Athletic Training
The term athletic training in soccer (or physical training) indicates a training method used to improve an athlete’s or team’s performance from a coordinative and conditioning point of view.
In soccer, athletic conditioning training is used to train general coordination skills (motor learning, motor control, motor transformation) and special coordination skills (motor combination, differentiation of muscular strength, balance, orientation, rhythm, response, adaptation). Athletic conditioning training is used to strengthen endurance, strength, velocity and speed. There is a further objective: soccer athletic training can prevent injuries linked to training load mismanagement (muscle-tendon injuries in particular).
In order to schedule the drills it is possible to follow a general and/or a specific sport programme. For example, soccer athletic training is important both for a player’s general endurance and a specific role endurance training. The same goes for other coordinative and conditioning abilities. Indeed, performance characteristics vary from sport to sport: soccer players’ endurance is different from runners’, as well as their strength differs from basketball players’ and their speed is different from tennis players’.
For this reason, before planning soccer athletic training, it is necessary to know the player’s performance model, including the peculiarities of the role. In this way athletic training will be targeted, specific and suitable for the team and the player.
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Athletic Training
Intensity: a fundamental parameter in training
26 March, 2020Education - The ability to maintain high levels of physical and mental intensity is a key concept in soccer -
Athletic Training
11 vs 11 on half field. The athletic point of view
26 March, 2020Physical Training - A personal analysis of a 11 vs 11 game on half field and its interpretation from the athletic point of view -
Athletic Training
Speed and agility - Juventus FC
19 March, 2019Speed - Speed and agility in the change of direction -
Athletic Training
Preparation for Muscle Strengthening With Natural Load Circuit Training
25 October, 2018Football conditioning - This soccer-specific course allows to work on strength and coordination parameters -
Athletic Training
Decision Making - Developing the Capacity of Decision under Pressure
27 September, 2017Header - Improve cognitive skills and decision-making under pressure, excellent exercise for overall warm up of the whole team -
Athletic Training
Quickness and cognitive ability with the speed ladder
27 September, 2017Cognitive - With this exercise we train quickness using the speed ladder and response to sensory stimulus -
Athletic Training
Explosive Strength - Multiple Jumps
27 September, 2017Strength - Exercise to train explosive strength with series of jumps -
Athletic Training
Physical warm up - FC Inter
27 September, 2017Speed - Useful warm up to activate the players both physically and mentally -
Athletic Training
Improve Aerobic Power through RSA
24 August, 2017Aerobic power - Improve Aerobic Power approaching the anaerobic threshold with a Repeated Sprint Ability exercise -
Athletic Training
Coordinative training circuit with 4 stations
31 July, 2017Coordination skills - Circuit to train coordination in soccer for different categories