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Help with workouts for soccer / pre season
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Alright..... I have 2 weeks when I get home from NY to get in serious shape for soccer season..... I start school in september (the 8th) and I need to be ready for soccer. Im in moderate shape since I have been working out at ski camp and such. Anyway, I need some kind of work out to be doing every day. I could get to a gym if need be, but it would be better if i didnt need to. And im a keeper if that helps.
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Long Bike Rides/ Mountain Bike Rides. Running. Full Ab Routines. Lifting Weights at the Gym- Legs-Squats/Leg Press Arms- Bench press/Dead Lifts Abs- Situps/Crunches/Ab Machiene. Agility Drills: Sucides.
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meh, just be active, but im just lazy and go and play and skip practice.
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ahah same and that is why I choose to play bronze or silver.
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hiking....best cross training/balance/cardio workout possible in my book
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hold heavy shit and do squats, and go running
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buy the book: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Soccer. you really don't have a lot of time for pre season weight training, but it also gives good workouts for during the season and the off season. for now i would just say like run. but idk anything about soccer
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Bike and run lots and lift weights and sit ups and push ups... sounds great to me
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plyometrics (plyos!!) works like a charm.
also, endurance runs. helps alot too.
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yeah any type of activity that will increase your stamina and endurance such as biking, running, and hiking are all good. Do a lot of ab/core body strength development. Also develope your upper body strength.
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sorry for posting again, but biking UPHILL is killer awesome for your leg muscles
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go to the soccer field, do last line touched a few times down the field. that outta do it. its just where you start at the endline then sprint to the goal line, then turn around and go back to the end line then sprint to the 18 then back to the goal line then sprint to midfield, then back to the 18 and so on. good workout
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run, pushups, crunches, leg lifts, jump rope, lift weights, and play soccer as often as u can if ur alone then just practice juggling
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they dont have early season training?? runn at least two 600's each day and just get the feeling for the ball again i guess thats pretty much what we do for early season training, cept wit more running and like drills and stuff
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thats usually what we do in practices anyway so definitely good training. theyre deadly when the coaches are making you do them though haha
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throw balls against the wall a ton, work on distance and accuracy of your kicks, have someone shoot on you whenever possible, practice diving... i know it's vague, but basically just work on your goalie skills and hand-eye coordination... get a friend to shoot on you a ton.
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sprints untill u drop. take it from experience this will whip you into shape
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complete waste of his time if he's a goalie.... hence my suggestions to work on everything a goalie does. From years playing and having some pretty ridiculous goalies on my team I can say what's made them good is constantly working on different aspects for long periods of time. We had an awesome goalie coach in HS who would just sit and shoot on them anytime we weren't.
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yeah, those are really good
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as a keeper the workouts you should be doing should be to work on your fast twitch muscles or whatever its called. it wont help much by working on your slow twitch muscles because the workout you do as a keeper is not much but you have to be quick and agile at any given moment. so get some quick very short sprints in, like nothing more than 15 meters at a time. when you lift weights lift weights do them quickly, slowly wont work the muscles the right way that you need them to be for your quick sprints, scrambles, dives and whatnot. do lots of burpies, lunges, and stuff and maybe combine them with sprints, but most importantly get someone to take lots of shots on you and get comfortable with the ball again.
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run in sand, run barefoot.
it tunes muscles in your feet/ankles that you normally wouldn't make bigger, and it'll help you with your speed and agility
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2 weeks? You're fucked dude.
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its gonna be tough to get in shape in 2 weeks but since you have been working out just run alot, do pushups, crunches and other excercises on your lower body and your core muscles
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my soccer practices started monday and i hadnt done anything since the end of last season and i got absolutly worked, iv been so sore every day so far, only 2 more till i get the weekend off
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SWIMMING! and just do some qucik agility drills since ur a keeper like suicides and just like 50-100 yard sprints
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for a good goaly work out, sprinting back and forth from endline to 6 yard and 18 and back and stuff is good, changing momentum and sprinting will allow you to explode for balls when you need to in the goal
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run, do drills with a ball, hit the weights. 2 weeks really isnt that much time though
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yea just run and work core muscles, have someone shot on you, and just go practicce getting touches on theball
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exactly what i was thinking
but if you wanna try to get into any decent shape, run and do plyos. youre gonna need to run like 5 miles a day but it can be done. you just gotta push yourself.
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just run around a track at like 1:45 a quarter mile till you drop, then sprints
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run long distances a lot
do those things where you sprint 100 yards and take a little rest and then do that over and over, and just juggle a lot
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yep run alot, long distance and sprinting both. juggle and dribble around to keep good touch. DO NOT LIFT WEIGHTS WITH LEGS HEAVILY. it will make you lose your touch on the ball.
i did none of these before our soccer started though because im too fucking lazy
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honestly just play AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, better skills comes with more experience and practice. when i went 2 this ajax camp they didn't have the keepers doing weights and all that, cuz really u don't need it that much unless ur a freak and are 6'2 and weigh 130. just play all the time and get the ppl ur with 2 do different kinds of shots so u can perfect and get used 2 diving for those types. good luck
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In two weeks you will be able to get into ok shape doing this:
HIIT sessions (High Intensity Inverval Training). This is how it works. The first day, you only have to run for 4:30 seconds. You sprint as hard as you can, full speed, for 30 seconds. Then, you jog for 30 seconds. You do this until you are done with the 4:30 seconds. Do it every day. After the 2nd or 3rd time bump it up a minute. Keep doing it until you reach 10 min. Then you will be a beast.
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It's impossible to "get in shape" in two weeks. You need at least 4-6 weeks to "get into shape".
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^I'm not saying he is going to make the National team after training for two weeks. But he will be damned close to getting there
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