With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, naturally fitness people and soccer players/trainers are talking about training on their own, or at home. While individual training has grown with certain Instagram soccer celebrities who do a good job promoting themselves and their skills, many soccer players who usually rely on their team practice to improve are now scratching their heads about what to do. Hopefully this article inspires you and gives you some ideas to do on your own so when you return to your team, you turn some heads with your great form.
Strength Exercises To Improve Change of Direction for Soccer Players
Changing direction in soccer has several requirements depending on if you are attacking or defending. For example, to change directions well while dribbling the ball (who does it better than Messi?), you better have some command over the soccer ball otherwise it will run away from you. When making runs to get open, changing direction well requires the ability to read the game and anticipate where the ball will be played or how the defense will react. Defensively, changing direction to shut down a dribbler or follow a runner depends on the ability to detect the opponent’s body shape and react to that stimulus. However, none of those things help if your legs do not have the ability to cut explosively in and out of positions.
"Lifting a Barbell is Not Playing a Sport": Wisdom from Joel Smith of Just-Fly-Sports Training and Podcast
Joel Smith is a NCAA Division I Strength Coach working in the PAC12 conference with Cal (UC Berkley). He is also a very accomplished higher jumper, track and field coach, and he hosts an amazing podcast called “Just-Fly-Sports” where he has had the best of the best as guests. Joel has genuine passion for sprinting, jumping, and overall athleticism. Bigger than that, he is a great human being and leads a life of greatness. It is an honor to have him as an interview guest, and I think he really killed it with his answers giving tons of valuable information that will change the way you think about training.
Are you an Anti-Fragile Soccer Player?
If we take the 3 examples from above: glass, diamond, and bone, we can examine the concept of anti-fragility a little closer. Glass will break if it is dropped, thus, it is fragile. Diamond is nearly unbreakable, but doesn’t get any better from stress and therefore doesn’t care, so it is deemed robust. Human bone on the other hand, gets stronger from the right amount of stress and in fact, needs it, otherwise it atrophies leading to problems such as osteoporosis.
Repetition is No Longer Enough: Improve Your Soccer Performance Even Faster With Differential Learning
Differential Learning (difference- differential…I feel like Sherlock Holmes), which is a training theory in part owed to FC Barcelona, Thomas Tuhel (PSG coach), and Jurgen Klopp’s success. If repetition is the mother of skill, differential learning is your college professor. Developed by Professor Wolfgang Schöllhorn from Mainz University, “differential learning” also contends that players do not learn by repetition, but by making adjustments to their technique to solve new problems. Part of the effectiveness of Differential Learning is that it simply makes things harder. Shooting the ball with your arms grasped behind your back will throw you off balance and require other muscles to function in new ways.
Improving The 30 Meter Sprint And Why It Is Important For Soccer Players
When it comes to assessing how fast an athlete is, in the American football world it is all about the 40 yard dash. Since the rest of the world doesn’t base things on yards and instead uses meters, enter the 30 meter sprint. The 30 meter sprint is actually 32.8 yards, so it is a bit shorter than a 40 yard dash. Track coaches like the flying 10m and flying 30m as well because most events in track and field are won by the athlete with the best top speed or peak velocity, not the athlete with the most explosive start .However, in soccer, we rarely reach our top speeds and most of the time the ability to accelerate well over shorter distances is what will determine success. That is not to say i don’t believe soccer players should not train their top speed- I definitely do and think every soccer player should include top speed sprinting to train the hip flexors, hamstrings, and develop overall athleticism and coordination. Plus, rarely will someone have great top speed and a poor start anyways. But, starting speed is much more trainable and again, more relevant in the sport of soccer. To get even more specific, in soccer we often sprint on a curve and have to do it relative to the context of the match such as the other 21 players and the ball. I am all for including curved sprints and all the like, but if you’re not fast in a straight line then you won’t be very fast on a curve. Furthermore, we are talking about something that all kids and competitors like- an objective way to measure performance.
Why Keeping Possession Is Not Enough To Win Soccer Games
The way a team passes the soccer ball is the hallmark of team play and describes their philosophy. As we saw in the 2018 World Cup with teams like Spain not having much success, simply keeping possession of the ball for a high percentage of the match doesn’t necessarily equate to success. This study by Robert Rein out of the Germany Sports University of Cologne shows more about what makes passes truly effective.
Soccer Lessons from a UEFA Coaching Course
I recently finished an English version of the DFB-UEFA B Course in Berlin. 24 “American” coaches traveled to Germany and took part in 2 and a half weeks of learning followed by exams. I put “American” in quotes because other than myself and the one female participant who live in Germany, one Polish guy who lives in England, and a Brazilian who lives in Brazil, the rest of the coaches who live in American were mostly not from America.
Overtraining Syndrome Can Sabotage Performance
For athletes, the concept of overtraining might seem odd. You understand a high training load is needed to adapt and get better (known as “supercompensation”). However, too high of a training load with too little recovery is a poor way to achieve proper gains. Recovery is when the actual training adaptations occur, not during the training session. In fact, sometimes overtraining may not even be evidence of training too much, but recovering too little.
Wreck Defenders With These 1v1 Soccer Moves That Actually Work
Below are 3 soccer moves that will destroy defenders and look cool at the same time. Like all good moves, they require change of speed and change of direction. The sole of the foot single leg hopping backwards is the cool part. It frustrates defenders who will then dive in and then you break them, wreck them, shake them, and humiliate them. Just exaggerating. However, my friend as a club player who used to do the first move in the video would always brag about how stupid he made defenders look in the car after our games. Try them out and leave a comment about what you think!
Video: Escape Pressure With This First Touch Technique
The best players in the world see where pressure is coming from and use their first touch to escape. This is a good soccer skill using timing and body feinting to create space from the defender. It works particularly well when a defender is closing you down as the ball arrives on a pass. I am not the smoothest with this technique, but I will keep practicing.
Developing Athleticism For The Soccer Pitch: Interview with Track and Bobsled Olympian Craig Pickering
If soccer players want to run quickly, then they need to be producing a lot of force against the ground. There are two ways to do this; firstly, we can produce this force via our muscles when our foot is on the floor, or, secondly, we can have our foot moving at a very high speed once it hits the floor. For elite sprinters, it is, of course, a combination of the two. So, ideally, you want to have a large range of motion in which to accelerate the foot towards to ground (requiring good front side mechanics); you want to be able to accelerate the foot downwards (requiring good hip extensor strength); you want to contact the ground in the optimal position (requiring good sprint mechanics), you want to be able to absorb and reuse much of the force you apply (requiring good foot and ankle stiffness), and you want to be able to produce force quickly (requiring an optimal level of strength and power).
Video: Break Defender's Ankles In Soccer with "The Delgado"
Beating defenders 1v1 comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes its running at speed, while others we are in a more static situation like in the corner or when we get closed down immediately upon receiving a pass. Either way, beating defenders is one of the most fun and effective parts of the game. When we eliminate one defender, the whole defense gets unbalanced. That is why guys like Mbappe, Ronaldo, Messi, Salah, etc. get paid the big bucks.
Realities of Speed: Interview with Track Coach Hakan Andersson
Team players gets a lot of acceleration, start&stop and change of direction stimuli in the team practice in general… small sided games in particular. The problem though that it develops a rather restricted movement patterns and poor sprinting mechanics. You often see 12-year-old soccer players moving better than 22-year-olds. Fore obvious reasons, I suggest some time is spent doing linear sprinting of various lengths and intensities at all ages.
How the Best Attacking Soccer Players In The World Move Off The Ball
The best soccer players in the world are not just killers on the ball, but they are sneaky buggers off of it as well. Research shows that ore goals are scored when the defenders are positioned farther away from the shooter. That sounds pretty obvious, but creating space on the soccer field is getting harder and harder in today’s modern game. Of course, having a ton of speed helps because you can literally just blow by defenders. But the best, like Leroy Sane and Sterling from Manchester City, Mane from Liverpool, Son from Tottenham, all use intelligent awareness and timing in addition to their speed to unravel defenses. Aguero isn’t the fastest guy in the world, but he knows how to hide behind defenders or draw them to one area and then move to the space left. Check out the video I made below to see some examples. Try these runs and ideas at your next practice and watch how you are getting more crosses from the wing and more shots on goal.
6 Simple Ways to Become a Tougher Soccer Player And Stand Out
A lot of the greatest soccer players are not just skillful and athletic, but they have strong minds and bodies that are resistant to fatigue, quitting, and settling for anything less than their best. They don’t just handle the pressure, the live for it. But what if we are not naturally tough, can we make ourselves tougher? Absolutely. In the last article called “Stop Being a Pussy: Real Talk On Developing Toughness” we took a deep dive into toughness, one of my favorite topics. In this article I will give you some things you can do starting TODAY to get the process going. They are not fun in the short term, but on the
"Stop Being A Pussy": Real Talk On Developing Toughness
Don’t mistake me with Freud or any other trained psychologist, but I think its safe to assume that people’s past experiences shape their reactions to similar experiences in the future. A simple example is a player who decides they don’t like soccer anymore because the parent or a coach was overly critical. The negative experiences create an avoidance behavior. Some of these issues can creep up again later in life when we least expect them.
Why Won't My Teammates Pass Me The Ball?: How To Receive More Passes Soccer
The Blind Side: How to Destabilize the Defense and Become a More Dangerous Soccer Player
Scoring more goals in soccer requires good vision and passing combined with smart positioning off the ball. Learning how to get to the blind side of defenders will be a massive way to get more passes and increase your chances of being considered a dangerous player. At the highest level of elite soccer, it comes down to the little things.