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Any suggestions on torturing my team with fitness drills at the next training session??? :twisted:
 
Hmmm

Players cover 8-12km during a match, consisting of 24% walking, 36% jogging, 20% coursing, 11% sprinting, 7% moving backwards and 2% moving whilst in possession of the ball (1).

Soccer players posses excellent endurance with VO2max reported to range between 55 and 70 ml/kg/min in elite performers (2,3). The game is played at an average intensity close to the lactate threshold - approximately 80-90% of maximum heart rate (4,5).

How important is the correct type of endurance training in soccer?

The greater a player's aerobic capacity, the more ground they cover during a typical game (5,6). Additionally, improved endurance also increases the number of sprints completed in a game (7). By improving the VO2max of youth soccer players by 11% over an 8 week period, a 20% increase in total distance covered during competitive match play was manifested, along with a 23% increase in involvements with the ball and a 100% increase in the number of sprints performed by each player (5).
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*sadist mask on*

have a read through this:

http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/soccertraining.html
 
Lots of doggies.

I think thats what they are called, we do them at Hockey.

Sprint to 25m, jog back to baseline, Sprint to Halfway, job back, sprint to 75m, job back, sprint to opp baseline jog back.

Do 4/5 sets of those after each practise and your team will want to kill you :)

Maybe include some core work? - Situps/crunches/planks.
 
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hawker said:
Lots of doggies.

I think thats what they are called, we do them at Hockey.

Sprint to 25m, jog back to baseline, Sprint to Halfway, job back, sprint to 75m, job back, sprint to opp baseline jog back.

Do 4/5 sets of those after each practise and your team will want to kill you :)
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Think they call those suicides in the US.
 
Stickfigure said:
Indeed they are. Used to do them every basketball practice I had. Horrible, but they build up your stamina very quickly.
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Yup, used to do them for rugby. Fyi, I used to play hooker, ie not the atheletic body type :D . Not fun. The other shi*ty one was running up and down the banks.. Yoh.
 
Randhir said:
Yup, used to do them for rugby. Fyi, I used to play hooker, ie not the atheletic body type :D . Not fun. The other shi*ty one was running up and down the banks.. Yoh.
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Yea, that too! Sheeesh.

Something we used to do quite a bit of at Cross Country was Polish Fartlek.

Run around a field and every corner you stop and do a set of an exercise, i.e. pushups at one, situps at another, etc etc. Wow that punished us.

If you want to build running endurance and you have a longish course or an athletics track Indian Running is quite cool. Runners run in single file and the leader sets the pace. Then every 30sec or so the guy at the back sprints to the front and becomes the leader. - really enjoyed doing that at cross country. :D
 
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