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 [...]
Last week at the NSCAA National Conference, I picked up a few balls from Rasenreich.com 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 “free play” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A few days ago, I posted a post on the AthleteFIT home page titled Become what you believe… after watching one of our teams battle it out with one of their closest rivals. After posting this, I received several emails with links to other motivating videos (some of which we have put up on our [...]
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 [...]
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 final post of the OUR GAME series – discussing the physical, technical, and psychological development of our youth as it pertains to the [...]
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