Sounders training notebook: Working harder, not longer

Kayla Mehring / Sounder at HeartTUKWILA — In an effort to shake things up for a variety of reasons, the Seattle Sounders have tweaked training sessions a bit this week by ramping up the intensity and dialing back the duration.

The move is designed both to keep things fresh in a season that has already featured 29 competitive matches and to hopefully shake the Sounders out of a funk that has seen them lose three straight and 4 of their past 5 matches.

The change is somewhat subtle, but that could be the difference.

“It starts here in training,” Sounders midfielder Albert Rusnák told the media. “When you’re on a roll, it’s a lot easier to go into the next game with confidence. We don’t have any…