Today I want to share with you some ideas of how you can
incorporate fitness training in your practice sessions, but without
losing valuable touches on the ball. These sneaky little tweaks will
help trick your players into shape.
At the professional and
college levels, players have off-season conditioning program to keep
them at a baseline of fitness between seasons.
Every soccer players very helpful this fitness tips.
Every soccer players very helpful this fitness tips.
Tip #1 – Touch Limitations
If
players work harder and with more intensity in practice, their fitness
levels are going to increase. The trick is getting them to run more and
put in the extra effort.
Reducing the number of
touches allowed in an activity will require better off the ball
movement. This equates to more running, more energy expended, and more
conditioning developed. For less advanced players, two touch possession
can often take care of this.
Set up an activity
with a 2-1 ratio of attackers to defenders (8v4). I like to set up three
teams of even numbers. Two of the teams (total of 8 players) will be
attackers, and 1 team (4 players) will defend.
Have
the attackers on two touches with the defenders on unlimited touches.
Have the defenders defend for a set amount of time (2 minutes for
example). The attackers count the total number of passes that they
complete. The defenders can keep the ball if they intercept until the
attackers win it back.
The defenders will have to
put in a great deal of work to get and keep the ball. Rotate the teams
until everybody has had a turn defending. The team that gave up the
least number of total passes by the attackers wins.
Try
this game with one touch if you want to make the attackers really work
hard as well. You can also play 5v5 with a neutral on one touch. The
players will be breathing heavy for sure!
Tip #2 – Increased Distance
I
use this method when we on working on skills like receiving and passing
with different surfaces of the body. Typically I will set up a grid
that is 5 yards wide and 15-20 yards long. I put one player on each end
of the grid with a single player in the middle who is “doing the work.”
The
outside players will each have a ball. The “working” player will check
to one of the ends, receive a ball, play it back and then check to the
other side of the grid to receive from the other server.
You
can work on 1 touch passes with the inside/outside of the foot. The
servers can toss the ball for 1 time volley or half volley. The ball can
be tossed for a chest trap and pass. You can do one touch headers with
this activity. Be creative.
If you want to work
more fitness into the activity, simply increase the distance between the
servers. Maybe to 30 yards. You can also put two players in the middle
and have them go in opposite directions.
Once they
receive the first ball, they will have to sprint past each other to the
opposite side of the grid to receive the next ball. You can move the
servers up to 40 yards apart if you really want to stress fitness.
Tip #3 – Skill Relay Races
By
nature soccer players are competitive. Introducing elements of
competition in your practices will raise the intensity level and work
rates.
Skill based relay races are one way to accomplish this. Players can dribble to the cone, turn and pass back to the next player.
Have
them accomplish different types of turns. They can turn inside of the
left foot, inside of the right foot, outside of the left foot, outside
of the right foot, etc. You can have them execute a pull back move with
the sole of the foot, make a Cruyff turn, or a step over turn when they
get to the target cone.
Again, use your imagination.
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