Everyone watching the World Cup is looking at Mbappé, Haaland, and Messi and wondering the same thing... How do these guys actually build and maintain that physique at the highest level?

In this episode of Between Sets, we break down elite soccer fitness from a trainer's perspective, what it actually takes to perform at a World Cup level, why these athletes are built completely differently from bodybuilders, and what that lean, explosive physique actually requires behind the scenes.
In this episode:

✅ What elite soccer fitness really looks like — strength, VO2 max, sprint conditioning
✅ Training for football performance vs. training for aesthetics
✅ Haaland's 6'5" frame and 160+ goal output — what's actually behind it
✅ Why position changes everything — a goalkeeper trains nothing like a striker
✅ Why soccer players look lean but not "jacked" — and whether that's optimal
✅ Vic's take — what he'd actually programme for someone who wanted to train like a World Cup player

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