Tag: Training

Effective Soccer Conditioning Skills

Strength training is a key element of soccer conditioning, as it helps prepare your muscles for a fast-paced ninety minutes. Soccer can be physically demanding, and requires a great deal of both upper and lower body strength.

When you’re dribbling the ball, and an opponent tries to tackle you, you need to be strong enough to brush them off and keep going. There are also times when you need to be explosive so that you can outrun your opponents.

Here are a few strength conditioning exercises:

  • Squats
    Great for building muscle in your legs and glutes, squats should be an important part of your soccer training sessions. Stand with your feet a little wider than shoulder width apart. Stick your butt out slightly, keep your spine straight, and slowly lower yourself until your knees are just past a 90 degree angle. Then slowly bring yourself back into the starting position.
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Ways For Soccer Players To Build Stamina

An easy way to improve your stamina is through interval training. A simple way to do interval training is to do multiple 100m sprints while resting for a couple of minutes in between each sprint. This way you will be building up your stamina to run long distances without getting tired quickly. Skipping rope is another excellent exercise which helps in building up stamina. Skip for a minute then jog slowly for another minute in order to recover, then skip again for another minute. Initially do this for at least 4 to 5 minutes. Each week try to increase the amount of time you skip so that you can easily skip for 10 minutes or more.

You can also try other exercises like running on the spot for 5 minutes daily. Run for a minute, then rest for 20-30 seconds. Keep repeating until you have run for at least … Read the rest