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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!

Soccer Conditioning & Testing -- A Little More Common Sense. Part II
Renato Capobianco, MA, CSCS
Conditioning coaches need to always remember that when they work with a head coach of a team, in this case a soccer team, they ultimately answer to the head coach. Most soccer coaches over the age of forty are sort of similar in two aspects to baseball coaches of the same age. They are on the superstitious side and, most (not all) did not grow up with the availability of all these conditioning programs and statistical data. At the end of the day, most soccer coaches will want three things from a conditioning coach: 1) get their team in shape enough to outwork the opposition, 2) don't get their players injured and, 3) don't waste their time with nonsense (Translation: don't spend time on something that the head coach cannot see transferring into increased effective play on the field). I'm sure this holds true of coaches in other sports as well. It is important for a conditioning coach to study the needs of the particular sport they are working with and then devise a plan that has physiological merit as well as meeting with the approval of the head coach in charge. . . . keep reading
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 II
Joe Bonyai CSCS
The final part of this series will review the most appropriate types of conditioning strategies for soccer athletes. . . . keep reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Training the Two Sport High School Athlete
Michael Boyle
A big part of my concept for strengthcoach.com is being responsive to the needs of the readers. Last week we received a question about training a two sport high school athlete. . . . keep reading
In-Season Training for Soccer and Field Hockey
Michael Boyle
The truth is that in season strength training for any sport really should not vary greatly. The goals of any in-season program are nearly identical. . . . keep reading
Rotary Training Videos
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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
Classifications of Single Leg Knee Dominant Exercise - A New Look at An Old Idea
Michael Boyle
Where many strength coaches and trainers previously relied on bilateral exercises like squats and leg presses we now regularly utilize exercises like lunges and one leg squats. . . . keep reading
How to Dramatically Improve Your Quickness, Strength and Footspeed with Martial Arts - Exclusive Interivew with Jeff Fields
How to Dramatically Improve Your Quickness, Strength and Footspeed with Martial Arts  - Exclusive Interivew with Jeff Fields Finally, you can discover the BEST martial arts drills to use in your sports training program to instantly increase your game speed, agility and foot quickness. Listen to sports performance and martial arts expert Jeff Fields reveal his secrets for almost 22 minutes! . . . keep reading
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