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Article Title: Weight Training Soccer: Discover Winning Strategies Article Description: You might disagree, but hear me out on this. You can greatly benefit from weight training soccer when coaching your players in a sport that requires a lot of strength, and, or explosive power. Even players for whom strength and power is not a main attribute tend to benefit from strong abdominal and lower back muscles. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 505 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> Weight Training Soccer: Discover Winning Strategies © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) Probability you might not believe this, but just hear me out on this. The play which requires excessive power, and, or explosive power, Weight training soccer is vital while coaching these players. For player who do not require strength and power that much can also take advantage of strong abdominal and lower back muscles. In this article you will find the basic concept of weight training for soccer using simple techniques for applying those concepts. During soccer strength training, Specificity is a very important concept. The concept of this is to coach the players to put more time in working out in a way resembling their play on the field. Take for example running and swimming, a great exercise for runners and swimmers respectively. To improve power, speed is an important aspect in training. A number of thing which are important while planning weight training programs are the players role in team sports, their age, physical and mental capacity to take stress, and the level at which they are to play. When this kind of information is available to a coach while planning a fitness training program, it ensures a good start. Such exercises should be planned for physical conditioning which improves specific training. Like for developing aerobic and strength and power fitness exercises, running and weight lifting are also performed by swimmers. Injury prevention is another aspect of weight training soccer that is often overlooked. The effects of injury prevention are not evident directly but they are essential in players performance and confirm that the player is fit to play at the most important occasions of the calendar. A sport like soccer includes activities such as running, sprinting, turning and twisting, side-stepping, going for a hit. The muscle chain that is required in these movements named as the "anterior and posterior chain," should be exercised to build strength, stability and power. The most useful workouts are the core lifts, like squats and deadlifts for forming these muscles. A comprehensive soccer fitness program giving due stress upon these two core lifts should work miracles for leg, hip, back and abdominal strength. The program can also consist of swimming to highlight the areas of shoulders, arms and back muscles. Usually strength enhancing programs include heavy weight lifting with few repetitions. Some sports require bulk and strength while some others have to ensure they combine adequate strength with mobility, speed and stamina like a mid-fielder in soccer. Even if primary strength, power or endurance gains are absent, developing particular muscle groups would also help to increase performance. They are the lower back and hamstrings, and the quadriceps muscles that help knee joint function. So there you have it. Keep these points in mind when weight training soccer since football is a sport for which you may not initially consider weights to be an advantage. You should consider joining our youth soccer coaching society that has a plethora of informative articles, weekly newsletters, and videos to help you better understand the concepts of youth coaching. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Andre Botelho is a recognized authority in youth soccer coaching. Learn how to explode your players' skills and make training more fun in record time. Download your free youth soccer coaching guide at http://www.soccerdrillstips.com <----- Article Ends Here -----> ------------------------------------ This group is no longer maintained. It only exists for the archives. Please submit your articles at http://www.pickbrains.com/submit-article instead. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
