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Wednesday, October 17, 2007


Weight Training Soccer - Speed & Endurance

Weight training soccer is an important element of every full skill soccer player. If they train properly this aspect of the game, they will simply maximize their chances to get a place in their favorite team.

Weight training for soccer can help the players optimize their overall soccer skills and performance.

The Importance Of Endurance

What is endurance? Is the ability of the player to remain active during the complete 90 minutes of the game – both in defense and attack– but without showing tiredness or impaired soccer ball control.

The player has to constantly run throughout the "soccer field diagram" to demand the ball from other fellow players, to steal the ball from the opponents, or to dribble the ball himself to the goal line so that he could go for shooting and score a goal.

As the soccer coach perspective, it is important to run the weight training session in a way that could help the players effectively work and improve their endurance.

Enhancing Speed

With the correct weight training, soccer speed is another physical element that can be substantially enhanced.

Players accelerate their speed on the ground depending upon the circumstances, such as to steal to ball or to save the ball from stealing.

They are supposed to maintain this acceleration at the situation demands. For example, if you are playing as forward, you are supposed to accelerate with variation in speed over 3 to 20 yards.

Weight training soccer drills must work on some of the associated basics, such as changing direction with speed, right straight ahead running speed, variation in speed etc. The coach must make sure that the training session will help the players attain these basics.

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Saturday, August 18, 2007


Soccer Fitness - Weight and Eating Disorders

  • Recognize The Signs And Symptoms Of Eating Disorders

When it comes to soccer fitness related issues, a good soccer coach knows that when the players are facing eating disorders, they often try to hide their symptoms to avoid calling attention to them. Therefore, you must be capable enough to instruct coaches and soccer trainers to recognize the signs and symptoms of eating disorders and understand their role in helping to prevent them.

  • Emphasize The Health Risks

In soccer fitness, another important thing in this regard is that the coaches must learn to emphasize the health risks associated with low weight, especially for female players with menstrual irregularities or Amenorrhea . If you find any such case, you should refer the player for medical assessment.

Most coaches do the mistake that emphasize weight by weighing athletes and by maximizing comments about weight in soccer training. This is not good. Instead, the coaches should focus on other areas in which players have more control in order to improve performance, such as focus on strength and physical soccer conditioning.

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