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Soccer training: Before putting on your soccer shoes, read these articles for the latest in soccer training and coaching soccer. With a bit of know-how, soccer players can increase their performance, and thus their overall soccer skills and soccer techniques… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

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Football Training Drills for Improving Energy Systems During Pre-season

Football Tips and Exercises to Make You Ready for the New Season

Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation

The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics

Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further

Using safety gear in the gym

Using safety gear in the gym

Use the safety gear that is on quality equipment

Zig Zag Sprints

Zig Zag Sprints

A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete.

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.

Lateral Ladder Drill

Lateral Ladder Drill

Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.

Lateral Zig Zags

Lateral Zig Zags

One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.

Agility Drill 1

Agility Drill 1

This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.

Agility Drill 3

Agility Drill 3

This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.

Agility Drill 4

Agility Drill 4

Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.

Agility Drill 9

Agility Drill 9

This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.

Ankle injuries are more common than hamstring tears in footballers

Ankle injuries can be tackled by proprioception training

Head injuries in Football

No long-term risk from concussion in football

Soccer players' balance is inferior

Comparison of standing balance in dancers and football players

Prevent Ankle Injuries

A simple way to predict ankle risk

Hamstring injuries: A Study

Hamstring injury solution?

Football 'Throw-ins': Attaining maximum distance

Attaining maximum distance in football ‘throw-ins’

Sport Books: Football, Rugby, and more

Six of the best sports books of 2005

Football Player Injuries - Are they becoming more frequent?

Football injuries - are they really on the rise?

The Importance of Proprioceptive Training

Proprioception – taking a balanced approach to sport

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Facts

New findings on ACL injuries in soccer

Football coaching - half time psychology

Make sure your football coaching mentally prepares you for the second half!

Caring For Your Spine

Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape

Skills Based Training: Female Games Players

Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training

Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?

Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power

tournament football

Tournament Football : What Sven can learn from research in the lead-up to the 2006 World Cup

Mathematics of Sport

Mathematics Of Sport Book Review

strength football

Strength training for footballers

acetabular labrum tears

Acetabular labrum tears - a right pain in the groin

hamstring strains

Hamstring strains

football children

Why football is good for children

hamstring exercise

Hamstring exercise for hamstrings of steel

sports vision training

Sports vision - How enhancing your vision can give you that extra edge in competition

soccer fitness training

Soccer fitness training: Endurance training boosts performance in the field

sport specific weight training

Sport specific weight training

Knee joints

Knee Joints: Knee instability has more to do with work than sport

Winter training 1

Winter Training 1: Rebuild your body this winter - without expensive exercise equipment

Fitness for football

Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field

Rest And Recovery

Rest And Recovery: How do you know when you're at risk of overtraining? It's a simple matter of how well you feel, sleep
and eat

Exercise equipment

Exercise Equipment: Is treadmill training a help or hindrance for the serious athlete?

bilateral co-ordination | training

Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player

football | penalty taking | soccer

Football - penalty taking: How to win the
shoot-out mind game

referees

Pity the poor referee - he gets all of the stress and none of the lolly

Fluid replacement

Fluid Replacement: Regular topping-up is far more than a matter of just quenching thirst.

Pressure training sessions

Pressure Training Sessions: How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs.

Nutrition for soccer players

Nutrition for soccer players: How soccer players can overcome the second-half slump.

Interval training

Interval Training: By separating your efforts with short bouts of recovery, you can keep the intensity high, yet extend the volume.

The eyes: soccer

The Eyes: Soccer: What makes a topnotch football player different from a mediocre performer? One key difference is in the way their eyes move, according to researchers at the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester.

Eating before competition

Eating Before Competition: Can you give your performance an edge by fuelling up before exercise? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes it can even have a negative effect. Here are the guidelines.

Speed parachutes

Speed Parachutes: Displaying their bold maize and blue colors, the chutes billow out behind runners during workouts, attached by cords to the athletes' chests.

Soccer Refs

Top flight soccer refs cover 11k-plus per match, says new study

Shin splints 1

Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems

Physiology & performance

What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance

Longevity

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

Training dietary regimes

Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

shin splints treatment

Shin Splints Treatment: How to strengthen the lower parts of your legs, and prevent (or repair) shin splints problems

Leg strength | knee injury risks

Leg strength and knee injury risks for endurance athletes: If you're a footballer, your knees are most at risk towards the end of a match.

Stretching Flexibility Exercises 1

Stretching Flexibility Exercises 1: What science has to say about the performance benefits of flexibility training

hamstring exercises | hamstring stretches

Hamstring exercises: How to keep your hamstrings in tune and singing sweetly

Heredity, genes and sports performance

Heredity, Genes And Sports Performance: Dad, mum and you - how much do your genes really influence your performances?

Stored elastic energy

Stored Elastic Energy: Imagine the athletes' muscles are like the rubbery part of a catapult...

Cross Training Workouts

Cross Training Workouts

Cross Training Workouts

Cross Training Workouts

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