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Share Are you an AC Milan fan? Do you have aspiration of being a Soccer coach? How about learning “a Day in the Life” of a Professional European Soccer player? My friend is hosting a full time "Coaching and training week". It’s a complete training program with the AC Milan “Serie A” team, with the [...]
Share I lose so many of my good athletes to soccer. Conversely, I get a lot of “washed up” soccer players at age 17 who didn’t make the cut professionally (or amateur leagues). It’s a cruel world out there, what can I say? If you are interested in becoming a professional soccer player in Europe [...]
Share So you want to be a professional Soccer player? or Football player? Do you have dreams of playing soccer in Europe? Then save this date: Feb 5-10, 2012 Here’s your chance to qualify for a professional soccer (football) tryouts in Europe. If you are between the ages of 16-18, or even as young as [...]
Share Here are two great videos for coaching sprinting as well as understanding sprinting. John Pryor is a Biomechanist and Strength & Conditioning coach in Australia. Primarily his focus is in International Rugby, but his passion is speed (like most of us). How to get faster is the Holy Grail for all strength, power and [...]
Share Sten and I would like to thank all the beta testers who took the time to evaluate the latest fitness tester for iOS devices. You may recall we had a call-out for the iPhone, iPad and iPod FitnessMeter: Beta Testers Wanted. The company, Appmaker, also makes the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race [...]
Share I love determining 10 meter splits to calculate maximum velocity and the amount of degradation over the final parts of the race. Can the adidas miCoach Speed_Cell record 10 meter Splits? With the popularity of Garmin watches for distance runners, it’s no wonder we are now seeing this technology for speed events, and not [...]
Share This is part 2 of the series on Speed Training Tips. Part 1 discussed choosing to train your strength or weakness. Truth be told, you need to work on acceleration development at some point, and not 10×200 hard until butt-lock. Here are some examples of the drills we do. Feel free to copy them [...]
Share 2011 will be remembered as the Year if the Methylhexaneamine positive tests coming directly from products containing Methylhexaneamine or resulting from supplement contamination. I heeded a warning last year in my 4 part series on Sports Drinks. Let’s recap the year in review… 2010 Commonwealth Games women’s 100m winner Damola Osayemi of Nigeria… India [...]
Share This is Part 5 in the series called Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting. Part 1 Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting was simply to demonstrate the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 of this series covered How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. [...]
Share (A lot of SpeedEndurance.com readers are Arsenal FC fans, so I am posting this on their behalf. Enjoy!) The Arsenal home shirt for the 2011-12 season features a new bespoke crest that marks the club’s 125th anniversary year – and looks forward to the club’s next chapter as the most environmentally-friendly kit Nike has [...]
Share The Nike Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III is the seventh generation of Mercurial which continues a legacy of providing players with cutting edge innovation that delivers incredibly lightweight, fast, and responsive performance on the pitch. Informed by insight from some of the world’s fastest players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Alexandre Pato, the Nike design team [...]
Share Building on the classic heritage of Nike Safari print featured in Cristiano Ronaldo’s first signature boot and high-performance innovation that is the hallmark of Mercurial, the CR Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III features a striking tonal black-on-black safari print, inspired by the Nike Air Safari running shoe introduced in 1987 and still coveted today. The [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com When it comes to the way we plan and setup our soccer practices, there is one important rule to follow: Never perform 2 High Intensity Soccer Training days in a row No matter what age or level you are coaching, adding in 2 high [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com The biggest problem today when it comes to soccer speed is probably the lack of understanding on how to improve it, and actually, the fact that you can improve it. The biggest myth when it comes to speed training in general today is the [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com In this article I’ll share something with you that very often is either forgotten or ignored – a proper warm-up. You see, when it comes to improving soccer speed and soccer agility, we are often so caught up in what exercises, skills or drills [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com Are you confused and don’t know what step to take in order to take your soccer speed to the next level? To start with, it all comes down to the basics. Let me explain why. There’s been some pretty heated discussions now for a [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com Do you as a coach feel the importance of acceleration in the game of soccer, but due to information-overload out there, you don’t know who to listen to or what methods to follow? I don’t blame you. According to research, most of the youth [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com The reason I got into primarily speed training for soccer players was due to my own experience as a young soccer player. At the age of 15 I was extremely fast and explosive, and if I haven’t injured my ACL it could most likely [...]
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Share There was a guy named Scott Powell, who used to sing in a Rock and Roll group from 1969 until he left for medical school in 1980 at Columbia University. Today, Dr. Scott Powell is a member of the medical staff of U.S. National Soccer teams, and is the team physician for the Federation [...]