Football
Football specific training
The following Sports Coach pages provide information specific to the sport of Football:
- Acceleration techniques and speed development
- Agility Training to meet the demands of field games
- Energy demands of football
- Fluid Replacement
- Football Practice - how to get football fit
- Hip flexors - the most underdeveloped muscle group in strength training
- How to prepare a football training program
- How to win the penalty mind game
- How to improve the function of the hamstring muscle group for speed
- Interval training for the games player
- Interval Training for football players
- Kicking Accuracy
- Nutritional advice for football players
- Medicine ball workouts that can do wonders for your running velocity and power
- Strength training can improve kicking power, sprint speed and jumping ability
- Training Program - 40 yard Dash
- Find a Coach
Training Equipment
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Speed Training ParachuteSpeed training resistance parachute provides additional resistance for sprint training. |
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Speed Agility LadderExcellent for improving speed and agility. Forces the feet to adapt to extremely fast patterns of footwork. |
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Power Speed ResistorProvides resistance from partner for sprint training drills. |
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Step Training HurdlesExcellent for agility, plyometric and sprint drill training. Available in 6 inch, 9 inch and 12 inch heights. |
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Medicine BallsMedicine balls are a great multi-purpose training tool that can be used alone or with a partner to improve core strength, functional movements, reaction time, and coordination. |
Developing a training programme
You will find the following pages useful in developing your Football fitness training program.
Planning the training
- How to prepare your training program
- Example training program
- Performance Profiling - how to identify weaknesses in your skills
General strength development
- Circuit Training - develops strength and endurance
- Weight Training program using dumbbells
- Weight Training program using free weights and machines
- Weight Training program for sprinters - uses Olympic lifts
Developing elastic strength
- Plyometrics
- Plyometric Exercises - Arms
- Plyometric Exercises - Legs
- Plyometrics High Intensity Exercises - Legs
- Complex Training - using weights and plyometrics exercises
General conditioning
- Developing your Core Stability - Abdominals and lower back
- Conditioning exercises for the legs
- Conditioning exercises for the lower legs
- Conditioning exercises for the upper body
Agility training
Some of these pages contain performance evaluation tests but they also make good training sessions.
Speed development
Endurance training - cardiovascular development
- Developing your VO2max
- Interval and continuous training
- Hill training
- Training with a heart rate monitor - Training Zones
Nutrition
- Nutrition - determining your daily requirements
- What to eat when training and competing
- Nutritional tips
- Sports Drinks
Psychology
- Sports psychology
- Relaxation techniques
- Overview of mental imagery
- Mental imagery - developing the skill
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Football PerformanceFootball Performance: how to raise your game brings together under one cover the findings of recent sports science research into footballers and their performance. Over eighty pages of hard data and analysis on nutrition, preconditioning, injury prevention and treatment, and other aspects of fitness that you can use to raise your game or that of your team. Select this link to order your copy of Football Performance. |
Associated Pages
The following Sports Coach pages should be read in conjunction with this page:
- Energy demands of football
- Fluid Replacement
- How to prepare a football training program
- How to win the penalty mind game
- Interval Training for football players
- Kicking Accuracy
- Nutritional advice for football players
- Strength training can improve kicking power, sprint speed and jumping ability
- Speed Training Program
- Planning the Training - 6 stages of development
- Find a Coach
- Sport/Event specific articles
Associated Books
The following books provide more information related to this topic:
- Strength and Conditioning for Games Players, C. Brewer, ISBN 1 902523 85 7
- Advanced Studies in Physical Education and Sport, P Beashel et al., ISBN 0 17 4482345
- Physical Education and the Study of Sport, B. Davis et al., ISBN 0 7234 31752
- Essentials of Exercise Physiology, W.D. McArdle et al., ISBN 0 683 30507 7
- Physical Education and Sport Studies, D. Roscoe et al., ISBN 1 901424 20 0
- The World of Sport Examined, P. Beashel et al., ISBN 0 17 438719 9
- Advanced PE for Edexcel, F. Galligan et al., ISBN 0 435 50643 9
- Examining Physical Education, K. Bizley, ISBN 0 435 50660 9
- Sport and PE, K Wesson et al., ISBN 0 340 683821
- PE for you, J. Honeybourne, ISBN 0 7487 3277 2