| If you interested in playing football (or soccer as it is | | | | most lively of player will be running and then stopping |
| known in the US) or if you are an experienced player, | | | | as the game will have natural stoppages for things |
| you might already realise that there is a lot of wrong | | | | such as injuries, free-kicks and corners. Interval training |
| information and routines that are used by | | | | will prepare the average footballer much better for this |
| unknowledgeable football trainers. Every football player | | | | type of stop/start type of sport. |
| and coach must try and educate himself that training | | | | Unfortunately, this type of old fashioned thinking is still |
| methods have evolved. Now it is time to use modern | | | | quite common amongst football trainers and coaches. |
| and sophisticated physical training programs for getting | | | | Unlike marathon runners, a football player needs to act |
| the desired fitness and strength to play the game well. | | | | fast and change direction all of the time. He simply will |
| One of the most common football fitness mistakes is | | | | not get enough strength for playing football by training |
| doing long distance running. Many people still | | | | to be a marathon runner. |
| recommend running for long distances for footballers | | | | You still here stories of poor training methods such as |
| and many teams still use this as part of their overall | | | | the player who was forced to run around five |
| fitness program. | | | | kilometers per day on a concrete track as part of his |
| The truth is long distance running is not needed for the | | | | exercise routine. This type of training can cause strain |
| football fitness. The sad part is, those recommending | | | | and stress injuries, and also can be mentally dulling. |
| long distance running often have good football as far | | | | These mistakes that can cause injury should be |
| as skills and tactics are concerned, but have little | | | | avoided at all costs when you are formulating a |
| knowledge of fitness. There are also so called online | | | | soccer fitness program. |
| soccer gurus who recommend long distance running | | | | Football players don't have the same type of attributes |
| for football fitness, and yet they only really interested in | | | | as athletes have for running long distances. In reality, it |
| selling badly researched information products to | | | | will run the risk of adversely affecting both a |
| amateur footballers. | | | | footballer's physical and mental capacity. |
| It may seem counter-intuitive but if you are a serious | | | | Soccer training must done with small intervals including |
| football player and you want to get good fitness, you | | | | jogging, sprinting, dribbling etc. For practice, soccer |
| should avoid mistakes such as long distance running | | | | players can play small games where they can do lot |
| one-paced non-explosive running. | | | | more stopping and direction changing. These |
| A good soccer fitness program should consist of | | | | movements will of course help them to react fast in |
| interval training and sprints. As you know, there is no | | | | the game. Soccer is not a nonstop game and a player |
| player that runs for the entire game time. Even the | | | | needs to train to recover his strength in intervals. |