Tag Archives for " Exercise "

0 Diagonal Finishing

This week's Animated Drills Video is of a finishing activity that puts the emphasis on accuracy and technique over power. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom

1 Open Up After Passing Back

This week's Animated Drills Video shows a great exercise to train your players to open up and receive a pass after playing the ball backward. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom

1 Continuous Turning Pattern

This week's Animated Drills Video shows a way to work on turning in a way that challenges the players to think about their next action. It can also be progressed easily as the players improve. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great

0 Running with the Ball

This week's Animated Drill Video shares a great environment for working on an often neglected skill, running with the ball. The same set-up can be used for the warm-up, technical practice, small-sided game and expanded small-sided game. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with our online Session Designer that is available through the Member Drills Database.

0 Switching Play Small-Sided Game

This week's Animated Drill Video highlights a great small-sided game environment that you can use for a complete training session. The session focuses on switching the point of attack to open space away from pressure. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with our online Session Designer that is available through the Member Drills Database. Please share

0 Teaching Players to Turn with the Ball

This week's Animated Drill Video features an exercise and progressions to teach your players to turn with the ball both without and with pressure. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with our online Session Designer that is available through the Member Drills Database. Please share your ideas for progressions or variations to train your players to

0 Movement Without the Ball

This week's Animated Drill Video I share an exercise and progressions to train your players HOW to move without the ball. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with our online Session Designer that is available through the Member Drills Database. Please share your ideas for progressions or variations to train your players to move without the

0 Technical 1 v 1 Game

This week's Animated Drill Video describes fast paced and competitive exercise that incorporates every technical skill of the game except heading. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with our online Session Designer that is available through the Member Drills Database. Please share your ideas for progressions and variations in the comments section below. Have a

1 Combination Play Exercise

A large part of teaching combination plays is teaching timing. The challenge is that timing is developed through an understanding of the basic principles and then getting the number of repetitions necessary to get a feel for the timing.

It's best to first teach the patterns of movement and basic principles of each combination play separately. The ones I focus on with young players are the give-and-go, overlap and layoff.

Once these have been learned and understood then I like to combine them into a pattern that allows for a lot of repetitions on both the left and the right side.

This setup is one that can be used for many passing activities from

5 First Touch Training in 'The Cage'

When I'm constructing an activity for a training session I try to make sure there is an opportunity for the players to work on their first touch. After all, every individual action begins with a first touch. A one touch pass is really just a controlled first touch to another player. I also like use

0 Warm-Up for Shooting

One of the perks of being apart of WORLD CLASS COACHING is that I have access to a large library of training sessions from some of the top professional, collegiate, and youth coaches. We have published books and DVDs on every aspect and topic of coaching. I often refer to our DVD especially for new

1 Maintaining Soccer Fitness Indoor

The indoor season provides a change of pace and focus that I think is good for player development but you don’t want to completely lose the base of fitness that was built during the outdoor season. The challenge is that you have a limited amount of space to work with when you’re training indoor. We