SoccerFIT Academy - Functionally Integrated Training
Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
After you have taken the test and entered your scores on the data entry sheets for (please enter scores on either the male data entry sheet or female data entry sheet by clicking on these links). You will be taken to our results page which display’s your scores in a comparative radar graph on top [...]
Last week I put up a post that documents our ACL Return to Sport program and over the last few days I have received emails asking to see some of these activities in action. I videoed a few of the drills from our session last night with 2 girls who are in the final stages [...]
As spring approaches, and the high school female soccer players return to the field. We though it might be good to review some of the literature regarding ACL injuries and how our program has integrated training progressions that attempt to reduce the risk of this devastating injury. Over the last few days I have put [...]
Last week at the NSCAA National Conference, I picked up a few balls from Corpus Training LLC to start a study on reactive dribbling and quick feet that we plan to start in the Spring of 2012. Last night I began our process, by letting some of our athletes play with the balls in a [...]
This week at the SoccerFIT Academy, our college kids came back to kick off their off-season workouts with us. And, in what has become very typical, we spent quite a bit of time reminiscing, evaluating and discussing new ideas and workout philosophies that they have been exposed to while they were away at school. We [...]
As you know, our PowerFIT/Speed/FIT program is a seasonal progression that challenges the athlete to improve each week as we build off a foundation of basic movement into explosive speed/agility and fitness:
From a conditioning standpoint we are using the Cybex Arc Trainers in the first two phases (months) and then our focus shifts to the [...]
Last week we put up a 5 part series on how we test and assess our athletes vertical jump. You can get a closer look at this series by clicking on the links below…
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Testing Max Verticals with the SmartJump System from Fusion Sport. In this post you can see how [...]
Many of our players use heart rate (HR) monitors to evaluate their response to daily training programs. Here is a common question many parents ask when they find out we are using HR monitors in our training sessions.
“What is the concept of monitoring (to improve) your fitness, and why/how is the monitor used to achieve [...]
What is Soccer Speed?
I seem to get questions regarding teaching running (sprinting) mechanics (form) to young soccer players every week. Parents and coaches are continuously asking me to work with an athletes sprint form, and they bring up Ronaldo as being a player they would like to emulate. They mention his form and technique, his [...]
As we are continuously in search of a way to assess game based soccer fitness in a training environment, we have played around with many different styles of conditioning drills. In the past we have created activities such as our repeated sprint interval, our Soccer FITness Interval, 90-second interval and now the 4-mile interval is [...]
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