Solo training, but together at heart – Sessegnon
Fri 15 May 2020, 11:13|
Tottenham Hotspur
Working from home has been a strange experience for our entire squad but, as the players continue to return to individual training at Hotspur Way, Ryan Sessegnon admits it has been a change to normality that the group has embraced.
When the country was first placed under lockdown in an attempt to combat the outbreak of COVID-19 back in March, like people across the United Kingdom, our first team were asked to work from home – an adjustment which meant swapping training with the ball at their feet on the pitch to using exercise mats and bikes in their living rooms while following daily virtual coaching sessions.
Connecting with the rest of their team-mates over Zoom video meetings, the group have followed a comprehensive fitness schedule put together by the coaching staff through sessions regularly led by Head of First Team Performance, Carlos Lalin, as they looked to keep in shape before starting to make the “smooth transition” back to Hotspur Way for individual sessions during recent days, all within the latest safety guidelines.
Everyone has been keeping in contact through the sessions, so it’s been pretty good – a pretty smooth transition.
Despite the abnormal circumstances, Ryan admits that, as time has passed, he and his team-mates have quickly got used to their adapting training environments, while the virtual programme also played a key role in helping the players keep in contact with each other.
“Training-wise, over the last two months, we were given different types of exercises to do at home – we’ve been doing Zoom sessions where we’ve all been logging on and the whole squad has been staying active on that,” the England Under-21 international explained.
“Gradually I think it became a bit easier, the more we got used to it.
“There has been a member of staff – the fitness coach – talking us through the drills and we’ve been doing exercises like on the bike. We’ve all had access to fitness bikes and we’ve just been ticking over on them.
“It’s also been easy to talk to anyone that’s in the squad. Everyone has been keeping in contact through the sessions, so it’s been pretty good – a pretty smooth transition from the Training Centre (to home) and now back the other way for the individual sessions.”
