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Tuesday, August 28, 2007


Football Exercises: Soccer Warmup Drills

There are a wide variety of football exercises that you can use and that are a great way to get your players ready for a training session or a match. Today I'll write about a simple soccer warm up drill and how you can make some effective soccer exercises for your players.

  • Warm up Drill: Passing Through A Circle

Passing through a circle is an effective warm up soccer exercise and gives your players good warm up before you start a training session or before they are getting ready for a match.

In this exercise, have five of your players stand in a circle with twenty-yard diameter. Now, have another five of your players stand behind each of these players. Now the front-standing players have to pass the ball to each other in a random way while standing at the same place. No doubt, this is an effective technique, but since this exercise requires lots of movement, your communication skill will be at test here.

You should use your soccer motivation and communication skill and vision in order to instruct the players for this exercise. You will have to use your imagination in order to make this drill more innovative by adding variations to the same. For example, you may want to put a defender in the middle of the circle.

Feel free to create your own variations of these football exercises and come up with your own ideas. My job here is to stimulate your coaching brain... your job is to give it wings! Good Luck!

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Saturday, August 11, 2007


Warm Up Drills For Soccer

It's important that you learn some warm up drills for soccer to implement during the soccer training session. This is the perfect way to raise the core temperature and engage the nervous system.

The following is some of the factors that the coach must keep in mind while they are running the warm up session.

Warm Up Tips #1

In this group, the coaches can try the following during the warm up session.

- Have the players Jog for 5 minutes
- Have them their Leg swings-forward, cross body, 10 each
- Give emphasis on active stretching over 20 yards

Warm Up Tips #2

When it comes to active stretching over 20 yards, it must be done along with the following warm-up methods.

- Have the players skip forward, backwards
- Side skip with arm swing is also effective
- You can also train the players for cross step
- Have the players skip across foot-big hip movement with quick steps
- Train them regarding the High knee carioca. They must do these warm ups as if going to sprint
- Backward run is also a tried and tested method. Make sure that in this activity, the heels must kick up to butt. That is the perfect way for backward running warm ups.

Try these simple soccer exercises and send me some feedback.

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Monday, July 16, 2007


Soccer Warmup Drills - Passing Through A Circle

  • Passing Through A Circle
Passing through a circle is an effective warm up soccer drill and gives your players good warm up before you start a training session or before they are getting ready for a match.
In this soccer exercise, have five of your players stand in a circle with twenty-yard diameter.

Now, have another five of your players stand behind each of these players. Now the front-standing players have to pass the ball to each other in a random way while standing at the same place.

No doubt, this is an effective soccer technique, but since this exercise requires lots of movement, your communication skill will be at test here.

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