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OVIDIUS OVIDIUS Health and Performance offers comprehensive treatment and training programs to improve function, increase capacity, and reduce the risk of injury.

18/09/2026

WEAK LINK đź”—
You’re only as strong as your weakest link.

Strength, speed, power and movement quality all need to work together.

Identify the physical quality that’s holding you back — then train it.

Don’t just train more. Train what you need.

17/09/2026

ISO APPLICATION
Strength training doesn’t always have to mean more volume.

For footballers, particularly across a long season, the challenge is maintaining the stimulus while managing fatigue.

Isometrics provide another way to consistently expose athletes to high levels of force — whether the goal is building capacity, maintaining strength or developing force production.

The best programme isn’t always the one that does more.
It’s the one that allows you to keep adapting consistently.

15/09/2026

NOT THE ANSWER
Nordics are a great exercise for developing hamstring strength.

But hamstring injury prevention isn’t about finding one “best” exercise.

Football exposes the hamstrings to high forces, different positions, different functions and very high velocities.

Your training should reflect that.
Build strength. Build capacity.

14/09/2026

FOOTBALL OVER GYM
The gym is a tool — not the end goal.

Getting stronger is only valuable if that strength helps you do something better on the pitch.

For footballers, training should develop the physical qualities that allow you to get to the ball first, create space, win it back and impact the game.

Don’t train for the gym. Train for the game.

11/09/2026

SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE
A great way to develop qualities that actually transfer is to overload the system.
In this case it’s not simply load or resistance, adding bands also reduces the timeframe to produce stiffness.

This directly transfers to the field for increased force application, and reduced contact time, in order to improve speed.

Give them a go

10/09/2026

TENDON TRAINING
Tendon pain isn’t necessarily a sign that you need less load.

It’s often a sign that your current load exceeds your capacity.

The solution is to manage the dose, build capacity and progressively increase what the tendon can tolerate.
Work your way through the following:

- ISOMETRICS

- ECCENTRICS

- PLYOMETRICS

Don’t fear load. Learn to manage it.

08/09/2026

HOW AND WHEN
Training isn’t just about the stimulus you create — it’s about when you create it.

Different contraction types allow you to develop strength, power and force production while managing the fatigue and recovery cost across the week.

The goal: maximise adaptation without compromising matchday performance.

Build capacity early.
Express it later.
Be fresh when it matters.

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Sydney, NSW
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