Hi Everyone, In this edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog, we discuss CrossFit, a training program that has become popular amongst adolescents and young adults in the past 10 years, and whether or not soccer players should consider incorporating it into their training routines. I hope you like it and as always, please [...]
In the past few weeks we have had some bad weather in Toronto, including freezing rain and dozens of centimetres of snow. A consequence of this weather for soccer teams and other training programs like ours was that many people decided not to show up to their regularly scheduled training sessions. In this week's Video [...]
Soccer is a sport which requires a unique combination of anaerobic and aerobic fitness. That is, elite level soccer players must possess speed and jumping power, as well as aerobic endurance and recovery, similar to elite track and field athletes. The sport also requires a significant amount of very specific movements, including accelerating/decelerating, cutting and [...]
It's that time of year again! December that is - when almost all youth soccer clubs and academies give their players "time off" from their regularly scheduled training and games. But what exactly should soccer players be doing during this time off? Is it meant to be a break from all forms of exercise, or [...]
I have been obsessed with trying to find the perfect way to train for soccer since I was in high school, and I haven’t been in high school since 1999. Over the almost 20 years which have passed since then, my obsession has provided me with the opportunity to start my own business; to work [...]
In our latest Gols Video Blog, learn how to properly stretch the often tight and sometimes injured muscles of the lower leg, the gastrocnemeus and soleus. Hope you like it and as always, please feel free to share your thoughts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMdlcDZgUo
Olympic lifting – specifically, the power clean exercise – is widely becoming a very popular method of training for both individual and team sport athletes. The power clean exercise is an exercise which increases power and strength and works the legs (glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, calf) as well as the lower back (erector spinae) and shoulder [...]
I enjoyed my first opportunity to work in professional soccer this year, when I was hired as Fitness Coach for Canadian SC Uruguay, a professional soccer club in the Uruguayan Segunda (2nd Division). I was fortunate to have been given this opportunity by Canadians SC's head coach, Rafael Carbajal, an Uruguayan Canadian who had previously been working [...]
Build and Maintain Your Fitness this Winter Season With Our Winter Strength and Conditioning Training We are offering flexible packages of 10 training sessions plus 2 fitness assessments, running for 10 weeks, with flexible start dates that allow you to train and schedule your own training sessions whenever you want! Our training is periodised to ensure [...]