By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to improve players’ ability to recover between high intensity actions in a most efficient way. This will allow players to sustain the quality (speed and strength) of their actions for longer throughout the game. These physical outcomes are achieved in a highly technically demanding game containing a lot
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By Alex Trukan The following practice includes a simple 2v1 scenario with an overlap run. This is realistic and relevant picture which happens all over the pitch, from full back overlapping winger to central midfielder overlapping the striker. From the conditioning point of view, the practice develops explosive power which is the foundation to improve
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By Alex Trukan The ability to accelerate and be explosive is one of the key physical components in football that make a difference in the game. It is needed both in defence when recovering and pressurising as well as in attack when trying to beat a defender. This practice focuses on this conditioning element altogether
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By Alex Trukan This practice has multi outcomes in all corners of the game. Firstly, from the conditioning point of view, it develops explosiveness and power. That is especially required when breaking through defences and around the opposition penalty box. From the technical perspective, it includes elements of passing, combination play as well as finishing.
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By Alex Trukan The presented game is aimed at improving players’ ability to produce more high intensity actions throughout the game. This is achieved in a conditioned game which has elements of defensive transition, combination play as well as recovery runs. The organisation of this practices challenges players to react quickly when losing possession as
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to improve Anaerobic energy system which is responsible for short-duration, high intensity actions during a match. Therefore, players will develop their ability to produce high quality explosive bursts, which may be useful when applying pressure on the ball or doubling up to win the possession back. From the
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By Alex Trukan This practice is focused on improving players’ explosiveness and anaerobic power. It is crucial conditioning component which is for example used when losing the ball and making transition to defence and during recovery runs. In addition to that, combination play element is incorporated to make the practice more realistic and add technical
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By Alex Trukan This game is focused on improving aerobic endurance as well as 1v1 duels. From the physical point of view, it helps players to maintain many actions throughout the whole game, what will enable them to be more involved and affect the game more even towards the end of it. From the technical
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to improve aerobic power in an engaging and fun way. Aerobic power is a physical component that helps to recover between high intensity actions (i.e. sprints) as quickly and as efficiently as possible. It is therefore a fundament to be able to produce high intensity actions as frequently
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By Alex Trukan The ‘Four Goal 1v1 Game’ helps the players to develop explosive power, an ability mainly used in 1v1 duels as well as when intercepting the ball or during shoulder to shoulder battles. It is evident all over the pitch that more explosive and powerful players get advantage and pose a real challenge
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to develop player’s ability to maintain speed and power of actions throughout the whole game. That is a crucial component of physicality as often the last minutes of the game is the time when the opposition is weakened and more disorganised. That is why, increasing players’ ability to
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to help the players in developing starting speed over short distances. That crucial ability often makes a difference between winning or losing a tackle or scoring a goal. Some players might be really quick over longer distances but that not always translates to football, where actions are short
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By Alex Trukan This game is developed to improve players’ aerobic power, an ability which serves as a fundament of other conditioning components as well as aids player’s ability to recover quickly and efficiently improving recovery capacity. From the technical point of view, it focuses on dribbling and decision making when to dribble and when
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By Alex Trukan This game is designed to improve players’ ability to recover quickly between high intensity actions by improving aerobic energy system power. It has also positive effect on agility (i.e. ability to change direction and speed) as well as spatial awareness. From the technical point of view, it is focused on developing recognition
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By Alex Trukan Starting speed is a physical quality that often makes the biggest visible difference in football games. Players able to accelerate over short distances and start the run powerfully gain immediate advantage over other players. That ability might be used in attack, for example when a striker makes a run past a defender
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Continue readingBy Alex Trukan The presented practice incorporates physical as well as technical and tactical focus of the game. From the conditioning point of view, it develops Explosive Power, which is needed to accelerate over short distances and win a sprinting race. That is relevant both for the attackers or defenders chasing for the ball, recovering
Continue readingBy Alex Trukan This practice focuses on developing an ability to produce more actions during the football match through developing aerobic energy system. Due to man to man marking scenario, the players will need to show strength as well as balance on the ball. From the technical and tactical point of view, it incorporates movements
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By Alex Trukan This practice combines 3v1 possession game and 1v1 scenario (striker vs defender) into a counter attack situation. It involves a lot of passing, movements to receive and most importantly forward runs off the ball. From the conditioning point of view, it focuses on the ability to repeatedly produce high intensity sprints sustaining
Continue readingBy Alex Trukan This simple practice is easy to organise and can be suitable for a variety of age groups and ability levels. It contains a lot of technical work focused on turning as well as incorporates an element of finishing. Physically, it develops power to change direction, accelerate and exploit space in front of
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By Alex Trukan This game involves a 1v2 situation with a recovering player from behind that creates a transition based scenario. It also challenges the attacker to make a decision to counter attack quickly before opposition gets organised. From the conditioning perspective, the practice is based around developing capacity to produce high intensity actions with
Continue readingBy Alex Trukan This modification of 1 v 1 scenario involves an option to use a teammate or go individually. It therefore creates more decision making than in a typical 1v1 situation and is more realistic to the game. From the conditioning point of view, it trains anaerobic energy system which is responsible for high
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By Alex Trukan This game is focused on developing aerobic power with high intensity running intervals. It is also very stimulating tactically as the players have to deal with numerous situations including both overload and underload scenarios. That makes the practice realistic to the game and engaging. From the pure technical point of view, it
Continue readingBy Alex Trukan This practice is a fun game that can suit all age groups, ability levels and can be adapted in many different ways. From a conditioning point of view, high intensity, short periods of work are designed to develop sprinting power that can be repeated in the game as many times as possible.
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