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Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
Over the last decade we have trained over 6000 athletes. And in that time we have seen players take their speed, strength and power to levels that we never thought possible. But occasionally, this just wasn’t enough to win them a starting role. We quickly realized that enhancing a player’s 40yd dash time was not [...]
This season we will be highlighting our U12-U14 Advanced Groups in this blog series. Here is an overview of our program for this group:
SEASONAL GOAL:
The goal of the spring 2011 soccer season in the advanced U12-U14 age group is to…
…Elevate the speed, reactive quickness and fitness in specific situational environments.
These aspects are strongly affected by [...]
Here is a quick recap of some of the more popular posts from the last year:
Training to Reduce ‘Awkwardness’ During Growth Spurts – This was a question that I was asked earlier in the year regarding what we might suggest for a “u12 girl soon to be 13 to regain her speed and quickness [...]
Over the last 10 years we have developed many different styles of agility programming. We have standard quick feet or cone agility programs, we have reactive agility programs, we have dribbling and moves based agility programs and we have passing and receiving agility programs. But many of these drills are player focused and not team [...]
Still not quite understanding what the F.I.T. Philosophy is all about? It’s simple really, we start off training simple movements and patterns (motor abilities), and then we create a training environment to peak athleticism, which we define as the ability to use a variety of simple movements and patterns to efficiently perform a wide range [...]
I recently received this question from a parent…
Question: What type of a speed and strength program would you suggest for a u12 girl soon to be 13 to regain her speed and quickness after a large growth rate. My daughter at a early age was generally faster then anyone her age but [...]
This week we started to combine some of our footwork drills with some simple dribbling drills against passive defense with our youngest players (8′s, 9′s and 10′s). The goal of this (from our perspective) is not necessarily to coach the attacking player, but to coach the defensive player on how to keep balance, rhythmic footwork [...]
The Cruyff turn is one of the most common and popular turns in soccer. It is easy to learn, yet so many players have trouble using it to their advantage. This week at FIT, we noticed almost every player used the Cruyff turn as their “go-to” way of changing direction. This, I must say, is [...]
Step 2: Creating Objectives for Each of the Goals
In yesterdays post we discussed our Goals for the Spring Season in the U12-U14 Age Group. The next step in our program development model is to take each of these goals and specifically identify how they apply to this age range of soccer players. We must look [...]
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