As one of the great athletes of the last two decades, Michael Johnson represented the notion of invincibility in sport long before the great unbeaten Arsenal team of 2003-2004 reached similar heights, although it was an Arsenal squad of rather more modest ambitions that the American watched train yesterday. Johnson was a guest of the club at the training session before tonight's Champions League game against Olympiakos, the Greek champions, who lost their first game to Schalke. Arsène Wenger has started sending some of his young players to Johnson's athletic performance school just outside Dallas, Texas, during the summer to improve their strength and power with a view to breaking into the first team. Arsenal's Spanish defender Ignasi Miquel was the most recent graduate of the academy to be dispatched to the Michael Johnson performance centre for work on his power. Had Miquel come back noticeably different? "Yes," Wenger said, "but not fast enough to win a gold medal. "You have two ways to run quickly. I will teach you now," Wenger said. "First is to do your movement as quickly as possible but you gain that very quickly. You will not improve that at the age of 18. The second is to have more power on your push [off from the ground]. That is quite logical. If I can run at the same pace but can gain power â every time I push I gain five or one inch more â I will be quicker if I can repeat the frequency of my movement." Wenger went on to explain the development of young players and the testosterone boost that makes them mature at the beginning of their twenties and its likely benefits for Miquel.
They need to send Ramsey to this school. It might help him. Although to be fair to him he did look a yard quicker against City.
Wenger went on to explain the development of young players and the testosterone boost that makes them mature at the beginning of their twenties and its likely benefits for Miquel. SJW10, Ramsey is only 21 so may benefit from this.
