England's players are training in three layers of clothing to prepare
them for the humid conditions of Manaus, where they play their first
game against Italy on June 14.
Roy Hodgson wants his World Cup squad, who are spending this
week at a warm-weather training base in Portugal, to sweat as
extensively as they will when they play close to the Brazilian jungle
next month.
The Football Association's head of performance services, Dave
Reddin, exercise scientist Chris Neville, Manchester United fitness
coach Tony Strudwick and Arsenal nutritionist James Collins are being
helped by three experts from Loughborough University, who can tailor
individual recovery drinks with different electrolytes depending on the
amount of fluid that is lost through sweat.
"We did sweat testing today," said Hodgson. "We have a
T-shirt, a lightweight training tracksuit and on top of that the wet
top. Three layers.
"Apparently, it is individual. People sweat differently and
need different drinks or whatever. The players went through today's
session with sweat pads on and they are being analysed and in terms of
the extra heat we tried to generate. Because there are going to be
uncomfortable moments and you've got to learn to get comfortable with
that.
"We started off on the first day just with them wearing the
extra gear for the warm-ups. Then we went to the warm-up and maybe
through part of the passing exercises today, then maybe halfway through
my session.
"But the interesting thing was when the word came to take
their tops off there weren't too many who kept them on. They were quick
to whip them off, so it is obviously working."
Temperatures on the Algarve were around 19C on Wednesday,
more than 10C cooler than they are likely to be when England face Italy
in the early evening in Manaus.
Defender Leighton Baines said: "The logic behind it is that
if you layer up, once you start to work you get hot and you want to take
the layer off. But the idea is to get comfortable with that
uncomfortable feeling of getting hot and slightly struggling.
"Each day we have been leaving it on a bit longer, but
generally most of us have left it on for the full session to try and get
used to it.
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