Below is a link to an excellent article that was posted on the 'Changing the Game Project' website late last year. It is centred around the balance between patience and expectations, both from the perspective of youth athletes, as well as their parents. It is an interesting and very well written article and the points [...]
Happy New Year everyone! For my first post of 2015, I will be discussing an interesting new study that examined the effects of exercise order in resistance training, and how the findings are relevant to soccer players. Resistance training, comprising exercises done with external resistance such as weights, elastic tubing, or an individual's own body [...]
I have a little nephew. He is just over 5 months old. I try to visit and see him as much as I can, but it can be hard to make time during the winter season, which is typically very busy for me. Because of the time off that the Christmas break has afforded me, [...]
The Holiday Season is here, and if you are a youth soccer player, this means a few weeks off school, and probably off of soccer as well. In my previous post, I commented that the winter / Holiday break should be treated only as a break from soccer (and not from all forms of exercise) [...]
At the Soccer Fitness Training Centre, the month of December is typically one of our busiest months of the year. Part of the reason we are so busy this month is that many of the young athletes we work with are part of academies or clubs that schedule a break from training in December, and [...]
The recent issue of the American Council on Exercise (ACE) "Idea" Fitness Journal summarized a very interesting research study, done by a group of researchers at Western State Colorado University earlier this year. The team recruited 20 adult volunteers, who participated in all possible sequences (24 in total) of cardiorespiratory, resistance, flexibility, and neuromotor exercises, [...]
Below is link to a recent interview of Roy Hodgson, England's National Team Manager, from FIFA.com. There is a lot of interesting material to be taken from this interview, but one part specifically stood out to me as a Fitness Coach. When Hodgson was asked directly, "What challenges do England face to reach Germany's level?" [...]
Ten Weeks Out Winter Indoor-Season Maintenance Training After the great success we had with our ’Ten Weeks Out’ Fall Post-Season Maintenance training programs, we have now developed our ’Ten Weeks Out’ Winter Indoor-Season Maintenance program. Running for 10 weeks, from mid-January until mid-March, our Winter Maintenance program is the perfect way to ensure [...]
I came across this article last week, sent to me by a parent of one of the young athletes I work with. I thought it was really interesting and figured it would be good to share it here. It was originally posted on the 'Far Post Footy' blog, which can be viewed here: http://farpostfooty.com/category/game-changers/ Rule [...]
Below is a link to a very interesting article from Australia, describing a study that was done comparing the effects of ice baths versus warm baths on leg strength post-exercise..looks like ice baths may start to loose some of the popularity they never had in the first place! I'd love to hear your thoughts about [...]