Soccer Speed Training: The Basics

How do you successfully improve your soccer speed?

This question has been asked a million times, by a million soccer players, teams, AND coaches. When you visit another football team, one of the big questions is:“How do YOU train?“

What do you do?Sprint-Training?Plyometrics?Agility Drills?Just play the game of football?

To improve speed for soccer, one has to understand the physiological basis for speed and power.That basis is strength.

It‘s simple:To get faster you must first get stronger.That doesn‘t mean to say that you shouldn‘t do Speed-(read: Sprinting)and Power-Work; you should.

Power/Explosiveness for example, is basically a function of Strength x Speed.If you sprint you get faster. If you do explosive work you get faster..... up to a certain point, and then things plateau out, progress stalls.

To further improve, strength needs to be increased. Then one can get back to speed and power-work.

Another important tip:Emphasize that which gives the most return for time and effort invested, ie.: focus your soccer-specific training on that which is most improvable.Strength is many many times more improvable than pure speed.What that means in real world terms is: mainly work on strength, with the right kind of speed and power-work injected at the right time and place, and in the right amounts.

That way your power, speed and quickness will continue to improve, and so will your game.

Success in football/soccer is determined by many things, one of them is to be there first!Quote Al Vermeil of the Chicago Bulls:„It‘s basically all about who gets there the fastest, and under controll.“

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Ronaldo or Messi?!

Who do you think is the better Player, Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi?
To me it’s definitely Ronaldo!
Not only is he the most awesome player, also he is obviously training very hard to be in the best possible shape. That makes him the perfect role model for up-and-coming talent, in my opinion.

Whereas Messi is a great player but he evidently doesn’t do any extra conditioning.
That can send the wrong message: “You only have to play football to be good!”

Well, not so. For injury-prevention, and to get to the top of your potential, you need to do specialized physical development-training.
What that means in reality is that, yes, Messi is great, but with proper training, he might be even better!

That’s my take; what’s yours?
Just put in the name of your favourite player and –if you want- a couple of words explaining why.

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