Speed ladder trainingis an amazing way to build quickness, agility, and foot speed. Soccer players in particular swear by the speed ladder as an indispensable part of their lower body workout. Drills have been built around this thing that has catapulted teams to stardom. So, if you’re a ...
This is one of the three basic pillars of your training. Play soccer a lot, but also do other different types of exercises. Plan what exercises you can do to improve things like endurance, speed, or strength since they are all equally important. To train your physique, you can go to a...
Imagine you’re a soccer player looking to improve your sprinting, speed, and jumping ability: 1. Heavy Compound Movement: Weighted Back Squat – 2 reps at 85% of 1RM to build maximum strength. 2. Plyometric Movement: Box Jumps – 5 reps to enhance explosive power. 3. Speed-Strength Move...
Soccer is a sport that uses both aerobic (longer runs) and anaerobic (shorter explosive runs) capacity of your body. Making sure you've got both up to a high level is so critical. A simple aerobic fitness test for soccer players is the cooper test (run as far as you can in 12minutes...
While the back squat should be your bread and butter you should also mix in variations of squats, such as sumo squats, single let squats, jumps squats, and squat to overhead press. These will help you to build explosive power, balance, and stability. ...
Base Stealing: Base runners need explosive bursts of speed to steal bases successfully. Cleats provide the grip necessary to get a jump on the pitcher’s delivery and maintain momentum during the sprint to the next base. Stability Stability is intertwined with traction, and together, they form ...
1. For my moderate intensity cardio, I decided to walk at 4.0 speed on a 7.5% incline on the treadmill for 30 minutes. This burned a little over 300 calories. 2. When I say “3 Drop sets of seated rows. 10 reps each,” start with a heavier weight and do 10 reps of seated rows...
To achieve this level of speed, Messi has had to work on being powerful and explosive as well as having stability through his torso, hips, and ankles. He has also trained on the technique of delivering this power in the right direction to efficiently maximize his speedy outbursts. ...
From inside the arena, so much of the explosive growth around the sport has felt invigorating and emotional, while other parts of it have felt, on the one hand, charged and polarizing, and, on the other, so…branded and generic. I want there to be investment in women’s sports not ...
Top running backs individualize their workouts in a number of ways. Although Chris Johnson and Ray Rice, star of the 2012 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, both incorporate lots of plyometrics -- jumping, leaping and bounding exercises to develop explosive speed and power -- into their off-...