Soccer Goalkeeper Training
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Dr. Joe Machnik’s Fitness Goalkeeping and Tactics, Volume 2 (Soccer) Dr. Joe Machnik is the world leading authority on goalkeeping. Dr. Machnik covers Angle Play; Reading the Game; Saving Breakaways; Using the Wall for Kickboard for Reflex Training; Footwork; Penalty Kicks; Pressure Training…. |
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Ball Hog Soccer Series, Volume 3 (Advanced Goal Keeper Training) … |
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Soccer – Goalkeeper Training for Speed, Coordination & Strength [VHS] $24.95 … |
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Soccer Coaching:34 Soccer Goalie Drills $16.99 “This DVD provides numerous creative drills that some of the best soccer goalkeepers in the world use to perfect and enhance their skills.”… |
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Winning Soccer: Goalkeeper Training $17.86 The Winning Soccer Volume 7: Goalkeeper Training DVD illustrates the essential goalkeeping skills used when receiving low, medium and high balls, when diving to make an acrobatic save, when boxing the uncatchable high ball, and when distributing the ball accurately and effectively to teammates…. |
Goalkeeper Training
Soccer Conditioning – The 6 Elements
Soccer is an athletic sport and it has become more than a game that awards the player with the best ball skills. Improving your body and your physical traits, as well as chiseling your physical weaknesses is extremely important in modern day soccer and the field that tends to all these aspects is called soccer conditioning.
Soccer conditioning is actually made up of 6 concepts, or sub-sections if you will. The warm up, strength, power, endurance, agility and speed training are key components to a full soccer conditioning program. I won’t go into too much detail about them with the article at hand, but what I do want to do is give you a glimpse on what each component is, how it benefits you as a soccer player (or your players if you’re a coach) and how it can be improved.
-Soccer Warm Ups
At the very beginning of soccer, players would warm up before a match individually and rather disorganized. Besides of a few common warm-up and stretching exercises, they depended on the first minutes of play to get them into the right condition to play at full potential.
Nowadays, warming up is given increasingly higher importance, because it helps a soccer player in two ways: it protects you from muscle injuries such as strains and ruptures and it brings you to your maximum playing ability as the match or training session begins. A third benefit comes from specific stretching exercises, that make you more agile and flexible, which is a great advantage for a soccer player in today’s lightning fast game.
-Soccer Strength
Strength is a crucial factor in soccer, since it affects several abilities used during a match, such as jumping, shooting, dribbling, shielding, balance, tackling or marking. Actually, strength is probably the only conditioning key component that is useful in the same measure for all players, regardless of their position on the pitch. Shielding is often confused with power, but as you will see below there’s a difference between the two.
-Soccer Power
Power can refer to one of three things in soccer: the power of your shots, the power of your headers and the power of your throws. Although strength does have an important role in determining these three attributes, you also need to have the right technique to make them work. So power is a combination between strength and technique.
For example, when kicking a ball towards the goal, strength will work towards a more powerful shot if you have trained out your abs, lower back and leg muscles, but at the same time you’ll need to kick the ball perfectly if you want to achieve a truly powerful and accurate shot. As a tire commercial once put it…power is nothing without control.
-Soccer Endurance
There are two types of endurance, short and long range. Short endurance refers to your ability to sprint longer and long endurance is more general and it helps you pull off an entire match. It’s important to know that endurance isn’t just about being able to run for the ball longer in a match. If you get tired, you will also have a harder time focusing on the game, jumping, tackling, dribbling, finishing and so forth. So having good endurance can help you get the best out of yourself for longer periods of time.
Note that it’s very hard to get to a level where you can run tirelessly even in the latter stages of the match. Even professional soccer players that are part of the most powerful clubs in the World tend to get tired around the 80th minute, or earlier if they played a high tempo game.
-Soccer Agility
Agility can help you on several levels in soccer. Goalkeepers will have better reflexes and they’ll be able to get to high balls quicker if they’re more agile. Defenders will be harder to dribble and their tackles will be more accurate and clean with the right level of agility. Midfielders can dribble with ease if they’re agile and strikers work well around their quickness in order to get in front of the defender and finish on crosses, or dribble their way to goal when possible.
-Soccer Speed
Just like with the power-strength confusion, some people tend to put an equality sign in between speed and agility. Whereas agility refers to quick reactions, speed refers to running at full throttle, on a longer distance. Actually, speed has two components: acceleration and top speed.
Acceleration lasts from the moment you start the sprint, to a second or two before you can reach top speed. Indeed, agility plays a crucial role in acceleration, but has little to do with top speed. So focusing on agility exercises may improve your acceleration, but your top speed is difficult to improve, since it’s determined by a formula involving your lower body strength, natural constitution and running technique.
About the Author
Niv Orlian is the author and the owner of a
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soccer conditioning.
A sedentary person during 4 years can become a professional football player at age 23?
Due to personal and work reasons, I stoped playing pro football (soccer in america) at age 19, and now, would like to know if training hard in 6 months am I capable to be fit? During the last 4 years I´ve been tottaly inactive, just working on the desk. Anyone with physiology or physical training knowledge can give me any information about how my body could react? I used to be a goalkeeper.
I am sure its possible.. but I think the real question is how much are you willing to sacrifice to get there….. and will 6 months be enough time… Do you have someone to push you in training? If not you might also consider how motivated you are to do this….
Does it seem like soccer aficionados speak a language all their own? It sure seems like it to me, and I’ve been playing the game for over 20 years. I put an article on the front page of this blog to help explain the most common soccer terms in plain English. Hopefully this list will help soccer moms everywhere (and soccer dads too, for that matter)to better understand what their little athlete is talking about! Click Here For Access: Soccer Terms.