Whenever winter in this country takes us particularly firmly into its white-cold stranglehold, many soccer players start working on top personal form.
They often resort exclusively to endurance runs - a mistake?!
In this blog post, we'll show you how you can specifically train your endurance in soccer
To make this clear: Basic endurance is important — in principle, it is an important basis for all sports.
If it is well trained, it primarily increases physical performance and thus also optimizes the ability to recover.
This can also result in improved injury prevention.
Players also tire more slowly, which can help prevent technical and tactical errors.
This should make it clear that every athlete — including soccer players — should have significant basic endurance.
Nevertheless, pure continuous running in winter is now “yesterday's news.”
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The statement that soccer has become ever faster in recent decades is probably no longer news to anyone. While ball contact times are now shrinking to areas of less than one second, mileage and, in particular, so-called “hard runs” (i.e. maximum sprints) are exploding from game to game.
Means that the requirement profile of a soccer player — whether district or Bundesliga — has changed: From a trotting strategist to a series sprinter. It is therefore only logical to train endurance with a sport-specific movement pattern.
For the soccer player, this means:
It must include starts, stops, and changes of direction. Movements that are probably rather rare during a typical endurance run in winter.
Another way to effectively prepare soccer players in particular for the “faster” and game is HIIT (High Intensity Intervall Training) — approach.
HIIT alternates intensive work with active breaks. This means, for example: sprints or jumps as an intensive load and then an active break.
There are no fixed rules as to how long the intervals must be.
The exercises push the body to its limits so that it needs an above-average amount of oxygen and thus stimulates metabolism, which therefore significantly improves endurance. During a high-intensity interval session, the body also burns more body fat than as a result of a “normal” running session through the semi-dark alleys of the hometown.
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