Football
Football specific training
The following Sports Coach pages provide information specific to the sport of Football:
- Advice on Stretching for Football by Taylor Tollison
- Acceleration techniques and speed development
- Agility Training to meet the demands of field games
- Energy demands of football
- Fitness Levels of Premier League Footballers
- Fluid Replacement
- Football Practice - how to get football fit
- Football Injuries
- Football Players' Accessories
- Free-Kick Technique Tips
- How goalkeepers can improve their concentration between the sticks.
- Hip flexors - the most underdeveloped muscle group in strength training
- How to choose your football boots
- How to Prepare Your Body and Mind for a Football Match
- How to prepare a football training program
- How to win the penalty mind game
- How to improve the function of the hamstring muscle group for speed
- How to improve your soccer strength and speed (power)
- Importance of strength training in football
- Interval training for the game's player
- Interval Training for football players
- Kicking Accuracy
- Level of fitness required for any aspiring professional football player
- Low Down on Aussie Rules Football
- Nutritional advice for football players
- Medicine ball workouts that can do wonders for your running velocity and power
- Soccer Coaching Guide
- Soccer Shopping Guide
- Strength training can improve kicking power, sprint speed and jumping ability
- Training Program - 40 yard Dash
- Find a Coach
Developing a training programme
You will find the following pages helpful in developing your Football fitness training program.
Planning the training
- How to prepare your training program
- Example training program
- Performance Profiling - how to identify weaknesses in your skills
General strength development
- Circuit Training - develops strength and endurance
- Weight Training program using dumbbells
- Weight Training program using free weights and machines
- Weight Training program for sprinters - uses Olympic lifts
Developing elastic strength
- Plyometrics
- Plyometric Exercises - Arms
- Plyometric Exercises - Legs
- Plyometrics High-Intensity Exercises - Legs
- Complex Training - using weights and plyometrics exercises
General conditioning
- Developing your Core Stability - Abdominals and lower back
- Conditioning exercises for the legs
- Conditioning exercises for the lower legs
- Conditioning exercises for the upper body
Agility training
Some of these pages contain performance evaluation tests, but they also make good training sessions.
Speed development
Endurance training - cardiovascular development
- Developing your VO2 max
- Interval and continuous training
- Hill training
- Training with a heart rate monitor - Training Zones
Nutrition
- Nutrition - determining your daily requirements
- What to eat when training and competing
- Nutritional tips
- Sports Drinks
Psychology
- Sports psychology
- Relaxation techniques
- Overview of mental imagery
- Mental imagery - developing the skill