Summer pre-season trainings of FC Viktoria Plzeň has started and the players went through traditional fitness tests. The coaches will have a detailed overview about the players´ readiness and according to the result the coaches will plan the trainings.
The team first visited Dr Beranová who meassured their ECG. The tests themselves were organized in the fitness gym at the Doosan Arena. „These are standard physiological tests, which have been carried using technological innovation for many years. They show disposition of body performance based on metabolic and running performance. At first we make anamnesis with each footballer, we measure height, weight, fat percentage and muscles proportion. The stress test is carried on running machine where the players warm up and then they run 12 kph until they´re totally exhausted,“ Rudolf Psota from the Faculty of Sport at Palacký University in Olomouc says.
The footballers take the tests as a stable part of every pre-season trainings. „I´m 30 so I´ve underwent many of these tests. It´s always until the very end, we always touch the bottom,“ the defender František Rajtoral says. „With me it´s interesting my tests get better when I get older. Fat, weight..everything is great. It´s only a shame the beauty is not meassured, too,“ adds smiling.
The popular player wants to gather success with Viktoria and plans to fight for his place in the starting line-up. „I feel determined and hungry for the success. I really want to prepare myself the best and do everything for further Viktoria´s victory. Our great ambition is to entertain our great fans,“ Rajtoral thinks.