“The foundation for success in the second half is laid in winter” — what seems like a worn-out coaching slogan to increase motivation during the winter break is 100 percent correct from a sports science perspective.
Training over the cold winter months is so important that people are now also talking about the “golden phase of the season.” Because the foundations for the entire next soccer year 2022 are being laid right here and now.
In this blog post, we'll show you why, when and how you should train so that your soccer year 2022 can also be the most successful year in the club's history.
The year 2022 was exhausting — physically, but above all psychologically. A number of English weeks, pandemic-related game cancellations and minor to major ailments. We recommend that you enjoy the winter break first — without motivation to perform. To get fit and ready to perform again, both physically and mentally.
After that, however, you should start to work on your best form for the next year.
Because only in this season phase can we work 100% with you on your ambitions. Whether keeping the class, winning the championship or winning the derby against local rivals — during the winter break, there is no need to consider game postponements or players who are behind in training. The focus is on you, your athletics and their continuous improvement.
Your game. It's your choice.
With our B42 trainer and training solution, we want to ensure that you are not one of those teams that at some point have to realize that they did not do everything they could to achieve their individual goals in winter.
For a timely Training comeback During the winter break, there are therefore also good reasons for sports science — the so-called residual effects.
These say that after just a short period of inactivity, a complete break has a negative effect on your metabolism and on your physical resilience in the long term.
After a break of about 10 days, you lose around 5 to 10 percent of your endurance capacity.
As a rough guideline for this loss, it can also be extrapolated that the result is a rough guideline of 15-30 percent for a 30-day break.
As soon as you completely refrain from sporting activity — i.e. muscular stress stimuli — your body is signaled that the existing muscles are “no longer needed.”
After another ten days, you have not only lost 10 to 20 percent of your endurance capacity, but your strength levels are also gradually declining.
These are indeed from athlete to athlete*In different ways, but on average only at around 70 percent of the initial level after one month.
In addition to the listed disorders, there are other measurable decreases in performance and changes in your hormone balance.
So don't belong to those teams that realize after Christmas that preparation is about to begin.
By then, you have firstly reduced your fitness level and secondly too little time during the preparation period to get back to your previous performance level.
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strength, endurance, mobility and rapidity are the ultimate premises for sustainable success in today's soccer. From amateur to professional — without those conditional skills, not much is possible in a progressive implementation of soccer with high pressing, quick switching or overlapping of sides of the playing field.
The perfect soccer player therefore doesn't just have to be able to “punch” for 90 minutes. He must also be bursting with strength and dynamism in duels, tearing down series sprints like a Duracell bunny and sneaking across the court with the elegance of a big cat.
Football is a complex sport — and training is therefore just as tricky.
But what exactly are your personal strengths and weaknesses? Where are you better or worse than other soccer players or teams? What should you specifically train on? With our wide range of training options, we offer one or more training options for every physical performance segment — and with our Performance tests You immediately know what you have to work on.
What has been the absolute standard in professional soccer for some time now, to check your fitness using performance diagnostics and also to create training plans and individual units based on these values, is also possible with our app. For the areas of speed, endurance, strength and mobility, we have collected and adapted the know-how from the professional sector and now also made it available to you.
After completing the tests, b42 athletes receive their own PlayerCard with a personal B42 score, which is also calculated for the individual sub-areas. You can also see at a glance how you performed compared to your age group, club or position.
One thing is just as certain in this country as the coaching saying “Referee, my players must work again tomorrow”: Whenever winter in this country takes us particularly firmly into its white-cold stranglehold, many teams start their preparation period with long endurance runs.
Is it a mistake to jog across the asphalt roads of your home town with squeaky yellow neon vests and flickering headlamps? Yes, but let's start with a structured approach...
To make this clear: Basic endurance is important — in principle, it is an important basis for all sports. Even weightlifters need them.
Because 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 with good basic endurance also tire more slowly, which can help to avoid technical and tactical errors.
This should make it clear that every athlete — including soccer players — should have significant basic endurance.
If you take a closer look at the requirement profile — whether district or Bundesliga — of soccer players, one thing stands out quite clearly:
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.
And that is exactly what training should be done for. In winter training, you have to do justice to the complexity of the sport soccer.
For the soccer player, this means:
Speed and direction changes must be included. Movements that are probably rather rare during a typical jogging session in winter.
A few weeks ago, we were able to set another milestone in B42 history, because with GPS tracking Running units come full circle in the running sector. You now have the choice of free runs for regeneration, soccer-specific interval units or tempo runs to monitor performance.
This now gives your trainer the opportunity to equip you with perfectly adjusted running plans and then check your performance in the app's team feed.
Especially in combination with our performance tests, which were also recently integrated into the app and test performance-limiting factors such as speed, endurance, strength and mobility, these running sessions are doubly important.
In addition to Endurance programs Our strength, mobility and stability units were also designed from our experience in training with Bundesliga professionals and are therefore tailor-made for the needs of soccer players.
One way to prepare soccer players in particular for the game that has become “faster” is the HIIT (High Intensity Interval 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.
It is therefore not surprising that the feedback from previous users of the app who accessed the training is consistently positive.
“Since the GAMECHANGER, I've been able to breathe a lot more and have thus been able to improve my running time by 30 seconds per km! It certainly also lies in the combination of training and breathing exercises, but my biggest problem before was actually oxygen uptake. Really a brutal contribution, thanks for that!” ~ Florian Rädler, Kirchheimer SC (Southeast Landesliga)
For years, we have been transporting the know-how of professionals to the amateur sector so that you can train like the top teams in the Bundesliga in the future.
We have therefore properly upgraded for this winter and are delivering to you:
In addition, with our player profile, it is now possible to track the progress of each individual player and compare them with each other.
More than 200,000+ soccer players and over 2,000 teams are already training with B42.
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