Soccer Conditioning Drills
The term athletic training in soccer (or physical training) indicates a training method used to improve an athlete’s or team’s performance from a coordinative and conditioning point of view.
In soccer, athletic conditioning training is used to train general coordination skills (motor learning, motor control, motor transformation) and special coordination skills (motor combination, differentiation of muscular strength, balance, orientation, rhythm, response, adaptation). Athletic conditioning training is used to strengthen endurance, strength, quickness and speed. There is a further objective: soccer athletic training can prevent injuries linked to training load mismanagement (muscle-tendon injuries in particular).
In order to schedule the drills it is possible to follow a general and/or a specific sport programme. For example, soccer athletic training is important both for a player’s general endurance and a specific role endurance training. The same goes for other coordinative and conditioning abilities. Indeed, performance characteristics vary from sport to sport: soccer players’ endurance is different from runners’, as well as their strength differs from basketball players’ and their speed is different from tennis players’.
For this reason, before planning soccer athletic training, it is necessary to know the player’s performance model, including the peculiarities of the role. In this way athletic training will be targeted, specific and suitable for the team and the player.
Here you can find some soccer conditioning drills.
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Athletic Training
Physical Course - The Hexagon
Speed endurance - Athletic training including cognitive stimulation -
Athletic Training
Ball possession: From 4 vs 1 to 4 vs 4
Possession - Small sided game of ball possession to train lactacid physical workout and various technical and tactical skills -
Athletic Training
Motor circuit training to train speed development
Acyclic speed - A circuit used during preparation to train speed and resistance -
Athletic Training
Aerobic possession grids
Aerobic power - An intense ball possession inside ristricted playing areas -
Athletic Training
Circuit for physical training: increasing strength
Strength - Exercise to improve aerobic resistance and develop strength -
Athletic Training
Speed and pass - Chelsea FC
Passing - Technical motor circuit to train speed and pass -
Athletic Training
Passing and Resistance Training - FC Bayern Monaco
Aerobic capacity - Training players in moving clear the passing lines avoiding the opponent's marking -
Athletic Training
Physical circuit - Speed with cross pass and shooting at goal - Barcelona FC
Speed - Physical circuit from Barcelona FC, useful to train speed, passes in restricted spaces, crosses and shooting -
Athletic Training
Strength circuit - Barcelona FC
Strength - Directly from Barcelona FC, this exercise proposes a strength circuit with final shooting at goal -
Athletic Training
Coordinative training circuit with 4 stations
Coordination - Circuit to train coordination in soccer for different categories