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.
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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.
What Are Biomotor Abilities?
Do you know what are biomotor abilities? How did they ‘emerge’? The purpose of this video is to explain to you the ontology of biomotor abilities, the certain flaws of their use (The Root problem, buckets, periodizat…
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…
Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes
Regardless of your training objectives (increasing strength in specific lifts, increasing strength overall, bulking up, leaning out, rehabilitation, maintenance, etc), key training parameters (intensity, volume, frequenc…
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 3: Mick McDermott Case-Study
It is great that coaches started sharing their own case studies and I urge others to share their own experiences and solutions. I am more than glad to share Mick McDermott's solution to in-season microcycle organizationa…
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer (Part 2) – Mark Williams Case Study
A friend of mine from the UK, Mark Williams was more than kind to share some of his thoughts and practical solutions with me and the readers. I want to thank Mark for taking his time to write it down and share.
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 1: Complexity
One step toward that direction is solving the planning complexities of in-season microcycle in soccer (might be some other team sport as well, such as basketball, rugby, handball, hockey, football, etc). I have presented…
