyond you

can go up on your toes aren't you yeah

and because of my achilles i'm too

scared to do that if i was able to go up

on my toes i think i could because i'm

having to like stop myself at the top

yeah i reckon i'd be pushing around in

this 4k you know really so yeah because

i'm missing that hold it 3200

well i'm not i'm not i'm too scared to

go on my toes

suspicious probably

team yeah i hate this

they got five thousand five thousand

yeah

team so they're sponsored by kaiser so

they do a lot of work with them so we

had uh one of the guys from kaiser come

in and tell us that you know they can

hit 5000.

i think right give me like another month

or like when my achilles is 100

the ability to go up on my toes i think

yeah

i reckon 5ks on the horizon all dude you

got the wrestled on our machine

it's good enough for me class right

should we head over for the a2 max stuff

so now we're going to look at doing the

endurance aspects we've just done the

power output we're looking at vo2 max

and lactate testing so stewart's going

to be leading through yeah

i'm yep

okay so remind me uh your name matt

matt what's her name is mauricio

m-o-r-s-i-a

uh is there any history of heart disease

in your immediate family no are you

suffering from any infectious skin

diseases or blood infections such as

hepatitis b or hiv no are you taking any

medication no

is there anything to your knowledge that

may prevent you from participating in

the testing today have you consumed

alcohol in the last 24 hours what would

you say your diet's been over the past

two days before average good or

excellent uh average

perfect okay okay right so if i die

europe's gonna do it yeah i said do you

exactly know what you're gonna be doing

very vaguely we'll do a quick warm-up

because the test itself is quite

progressive in nature um so you'll do

about 10 minutes just easy pedaling then

we'll jump you

10 minutes is such a long ago and then

what you'll do is you'll do four minute

stages where the watts will increase by

20 watts is it is standard like how do

you what's the starting point it's a

baseline standard but yeah there is some

recent research like guidelines in terms

of

where you should start off on so

beginners and intermediates and advanced

and then elites and so on so we'll start

you off on beginner stroke intermediate

and then what we'll do is progress from

there

once we've then got your lactate curve

we'll stop doing lactate samples and

we'll just take it to your vo2 max where

we'll increase the watt zone by 20 but

every minute i need to pop on a heart

rate minus spin around

that's it right you just need more

pressure as well

make sure

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so if you've had two people that are

similar

in cardiovascular endurance but like one

of them is heavy you'd expect them to

have a higher ability maximum lower

lower yeah so heavier so hence why one's

going marathon runners

yeah cyclists they have a higher vo2 but

they're because of the weight i think

i'm going to set some records today

like

baseline

i'm going to real you're going to have

to re-evaluate everything you thought

was possible in terms of terrible

okay so you're taking a finger brick

blood thing how frequently you have

every four minutes okay just while i'm

here just take it off my finger yeah so

that's why the cling films are kind of

bleed out we're not going to bleed out

hopefully

it's just more hygienic

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1.3 is a generally a typical value so if

it was much lower than that it'd mean

obviously you're really well rested yeah

if it's much higher than that it may

mean there's a bit of lactate still in

the body uh from maybe doing too hard of

exercise before but what tends to happen

is as you do your first couple of

intervals

your laptop actually drops as your body

is working through the system

i've requested a saddle change so i

never ride a bike right on the other

occasion i do that's quite an intense

like hard saddle

within two minutes my gooch is an

absolute pieces so

look at this like you've got a soft

squidgy gel cushion it looks much more

luxurious

what i'm talking about

that's what i'm talking about

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you ready

darkness is your ally

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before the end of the four minutes i'll

hold this off now a lot of them is doing

just point to where you're feeling

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1.4 so yours has risen by 0.1 so with

1.3 last time it's now 1.4 black tape

slowly climbing up nowhere near his lt1

yet

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do a little jump now gone up from 11 to

13. yeah so what we're looking to see

with lactate this point here is normally

around four millimoles

of lactate

and that's the intensity that you can

hold

for roughly about 50 minutes to an hour

and then after that you're starting to

get towards vo2 max

so from this point

it gets very hard very quickly

2.5

so that means we've gone above the first

threshold

so we've downloaded

this point here

so you're now moving into this one so

it's going to start getting hard quite

quickly now

so we're moving

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you can dig in for

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come on keep going you go go

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perfect

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and see what it

so we have is

milliliters per kilogram per minute so

that basically

indicates based off your

uh height

weight age

and obviously with you being male is it

within 116 predicted so what it had to

be predicted as uh you're beyond that

last lactate 10.2 so uh one of the

measures is your basis measurement so

you've got to get above eight

milliliters eight millimoles and you're

well so you definitely went to max

max heart rate was 170 so your vo2 based

off everything from normative is sat

within the good to excellence so that's

even with weight concealer

so uh

yeah if you were 10 kilos uh lighter

you'd be in the uh

i did some cardio

yeah i know that shoes you've got good

cardio why do you want to hop on and do

a cool

down no

good test oh yeah so your lactate went

up nicely

your ventilation went up nicely the vo2

went up it's probably a perfect test to

be honest most of the pro footballers

were anywhere between 60 milliliters and

70 to be honest

so

i'll take that so your football is at 60

and i'm at 40.

47. yeah but like saying as well because

that is divided by weight if you were

the same weight as that you would be

hitting those sort of london

so 46 points to be honest because i i

consider my cardio to be very very below

average yeah so 46.6 is for like saying

in terms of normative data from a health

point of view you're good nearly on

excellent

so

forget football and we're just from a

general health

that's real that's sick

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bruce over okay

we're done

cj thoughts well all i could think about

was you just sounding and looking like

bane

really the whole time i didn't it wasn't

until the moment when you're like get

behind

me that's a terrible it wasn't until the

end i realized i could hear my breathing

do you know what that'd be at that test

i was literally terrified it actually

wasn't too bad it was it was only the

last few minutes where it went from like

not much to really bad

it was the rest of it was more just that

like you know low-key discomfort boredom

hurt in my life my gooch is just

absolutely shredded right now like not

in a good way in a bad way uh what do

you say

it's not i don't want to shredded you

long story short i'm basically a league

football that's what we've established

that's the conclusion here is i'm pretty

much i seem to get good at football now

and then like well actually i am

actually i'm quite a decent people let's

do this what's the last time you play

football i'm rupturing my kids uh but

yeah

that's that it's done it's over that was

an insight into what it is like to

undergo a premier league medical as a

footballer pretty insightful i mean in

terms of my performance like nowhere

near as bad as i thought again i always

think of myself as having terrible

cardio particularly like i said after

the achilles drop shot i've done zero

cardio for like five months so i thought

it'd be worse than that that wasn't too

bad they were pretty happy with the

numbers and stuff so that's pretty cool

big thanks to the ragnarok again for

hooking me up that was a really cool

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