SoccerFIT Academy - Functionally Integrated Training
Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
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 [...]
As we seek to learn more about how young players adapt to our speed, agility and conditioning programs, we have begun to incorporate the Polar Team 2 Training System and a new tracking system for our Woodway Curve Treadmills. These two systems allow us to collect meaningful data without making our athletes feel like subjects [...]
Game Speed Training
This on-field program combines all 10 types of soccer speed in a progressive, developmental structure. This is designed to enhance the players ability to blend speed and skill with timing, rhythm and communication in game situations. To reach your true potential as a player, one must possess the unique blend of technical, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today I am highlighting the jumping tests we used monitor lower body power improvements over the course of the fall 2010 training season. We measure two types of jumps in our program: Standing Long Jumps (Broad Jump) and Vertical Jump. These two tests can sometimes tell us quite a bit about the players ability. One [...]
Today we are going to look at the results of our fall program in terms of agility. One of the most respected tests for agility in all sports is the 5-10-5 shuttle (or pro-agility run), where the athlete will start with a lateral sprint 5 yards to the right, then turn and run 10 yards [...]
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