Interesting Books on Soccer Training
I wanted to give you a quick heads up on a couple of interesting books on soccer training. I’ve got most of them and will read them all .
Tag: Team Sports
New Way to Calculate Wellness From Questionnaires
In this video, I go over the usual problems of calculating total Wellness from different categories and I present a new way to calculate total wellness score that is more sensitive.
Atlético Madrid Circuit Training
But being big, successful, rich (and beautiful) by no means is a proof that someone knows what the hell are they doing (or as Nassim Taleb book would say don’t be “Fooled by Randomness”).
Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 7: Paraskevas Polychronopoulos Case Study
Paraskevas Polychronopoulos is strength and conditioning coach from Greece where he works for an amateur team. He was kind enough to share his template.
Individualization of training – are you doing it right?
You are probably familiar with ‘individualization principle’ in training theory that says that training should be individualized? The only problem is that most books/sources don’t necessarily goes into how to do it…
The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution
First off let me be clear – I have never been involved in national team preparation. Nevertheless, I would like to pinpoint to some issues that I believe are troublesome.
Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6
I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It i…
Planning the In-Season Microcycle In Soccer Part 5: Planning the Competition Period in Soccer
In this article I have presented something that’s called “summated microcycle”, the solution I first read about in Total Soccer Fitness by Ian Jeffreys.
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”
I will use this installment to share some thought on “Recovery mini-block”, which is one of four parts of microcycle: recovery, load, taper and game. I will focus on starters (see concept of functional groups in prev…
Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey
Approximately a month ago I have emailed a lot of prominent coaches and sport scientists a survey form to rate their experience with AMS products and also rate/describe their needs. The goal of the survey was to improve…