Speed for Soccer
By Markus Kislich,
VVV Athletic Performance Center
How do you improve your speed for football?
This question has been asked a million times, by a million players, teams, AND coaches. When you visit another team, one of the big questions is:“How do YOU train?“
What do you do?
Sprint-Training?
Plyometrics?
Just play the game of football?
To improve speed for sports, one has to understand the physiological basis for speed and power.
That basis is strength.
It‘s simple:
To get faster you must first get stronger.
That doesn‘t mean to say that you shouldn‘t do Speed-(read: Sprinting)and Power-Work; you should.
Power/Explosiveness for example, is basically a function of Strength x Speed.
If you sprint you get faster. If you do explosive work you get faster..... up to a certain point, and then things plateau out, progress stalls.
To further improve, strength needs to be increased. Then one can get back to speed and power-work.
Another important tip:
Emphasise that which gives the most return for time and effort invested, ie.: focus on that which is most improvable.
Strength is many many times more improvable than pure speed.
What that means in real world terms is: mainly work on strength, with the right kind of speed and power-work injected at the right time and place, and in the right amounts.
That way your power, speed and quickness will continue to improve, and so will your game.
Success in football is determined by many things, one of them is to be there first!
Quote Al Vermeil of the Chicago Bulls:
„It‘s basically all about who gets there the fastest, and under controll.“
Markus Kislich
Athletic Performance Coach
Contact:
http://vici.is/
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