Training

The Small-sided training part on the website was updated with some research.

I have updated the "Strength training in football" section with recent studies.

There is also a specific section added about strength and power development (and training) in youth players.

If you want to utilize SSG as a conditioning tool, the following might help you to ensure progression and consistency in your approach.

First of all if you have not read my separate section on “ALL about SSG” it would be recommended to do so CLICK HERE to get to the page.

If you have done it, you will recognize some of the rules and restriction that can be applied to alter the physical/physiological demands of the game.

Over the last week I was able to update my section on small-sided games (SSG).

From a scientific point of view, Small-Sided-Games (SSG) provide reliable internal- (such as HR, RPE, and blood lactate concentration) and external responses (such as total distance covered) and therefore can be used as a conditioning format (39).

As mentioned on previous sites, SSG seem to have many advantages (such as football specific movement, technical training, possible tactical improvements and inherent high motivational factors for training) over other conditioning formats (13, 16, 20, 25, 35). It seems that coaches, who in particular have only limited amount of time with the players, might benefit from SSG as they might increase the efficacy of training (39) and even reduce the total training time because of the multi-functionality of SSGs (13, 38), especially in youth players (40).

Besides improvements in the aerobic endurance (9, 25, 28, 29, 36), and anaerobic endurance (29).....

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we have written an article about monitoring training load of football players.

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here is the next update of our homepage.

We have written a text about training aerobic endurance in football players using a football circuits.

Please click HERE or just follow the navigation Training - Aerobic endurance - Football circuits.

We have updated the training section on our website.

We have received some footage from the Japanese Football Team warmup prior their international friendly match against Canadat at Doha/Qatar this week.

We have visited (unfortunately only a) part of a speed session from FC Bayern Munich during their training camp at Doha/Qatar 2013.

The set up can be seen in the figure below, however we are only partly able to give a detailed report about the session.

We already presented some pictures from the friendly match Spain vs. Uruguay at Doha/Qatar.

We have also visited the public training session of the Spanish national team the night before the match.

The figure below shows the setup of the training session.

We have presented pictures from the Spain - Uruguay friendly at Doha/Qatar previously.

Prior the game we have also followed the Spanish team in their final preparation and the video below shows the goalkeepers warm-up of the last training session.

We have visited the mid-season training camp of Manchester United at Doha/Qatar and want to present an insight into that specific session.

Unfortunately we were not able to attend the entire session, however we have observed ~20 minutes warm-up and ~20 minutes of different games.

The video below shows the warm-up drills, the stretching and another (more intense) warm-up part.

Manchester United has been holding its mid-season training camp at Doha/Qatar 2013 since last Sunday. We have visited a training session and want to give an insight into the warm-up/training session of their goalkeepers.

The total length of their first part was ~45 minutes.
Besides a more general and individually performed initial 5-8 minute beginning, consisting of jogging and other running forms, the video below shows the rest and more goalkeeping specific part of the session.

After the initial ~45 minutes the goalkeepers joined in the small-sided games of the team.

We watched a strength-training session of FC Bayern Munich during their training camp at Doha/Qatar two weeks ago.

This session followed the previous released warm-up session as the main part of the training session.

The setup consisted of 6 stations. Each station was performed ~1 minute in length followed by a 1 minute recovery period. All players went through the entire strength-training circle 3 times. The 27 players were “equally” divided in groups of 4-5 and the set-up of the circle was an area on the football pitch of ~35 x 15 meters.

The German national and Bayern Munich striker had an individualized high-intensity and speed training session during the training camp of Bayern Munich at Doha/Qatar this week.

We have visisted the warm-up of a strength and conditioning session of FC Bayern Munich during their training camp in the Aspire zone at Doha/Qatar 2013.

The entire length of the warm-up was about 15-18 minutes in length and we have cut down all drills into a video.

We have attended a training session of FC Bayern Munichs preparation phase at the Aspire Zone at Doha/Qatar and the following will present the individual finishing exercise of Arjen Robben (AR) after the official training.

This article reviews a current report from sport1.de website, a sports channel in Germany. On their website they present the latest training equipment from the reigning Bundesliga Champion Borussia Dortmund.