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Soccer Training!
Welcome to the Soccer Training and Conditioning Homepage. This section covers soccer, the world's most popular sport, in detail. Speed, conditioning, agility and strength programs will all be featured here!
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Soccer Conditioning & Testing -- A Little More Common Sense
Renato Capobianco, MA, CSCS
It's that time of year again when college and high school soccer players are given summer training programs by their coaches complete with a list of tests that will greet them when pre-season starts. I look back at my own experience as a player with this ritual. As my high school coach was also my college coach, I dealt with the same routine for 8 years.
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Demanding Analysis: Conditioning for Soccer Part I
Joe Bonyai CSCS
It's about that time when soccer athletes will begin their offseason conditioning programs (if their competitive season comes in the fall). The purpose of this article is to introduce different types of training and the implications of each on performance in soccer. . . . keep reading
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Multidirectional Movement Training - Part I
Anthony Lomando
We all know that soccer is random and chaotic in nature and a high degree of agility, quickness and movement skill is necessary for meeting the physical demands of the game. A study of player movements during Premiership Games found that dependant upon position, between 20-30 percent of purposeful movements performed during a match are multidirectional movements. How efficient and effective our soccer players move in all directions and transition between movements through acceleration and deceleration qualities, determines their level of agility . . . keep reading
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Off-Season Training for Soccer
Brijesh Patel, MA, CSCS
Soccer is a game that is extremely demanding and is dependent upon many different athletic qualities. Speed, agility, power, quickness, flexibility, strength, and aerobic and anaerobic capacity are a . . . keep reading
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Hamstring Injuries in Soccer Athletes
Shad Forsythe – Performance Specialist
Over the past five years of working with soccer players at the elite level, specifically the German National Team and Los Angeles Galaxy, reduction in hamstring problems has been a major success. Players often would complain of either straining their hamstrings chronically or feeling "heavy legs" specifically in their hamstrings. . . . keep reading
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Reducing the Risk of Knee Injuries in Soccer
Anthony Lomando - Athletes' Performance
Can we really prevent injuries? The answer to that question is most obviously no. I have been guilty of uttering the words, "this exercise or that program is great for injury prevention." As strength coaches, we know these words all to well. This article is here to focus on the following words we can all feel comfortable saying to our athletes, "These simple yet effective exercises performed in 10 minutes at the beginning of any practice, can help to significantly reduce the risk of non-contact knee injuries!" . . . keep reading
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Planning the Competition Period in Soccer
Mladen Jovanovic
Soccer, as we all know, is a very complex sport. When I say complex, I mean that success in soccer is dependent on a lot of factors, individual and collective (team). Individual factors are usually technical, tactical, psychological and physical preparedness, with numerous sub-factors among each of them. Team factors are especially complex and depend on team organization, style, cooperation, team spirit, and communication among others. The goal of training is to bring up those factors to an appropriate optimal level during the important time of the year. The problem is that the competitive season is longer and longer in modern soccer. . . . keep reading
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Movement Preparation
Andy Twellman
If we're looking for any edge we can find, what we choose to do to physically prepare immediately before competition and training is pretty important. . . . keep reading
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Strong and Injury Free?
Michael Boyle
Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In the field of strength development, this concept applies directly to exercise selection. . . . keep reading
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