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Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
Today’s post is by SoccerFIT partner Tristan Tillette. Tillette serves as Director of Performance at Elite Sports in Birmingham, AL and On-Line Training Director of AthleteFIT.com
This is the first post of the OUR GAME series – discussing the physical, technical, and psychological development of our youth as it pertains to the rest of the world.
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We are always looking for ways to make a positive impact on our players at the SoccerFIT Academy. I have to change my coaching style about a dozen times a day as I jump from coaching kids of different ages, sports and genders, who all seem to have different motivational triggers. I have to do [...]
I got caught up in a conversation on Twitter with a coach who’s philosophy I truly respect. Here was his original Tweet.
“Why persist in prescribing generic team training programs when we know that each individual is different and unique? Convenient is not right.”
And while this is absolutely true for the personal trainer, it [...]
Today’s post is written by John Lytton, a sports performance coach and former pro-soccer player with a facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. John founded Performance Unlimited in 2006, and has made it his passion to create an environment where athletes are constantly being challenged to progress as a player and a person. It [...]
Our Research Review Article for today comes from the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (Rubley, et. al., 2011). This study assessed an intervention of low-level plyometric training on vertical jump and kicking performance in two groups of thirteen-year-old female soccer players.
“High intensity plyometric training is often used by strength [...]
Today’s post is from SoccerFIT Academy Intern Jenna Brantley. Jenna is a student at Baker University and will be writing a weekly blog for SoccerFIT outlining her observations, and how she has been able to draw from her education to help our athletes better understand the importance of each aspect of our program. Today’s post [...]
A recent study on 20 college players from the Haverford College’s Athletic Department was performed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Human Performance Laboratory (Authors Clark, K., Stearne, D., Walts, C., and Miller, A. – Published in the December 2010 – Vol. 24 No. 12 Issue of the [...]
This weeks staff post is from Missy Geha, SoccerFIT Academy trainer. Her post today reflects her thoughts on a recent article from goal.com.
Most young soccer players react in the same way as the professionals do in tight games. One would think after playing for so many years that keeping composure and staying focused would come [...]
Congratulations to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women’s Soccer Team, who’s victory over Ohio State and Stanford won them a college national championship this past weekend. And a very special congratulations to the 5 former SoccerFIT Academy / CAP players who play for Notre Dame! It seems like just last year that Mandy came to [...]
Today we are looking back over the fall 2010 season to review the results of our strength program. The fall is an in-season period, where we were not specifically focused on improving strength, but rather maintaining the strength that we had developed over the course of the summer, and hopefully becoming [...]
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