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Article Title: Soccer Training Tips: The Truth About Stretching Article Description: What if I told you that stretching as a part of soccer training tips is highly recommended by professional soccer coaches and is widely practiced by players in almost every sport? Soccer is a sport which is continuously growing and developing in its intricacy. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 558 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> Soccer Training Tips: The Truth About Stretching © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) What if I told you that stretching as a part of soccer training tips is highly recommended by professional soccer coaches and is widely practiced by players in almost every sport? Soccer is a sport which is continuously growing and developing in its intricacy. In kids training for soccer, there are two types of stretching, dynamic and static stretching that are integrated. Static stretching requires players to stretch their muscles to a point of resistance and hold for a given duration of time. When it comes to dynamic stretching, recurring motions, rhythmic bouncing, and rebounding is what the player does. In comparison with static stretching, it is more risky and less useful. This article discusses some benefits of stretching that go a long way in making a good player great. Stretching reduces injuries: Constant stretching by players during the day and continuing it over a period of time helps the growth of their muscles, thus diminishing the risk of injury. Stretching provides a way of growing the muscle mass and strength as well. Stretching influences flexibility: Stretching puts off the loss of flexibility. Still, the effects of stretching are way better when it is done for a long period of time than for a shorter duration. Stretching increases flexibility when it is performed for a few minutes before any soccer activity. When it comes to soccer training tips, the best bet is to distribute a stretching program over a predetermined length of time to continuously increase the range of motion. Stretching betters performance: When the stretching program is planned after considering the players soccer specific needs, their performance improves. Stretching can be great fun for the kids: If you include a lot of different types of soccer drills in your practice sessions, it can be a lot of fun. Keep changing the warm up activities that are performed before stretching. Try various activities like tag games, ball tag, and keep away. Contemplate on the stretching, sense and know each stretch, along with checking for stiffness in the body. One 15-30-second stretch for each muscle group is sufficient for most players, but some kids require longer stretches and more repetitions as well. This is because when the temperature of muscles is higher than normal, tightness decreases and extensibility increases. Kids who feel like to keep up or enhance their flexibility can realize this goal to some extent by stretching. Its advisable to perform stretching exercises when the body temperature is higher than normal as it is safer and more useful. This is why some coaches tend to make their kids perform stretching exercises after a workout as well. Stretching for five minutes after practicing soccer skills prevents muscles from tightening too fast. Normally, players who perform an active warm-up previous to stretching get an enhanced range of motion than the ones who simply stretch. So if injury prevention is your aim, stop stretching before exercise and increase the warm up time. Some food for thought; one of the most important soccer training tips is that hurried stretching is meaningless and boring and doesn't help your players gain flexibility, so allow them some extra time when they are feeling inflexible or stiff. Join our youth soccer coaching community and enhance your knowledge about soccer through loads of articles, videos, and podcasts available there. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 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