Last weekend, January 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2016, I hosted the inaugural Soccer Fitness Trainer’s Course, the first-ever coach education course in Canada focusing on soccer-specific fitness training for individuals and teams. For me, the best part of the course was not the lectures or on-field presentations themselves, but rather the group discussions that occurred [...]
Happy New Year Everyone! For the first edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Blog in 2016, I have taken a look at the Canadian Academy of Futbol (CAF), a unique player development program with a very unique model for developing and maximizing the potential of aspiring young soccer players in Canada. I hope you enjoy [...]
Below is a link to an excellent article written by Sean Ingle, and posted to www.theguardian.com back in October of 2014. The article discusses Billy Beane, the revolutionary baseball coach and manager, famous for his role in transforming the Oakland Athletics baseball club into perennial contenders in Major League Baseball, despite having the league's 3rd [...]
Hi everyone, Welcome to the next edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog (and the final edition for the 2015)! In this Blog, I will be providing weekly video content relating to all things soccer and fitness. In this edition, I discuss the use of home training programs including the Soccer Fitness Gols mobile [...]
10-Weeks Out Winter Indoor-Season Maintenance Training After the great success we had with our ’10-Weeks Out’ Fall Post-Season Maintenance training programs, we have now developed our ’10-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 you don’t lose [...]
Below is a link to an excellent article written by Jason De Vos, and posted on www.tsn.ca on December 1st, 2015. As the title suggests, this article discusses some of De Vos' opinions about why we have not been able to develop "talented" soccer players in Canada over the past several decades. Among the reasons [...]
Hi everyone, Welcome 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 upcoming December / Holiday break, how it should be treated as a break from soccer but not a break [...]
The United States Women’s National Soccer Team decided to withdraw today from their scheduled friendly match versus Trinidad and Tobago in Aloha, Hawaii. The official reason cited for the cancellation was “dangerous field conditions” and. after seeing the picture above (originally posted by ESPN reporter and former US Women’s National Team star and World Cup winner [...]
Hi everyone, Welcome 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 how, at the Soccer Fitness Training Centre, we use our high speed running treadmills in combination with Dartfish camera-based software [...]
Coach education has always been a passion of mine. Throughout my career, I have continually pushed and challenged myself in all areas of my education, both in fitness/sports science, as well as in soccer coaching. In recent years, I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to become an educator, lecturing at universities/colleges, national/international [...]