Soccer Fitness for Soccer Games
These
days conditioning through soccer games is a lot different than it was
before. Before, players would run long laps of cardio exercises to be in
shape in time for the soccer season. This was enough years ago. But
with the passage of time, training and performance have changed.
Younger
coaches are now avoiding those boring cardio runs as they are now
updated with the newer strategies with soccer fitness. They would
instead develop practices that are paced in actual soccer games.
In
soccer games, there are sprints with recovery and the normal sprints.
This will be helpful for male or female, young or old. Your players will
only have injuries, become weak and slow if you only send them into
conditioning runs. Unfortunately, because of the misinformed parents and
coaches, lots of players still get injured. Players may suffer from
knee pain, plantar fasciitis, off the soccer pitch and Achilles
tendonitis. Many of the players are continuously pulling their
quadriceps muscles and hamstrings. With these, you would have to look
and change how you train the players.
You
may now wonder how you can prevent these injuries from happening. You
would want to train the players the way soccer games are played. Soccer
games are usually played with sprints in interval and with recovery
periods. For up to twenty yards, the player will sprint; then receives
the ball before he passes the ball to another player. To do all these in
the game, the player has to be in good condition. The pace of the game
is not sedentary either; hence the training should be changing as well.
This
kind of practice and training will prepare the players for the actual
pace of real soccer games, compared with the steady cardio training.
With this training, players can practice in a more specific manner.
Players also need to have the required strength for interval works and
sprints. Completing a twenty-five minute run or jog can be done by any
player.
But
if you would look carefully, ranger of motion occurs on the ankle
joints, knees and hip is very little. But by changing the type of
movement placed, you can do interval training and sprints at the same
time. Stops, change of directions, starts, forward movements, side
shuffles and backward movements are all included in soccer fitness. Such
movements are actually the same with the actions made in the soccer
field for the preparation of actual soccer games.
Hence, stop doing those old style cardio runs. Train the proper way.
