This has perplexed me for years… Athletes often suffer minor injuries throughout the season. Aggressive play can often result in a sprained ankle, pulled muscle or shoulder injury, and upon injuring themselves the players (or parents) often decide to take 2-6 weeks off to let the injury heal. Let me try to understand this… a [...]
Top 10 Programs on the Cybex Arc Trainer: #10
September 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
Top Ten Training Programs for the Arc Trainer #10: General Fitness
In our series of the top ten types of training on the Cybex Arc Trainer we have our number 10 program being Improved General Fitness. When we say “General Fitness” we define this as:
“The ability of a training program to raise the level of function [...]
Top 10 Programs on the Cybex Arc Trainer
August 26, 2010 By 4 Comments
Top 10 Arc Programs:
Not only do I run the Soccer F.I.T. Academy, but I also own several other sports performance testing and research centers that specialize in program/protocol development. From time to time we work with equipment manufactures to study the effects of their equipment within a specific population. We got an Arc trainer 3 [...]
Fall Weekly Recap: Week 1 (TESTING)
August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Response to the Cybex Arc 1 on 1 off Challenge!
July 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I recently posted a challenge workout on the Cybex Blog Page and received quite a few responses. This Challenge Workout is one of many that we use on in our fitness program, and it is one of our most popular because of it’s ability to demand strength, power, strength endurance and heart rate recovery. It [...]
Keeping a Training Journal
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
During your first week of training we asked that you buy a notebook, nothing big, just a small, spiral notebook that you can carry with you to training each week. This is where you will kept track of your progress and set goals for the future. Here is how we got started…
Open the notebook, and [...]
Training Speed Indoors Using Treadmills…?
April 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the past 4-6 weeks we have been using the Woodway Curve (formerly called the Speedboard) Treadmill to train linear speed with our younger (12-14 year old) soccer players. We have used a progression of drills that we used in the past which include some low level plyometrics (ankling, box / stair jumps, skipping, etc.) [...]
Teaching Sprint Drills to Young Players
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a large group setting (team setting) sometimes it is very difficult to teach sprint drills or running mechanics due to the technical nature of the exercise. This becomes especially difficult when the demands of weather, field space, training facility space, etc. are not optimal. At the Soccer F.I.T. Academy we train in Overland Park, [...]
Weekly Recap: Pre-Season Week 2
February 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
FOCUS EXERCISE: TRX Table Top Row
February 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Many of our younger soccer players lack upper back strength…well actually they lack upper body strength altogether. But when you work with a population of 10-18 year old’s we sometimes get resistance from parents when we introduce strength training with weights (weight training). Most researchers, physicians and physiotherapists are now in agreement that, in the [...]
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