| How do you successfully improve your soccer | | | | stalls. |
| speed? | | | | To further improve, strength needs to be increased. |
| This question has been asked a million times, by a | | | | Then one can get back to speed and power-work. |
| million soccer players, teams, AND coaches. When | | | | Another important tip: Emphasize that which gives the |
| you visit another football team, one of the big | | | | most return for time and effort invested, ie.: focus your |
| questions is:"How do YOU train?" | | | | soccer-specific training on that which is most |
| What do you do? Sprint-Training? Plyometrics? Agility | | | | improvable. Strength is many many times more |
| Drills? Just play the game of football? | | | | improvable than pure speed. What that means in real |
| To improve speed for soccer, one has to understand | | | | world terms is: mainly work on strength, with the right |
| the physiological basis for speed and power. That | | | | kind of speed and power-work injected at the right |
| basis is strength. | | | | time and place, and in the right amounts. |
| It's simple: To get faster you must first get stronger. | | | | That way your power, speed and quickness will |
| That doesn't mean to say that you shouldn't do | | | | continue to improve, and so will your game. |
| Speed-(read: Sprinting)and Power-Work; you should. | | | | Success in football/soccer is determined by many |
| Power/Explosiveness for example, is basically a | | | | things, one of them is to be there first! Quote Al |
| function of Strength x Speed. If you sprint you get | | | | Vermeil of the Chicago Bulls: "It's basically all about |
| faster. If you do explosive work you get faster..... up to | | | | who gets there the fastest, and under controll. |
| a certain point, and then things plateau out, progress | | | | |