WORLD CLASS COACHING Pre-Season Conditioning By Alex Trukan TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Two 1V1'S FOR POWER 3V3+2 TURNING GAME 2V2 LEAGUE 1V1'S FOR SPEED 1v1’s to Develop Power to Accelerate Week: 5 This practice is focused on improving maximal explosiveness of the action. It will help players to gain advantage over opposition in running duels and
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By Anthony Hazelwood Defend in a Deep Lying Block Defense – Aerobic Power. Defend in a Deep Lying Block Defense – Aerobic Power. The following activity coaches a team to defend in a deep lying block defense. The specific fitness target is transient endurance while adapting the player’s aerobic power in an extended small-sided format.
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By Mike Smith So many good things come from basic triangle passing. 2 players can use wall passing in triangle shapes to consistently move the ball. 3 players moving in triangles adds even more to the equation. And, many times during a game, a team will find itself with its back 4 holding a line, 2
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By Anthony Hazelwood The following activity is a short intensive finishing and defending exercise intended to train the players explosive and soccer specific muscle strength. The specific fitness target is intermittent endurance while adapting the player’s anaerobic capacity in a small sided group format. In this activity, groups of players go through three sequences: Muscle
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By Mike Smith While so much of success in sports comes down to strength and conditioning, even in the best team environments running for conditioning is on the low end of favorite player activities. I have found it astonishing over the years how many players love soccer, but hate running. Unfortunately for those players, soccer is,
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By Alex Trukan The following practice is aimed at improving players’ repetitive short sprinting power. This conditioning element is responsible for maintaining the quantity of high intensity actions throughout the whole game. Therefore, players will be able to make sprints and bursts even towards the end of the match without loss in its’ quality. The
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By Anthony Hazelwood The following activity is a long intensive and non-directional possession exercise aimed to train the speediness of play on a mental, physical, technical, and tactical level. On a tactical level, coaching emphasis should be on ball circulation and player movement. Although players are initially placed in a particular formation (2-1-2 or 1-3-1),
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By Alex Trukan The following practice is focused on improving explosive power – a conditioning component required to produce high intensity actions during a football match. Improving explosive power means that the body will be able to take a larger amount of ATP (energy) into muscles. This will in turn help in producing as explosive
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By Anthony Hazelwood This is a continuation of activities described in Part I The Midfielders: (Section D): 3 vs. 4: Defending in numerical inferiority. Area Size: 18 yd. x 23 yd. Intervals: 8. Activity Time – First Part: 1 minute. Rest between total activity time (first part and second part): 45 Seconds. Intensity: High. The
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By Alex Trukan This practice is aimed at developing players’ ability to produce high intensity actions with possibly shortest recovery time in between them. This happens through improving refuelling time of ATP (energy) after anaerobic actions such as sprints, accelerations or quick bursts over short and medium distances. Therefore, if the energy will be available
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By Anthony Hazelwood The following practice is a soccer specific, small sided and muscle tension training activity geared towards strengthening the player’s muscles and increasing their anaerobic capacity. Players are placed in their functional areas and will perform repetitive soccer specific and muscle tension movements in a functional 1-4-3-3 formation. When preparing the activity, if
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By Alex Trukan This practice is focused on improving explosiveness in sprinting and changing direction with the ball. It challenges players to run with the ball at maximal intensity and then be able to twist and turn before a finish. These physical abilities are crucial to win attacking running duels as well as to accelerate
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By Alex Trukan This practice improves players’ explosive power which is needed to win a running duel or to quickly recover back into position after losing the ball. This is improved as the body is challenged to get more energy (ATP) which is then used as a fuel. The more efficiently body uses the energy,
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By Scott Housden - Conditioning for goalkeepers is key throughout the season, and not just during pre-season. Specificity is also a key element for goalkeeper fitness. This is achievable by utilising specific traits that a goalkeeper undertakes during a game such as, short sprints, diving and recovering from dives. The drill below is superb for allowing
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By Alex Trukan This practice significantly improves players’ aerobic power system which is responsible for recovery between high intensity actions and serves as a basis for all other physical components’ development. In this practice, this is achieved using extensive interval training which challenges and improves players’ recovery time between high intensity actions (quicker recovery). The
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By Alex Trukan What your FB and winger need to realize is they are connected, they are a unit. One player’s movement relates to the others and they should work together to manipulate the opposition FB. If both players stay on the line when attacking, their options of moving the ball forwards would be limited.
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By Alex Trukan The following game is focused on developing players’ Aerobic Power, an ability which is fundamental to developing all other physical attributes, serving as body’s recovering system between high intensity actions and bursts. Strong aerobic system ensures proper oxygen supply to muscles as well as improved lungs capacity and blood circulation. This training
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to develop Explosive Power which is responsible for sharp sprints to the ball, running duels or 2v2 transition scenarios. This kind of training leads to improved body’s ability to use fuel (ATP) and therefore, produce more powerful and explosive actions. The following practice achieves this in a 2v2
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By Alex Trukan The following practice helps players to improve their starting speed. The difference between winning and losing is often decided by marginal gains. One of the key fitness components that might significantly influence outcomes in a football game is speed. Due to the nature of the game, speed in football is most often
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By Alex Trukan This practice is aimed at developing explosive power – fitness component responsible for quick bursts to the ball, 1v1 duels and sharp recovery after losing the ball. This conditioning component is improved by developing body’s ability to use more fuel, leading to delivering more explosive power. This is achieved in a 1v2
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By Alex Trukan This shooting combination practice involves working on starting speed around the penalty box. This is important for players in order to gain advantage near the goal and be able to get to the ball before the defender. This in turn will help players to get into more goal scoring situations and eventually,
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By Alex Trukan The practice is aimed at developing players’ anaerobic endurance which is the ability to repeat and maintain the quantity of actions throughout the whole game. This means that players will be able to be highly involved even towards the end of the game. In addition to that, the practice contains elements of
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