It’s not necessary that you agree, but you should listen to this. You can greatly benefit from Weight training soccer when coaching your players in a sport that requires a lot of strength, and, or explosive power. If player do not need strength and power to a large extent even for them, strong abdominal and lower back muscles are helpful.
This article will teach you the basic theories of weight training for soccer using simple methods for presenting those theories.
A vital principle in soccer strength training is, Specificity. The theory is to design your training sessions to match the player’s activity on the field. Take for example running and swimming, a great exercise for runners and swimmers respectively.
Speed is the main factor to put effort to when training, so as to develop power. A number of thing which are important while planning weight training programs are the players role in team sports, their age, physical and mental capacity to take stress, and the level at which they are to play.
Having this information when preparing a fitness training program, can lead to a good start.
In order to develop physical conditioning such activities should be planned which improves specific training. For instance, to improve the aerobic and strength and power fitness, swimmers also run and perform weight lifting.
One more feature in weight training soccer often ignored is prevention of injury.Another area of weight training soccer which is commonly neglected in is injury prevention. It is necessary to prevent injury although it is not the direct factor to contribute towards to the play however it enables the players to maintain their fitness in order to perform their best at the special times of the season.
The movements executed in soccer are running, sprinting, turning and twisting, side-stepping, preparing for a goal. The muscle chain that is required in these movements named as the “anterior and posterior chain,” should be exercised to build strength, stability and power.
The most useful workouts are the core lifts, like squats and deadlifts for forming these muscles. A comprehensive soccer fitness program giving due stress upon these two core lifts should work miracles for leg, hip, back and abdominal strength.
The program can also consist of swimming to highlight the areas of shoulders, arms and back muscles.
Ordinary strength program comprises of doing pretty heavy weights but only a few times. As we have talked earlier some sports require mass and power but some others like soccer requires a good combination of strength with flexibility, speed and resistance; especially the midfielder.
Establishing strong muscle groups can also improve to the performance even if the primary strength, power or endurance gains are absent. These include the lower back and hamstrings, and the quadriceps muscles that direct knee joint function.
This is it. Please try to consider these areas while weight training soccer as you know now that football unlike other sports do not require weights essentially. You are welcomed to our youth soccer coaching community that has a plethora of informative articles, weekly newsletters, and videos to help you better understand the concepts of youth coaching.
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Andre Botelho is a recognized authority in youth soccer coaching and has already helped thousands of youth coaches to dramatically improve their coaching skills. Learn how to explode your players’ skills and make training fun by downloading your free ebook at: Fun Soccer Drills