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Training - Soccer Fitness

Watch a training video on soccer fitness with a ball. The video shows a fun soccer fitness with a ball and demonstrates the type of stretches a coach should incorporate into a warm up soccer fitness session: See an interactive, 3D animated drill on soccer fitness: There is also a printable chalkboard soccer fitness session which you can print out and take to training with you.

Please take the time to access this coaching information on soccer fitness and to watch the Tour Videos to fully appreciate what a membership to Grassrootscoaching.com offers.

Soccer Fitness tips

Players do not need to run laps around the pitch to achieve soccer specific fitness. It is boring for the players and will not really develop specific soccer, game related fitness. During a match a midfield player could run up to seven miles at various speeds and intensity. With the help of our soccer fitness experts, we have designed fun and innovative soccer fitness training drills with many involving sessions that use the ball in realistic game situations to improve the players’ game related soccer fitness, whilst also improving soccer skills and techniques.

Why Warm Ups are important for soccer fitness:

• Soccer Fitness Warm Up – It prepares the muscles and the body for the upcoming training or match. 
• Fitness for Soccer Warm Up – Will gradually raise the body temperature by circulating blood to the main soccer related muscles providing oxygen and fuel to prepare for more strenuous exercise. 
• Soccer Fitness Warm Up – Gives time to provide a focus for the players mind and improves concentration levels. 
• Fitness for Soccer Warm Ups – Enables the players to prepare mentally for the upcoming game or soccer training session
• Warm ups for soccer fitness– Ensures that young players develop good habits which they can implement during their career

Cool downs and their importance for soccer fitness:

• Soccer Fitness Cool Downs – Will assist players to overcome muscle stiffness and soreness after an intense soccer training session or game. 
• Cool Downs- Gives an opportunity for players to re hydrate. 
• Soccer Fitness Cool Downs – Will help rid the body of toxins and lactic acid. 
• Cool Downs- Enables a coach to talk to the players providing a period of reflection and assessment for the players and the coach after the match or training session. 

The Grassrootscoaching soccer fitness training curriculum covers:

• Warm Ups for matches and training
• Static and dynamic stretching and flexibility
• Cool downs for training and matches
• Training for agility and speed
• Fun  soccer fitness drills with the ball 
• Training for power and strength
• Sessions on  improving endurance and stamina    

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This soccer fitness video will help you coach, understand and structure a fun soccer fitness warm up with the ball.

Taken from our members' area of soccer fitness, this is an interactive, 3D animated soccer fitness drill called "Fetch the ball"

All members have access to our planning and design software called "Coaches Chalkboard". Click on to access a soccer fitness session that you can print out and take to training