Below is a link to a very interesting article written by Tryggvi Kristjansson, that was posted last week on www.thesefootballtimes.co, an international soccer specific website/blog. The article describes the ascension of Iceland - a country which, with a population of just over 300,000 is one of the smallest European member nations in UEFA - as a [...]
Hi everyone, I'm excited to welcome you to the next edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog. In this Blog, I will be providing weekly video content relating to all things soccer and fitness. In this edition, I discuss the importance of strengthening of the glute medius, which is a hip external rotator, and [...]
It's September, and I am now 1 full year into "back-to-school" mode. The class I am presently enrolled in is Advanced Sport Psychology. I first studied this subject during my undergraduate degree in Kinesiology over 10 years ago. I was fascinated by the topic then, and I continue to be fascinated by it today. As [...]
Hi Everyone, I'm excited to welcome you to the very first edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog. In this Blog, we will be providing weekly video content relating to all things soccer and fitness. In this first edition, I am discussing the importance of single leg strength exercises for soccer players, and providing [...]
Below is a link to a very interesting article written by Bill Haisley and posted on www.screamer.deadspin.com last week. The article immediately caught my eye, not just because of its seemingly contradictory title, but also because I have always been a big fan of U.S. Soccer and of the work they have done growing and [...]
Last weekend I ran an on-field training session with a club team at Bill Crother's Secondary School in Unionville, a relatively nee high school with very impressive facilities, including 3 full size soccer pitches (2 turf, 1 natural grass) plus a full 400-metre track and stadium-style bleachers. For me this was a regular day at [...]
‘10-Weeks Out’ Fall Post-Season Maintenance Training Running for 10 weeks, from mid-October until mid-December, our Fall Maintenance program is the perfect way to ensure you don’t lose your fitness levels once the outdoor season is over. Our training is periodized to ensure optimal development of aerobic endurance and strength, and through assessments, we [...]
It's the middle of August, and for university soccer teams across the country - and also across the continent - that means the start of pre-season training. Typically, pre-season schedules involve two, and sometimes even 3 training sessions per day, for 2-3 weeks, with other inter-squad and exhibition games mixed in, and very few if [...]
As part of my Nutrition for Sports Performance course, I was recently assigned to create a project (anything other than a written report) about a topic of my choice related to nutrition for a sport of my choice. Of course, there was no choice of a sport other than soccer, and the topic I decided [...]
Yesterday afternoon I worked as a Guest Coach at the 2nd 2015 TFC II Soccer Camp, run by International FC Academy (IFC) in Vaughan. Each 1-day edition of the Camps feature a guest player either from TFC's senior team, or the TFC II USL-Pro team. Yesterday the guest player was 20 year old attacking midfielder [...]