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Soccer fitness/nutrition advice

  • 03-03-2011 12:31am
    #1
    Glowla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Hey,
    So I play a bit of soccer and our league will be starting around end of march. train once a week for now with the team. I want to begin some gym training or running in the evenings to increase fitness(which isn't something to boast about at the moment! :P) Just wondering if I could get advice on what sort of exercises I should be doing to increase my performance and how often/for how long.
    My diet/nutrition is also something I should consider so if anyone has advice on that too please. I'm a female, pretty small in frame but I get stuck in all the same so need to be up to scratch for matches.

    Thanking you :D


Comments

  • #2
    Mandous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Mandous


    soccer is good for the fitness and play important role in body fitness.
    because in soccer the whole body have to do tough workout.


  • #3
    McCruiskeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭McCruiskeen


    For football training, I find that the sprints and hills improves my performance better than any other excercise.

    Football requires short and intensive bursts of energy, so I would pick a steep hill about 200 meters long and sprint up it about 5 times a few days a week.

    A mixture of slow jogging and sprinting is also helpful switching about every 100 meters.

    Good luck with the footy


  • #4
    deadlybuzzman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭deadlybuzzman


    Id agree to an extent with the previous post. Im a big fan of sprint drills, cant see much point in jogging though, if your sprints are hard enough without overly long gaps throwing jogging into the mix will only impede your ability to focus on increasing your speed, which would be vital in football as would long hill sprints although shorter ones would be great for explosive strength.
    If you are seriously some stamina maybe jog towards the end of a session-start with a shorter distance and work up from there.
    Id be inclined to make the training specific to what you do in your position, eg. fullback-sprints up the line and jog/run back-striker/winger shorter faster bursts to try and get away from your marker etc..
    Whatever your own game is try and exploit and maximise what youre good at and after that if possible also work on what you would like to improve


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