SoccerFIT Academy - Functionally Integrated Training
Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
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 [...]
As a fitness professional, youth club staff member, and soccer dad, I hear ALL sides of the discussions about “early specialization in youth sports across the U.S.” While this trend affects many youth sports, this dilemma as it pertains to the American soccer landscape is the most interesting in my opinion. FACT- The U.S. is [...]
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 [...]
Thanksgiving week was a quick week for us with normal training on Monday and Tuesday and a merged PowerFIT/SpeedFIT circuit on Wednesday morning. The Wednesday morning session was very well attended and I was impressed with some of our older athletes as they went through a powerful and very challenging circuit. We had a number [...]
We have over 300 kids in this program so far this winter and many of them are asking this question. I thought I would paraphrase the program very quickly to highlight the key points we will be addressing this November, December, January and February. For simplicity sake, we will break each month into 4 categories: [...]
PowerFIT/SpeedFIT – Testing / Setting the Foundation
Power and speed are the keys to explosive performance in sport. Everyone wants to be faster (speed), jump higher (power) and change directions quicker (agility) on the field or court. Our PowerFIT/SpeedFIT classes look to develop these areas while also increasing the player’s ability to perform at the [...]
On August 1st 2011 we performed a pre-season Game Speed Evaluation on 70 female soccer players that play in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL). Over that past 2 months these teams have taken part in our Game Speed Program to help develop some of the weaker areas identified in the pre-season test. In addition [...]
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 [...]
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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