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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jul 4

Things are going to get much, much worse, and for what? Trophies, titles, and league positions.
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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jul 4

Truth and Justice demands accountability. If you choose silence or complicity, know that those you fail to protect or stand up for are quietly ensuring their voices are heard & the reckoning loud, relentless, & just.

The rot and poison seeped into the ecosystem for three years+

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚽️ ♂️ ♀️ If you betray your values across both teams and by choice abusers and perpetrators are given a home, shielded, protected, and given safety. Then expect wrath.

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jun 27

Now on ISSPF

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jun 12

My latest LinkedIn post breaks down real data from a New Zealand defender vs the USA—think 326% more high-speed running and record-breaking speeds

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jun 12

🩺⚕️ Today, FIFPRO unveiled 12 new safety standards backed by 70 experts to protect athletes from excessive workload. Highlights: guaranteed off-season breaks, retraining periods, and mandatory rest after long-haul travel. Global standards for player welfare are long overdue.

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Jun 12

📌⚽ How do international match loads compare to club Elite professional football in the lead up to #WEURO2025?

Click on the link here👇🏻
linkedin.com/posts/asccli...

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 28

3. Issy Vine is suing the force, claiming constructive dismissal, after a fellow call-handler made a series of comments, including describing a rape victim as a "slut".

The staff member was sacked for gross misconduct in November 2023 but reinstated on appeal.

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 28

2. Ms Vine also reported that he had referred to the Clapham area as "Sarah Everard turf".

I reported my offensive colleague to the Met - why did he get his job back?

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 28

This is horrific, imagine this man triaging emergency calls 🚔 @metpoliceuk

"Ms Vine said the first of these happened as he took a report from a woman alleging she had been raped, & he had covered his mouth with his hand & told Ms Vine:

"She sounds like a slut."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Met Police: Call-handler resigns over colleague's reinstatement

Issy Vine reported a colleague who made discriminatory remarks but resigned after he was reinstated.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 21

In professional clubs, stability in key support roles like lead physio is important for consistent player care, safeguarding, and performance support. Multiple adverts in under two years point to destabilisation, turnover, + or something more deeply sinister.
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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 21

❌🚩🚨🆘 Frequent re-advertising of the same role within a short period typically suggests challenges in retaining staff, filling positions long-term,
team dynamics, culture, conditions, or all three. While exact turnover benchmarks for specific roles or clubs are not available

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 13

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Patricia DeAnna (@patriciadeanna) on Threads

📌 Why are so many people afraid of intellectuals? Especially Black ones? Let’s talk about it. 👇🏾

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 9

👉🏼 Click to view:

🔗 linkedin.com/posts/asccli...

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 9

Early download: My GPS-Guided Hamstring Rehab Reference Guide is available now on LinkedIn-before it appears on my website/blog!

✅ For sports med (SEM's), S&C, rehab, and team sport practitioners
✅ Practical tables, PRM flow, GPS metrics, and evidence-based references

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 9

📌 Unlock the details behind my 8-stage #HamstringRehab GPS framework:

🟢 GPS metrics
🟢 Pain-controlled progression (PRM)
🟢 Clear reference tables, easy to use & evidence-based guidance

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 6

📌 Live Dashboard: Click on Link
Hamstring Rehabilitation
lookerstudio.google.com/s/musb58GB7Co

Hamstring Grade 2a Tear Rehab - Daily GPS Report & Match Thresholds

Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

lookerstudio.google.com

Reposted by Lizzie Fluke

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · May 2

Labour losing one of its safest seats shows what happens when a government cuts disability benefits and winter fuel payments, keeps the two-child benefit cap, and panders to anti-migrant rhetoric:

Reform wins and always will.

This isn’t the change people voted for and it shows.

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 1

Individual Load
More distance/sprints → Longer recovery

For Insights for UWCL, prep & training durability, click on the guide below. 👇🏻

www.lizziefitness.com/lizzie-fluke...

This team featured have not achieved the record 2nd place league finish. The club’s best in it's history, since May 2021.

LIZZIE FITNESS

Becoming A Better Team. I put this very basic document together for the players and coaches, as newish to this preparation. This for a season with UEFA Women's Champions league football, playing in th...

www.lizziefitness.com

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 1

🔥 Player Speed
Faster players → More sprints, more fatigue → I.e. Central nervous system - brain and muscle

Age & Fitness Older/less fit → Longer recovery

Individualised Recovery: Durability
How well do the team and Individuals recover. 1,2,3 days?

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 1

Factors Affecting Recovery in Football Players
🧠 Brain, Lungs and Legs

🔥 Match Intensity
Higher intensity → Longer recovery needed

🦵🏻 Muscle Mass
More muscle (I.e. Quads/thighs) → Greater muscle damage, → longer recovery

🛞 Particularly braking/decels, change of direction (COD)

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Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · May 1

Planning and Periodisation In football (soccer)

🧠 1v3 match weeks, Integrating load management.

On and off pitch demands and decision making.

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Apr 30

👉🏼🏆 8 or more changes = 70% or greater change in the
line-up.

Actual: 63.6% of 11 players is approximately 7 players (specifically, 6.996, which rounds to 7)

I.e. minimum, another athlete change required at least for the starting 11

Lizzie Fluke @lizziefluke.bsky.social · Apr 30

🏆 Subject to athlete availability 👇🏻