Working with the countries most promising young football players at Arsenal academy with Paudie Roche (Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach at Arsenal Football Club)

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach at Arsenal Football Club, Paudie Roche. Unlike other part 2's I have done in the past, this one with Paudie comes only weeks after part 1 because of the response we both had on the back of that. This part 2 is a little different, however. Paudie was kind enough to put a tweet out and ask for questions which listeners wanted answering, so this episode is a Q&A based on listener questions. I hope you enjoy this episode with Paudie Roche. Who is Paudie Roche (education, background, current role) S&C in foundation phase (Culture Coach) Role of play Exposure to different sports Olympic lifting and its role at Arsenal (Luke Jenkinson) Programming Progressions and regressions Time investment Individualisation training (Lassi Laakso) Are we slowing down progress by individualising too much? Speed training at Arsenal academy (Neil Scanlon) Structure Focus Planning and programming Velocity based training (Ben Sayers) Thoughts on VBT Do you use it? If not, why not Internal and external load monitoring at Arsenal academy (Conor Cantwell) Biggest challenges faced as a newly qualified S&C coach (Jordan Fentiman) Paudie can be found on Twitter @coach_roche_ Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following on Twitter @strengthofsci or visiting strengthofscience.com. Enjoy PP