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| | Achieve optimal stamina for your best performance on the pitch
From the National Strength and Conditioning Association comes the definitive resource for developing the endurance training programs that maximize performance and minimize injuries. Developing Endurance provides both the background information and the exercises, drills, workouts, and programs for ultimate results. Athletes and coaches will appreciate the assessment tools, analyses, and instruction to define specific needs and establish effective training goals. Armed with these tools and information, you can create the ideal personalized training program for your soccer team and avoid lengthy plateaus while taking performance to the highest level. Read more. 
|  | | LIVE Facebook chat on March 23rd
 | | | |  | Join us for a LIVE chat on Facebook with the author of A Woman’s Guide to Muscle and Strength. Log on to our Facebook page on March 23rd at 9 a.m. CDT and ask Irene Lewis-McCormick your fitness and/or soccer conditioning questions. She is a personal trainer, international presenter, author and 25-year fitness veteran. Like us on Facebook to be part of the conversation. | | | | | View our latest webinar
| | | |  | Dan Benardot, author of the recently released Advanced Sports Nutrition, Second Edition, presented "Energy Thermodynamics Revisited: The importance of within-day energy balance for optimal weight, body composition, and sense of well-being" on February 22nd. There is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that wide deviations in real-time energy balance cause difficulties in sustaining a desirable weight and/or body composition. Join this free, hour-long webinar, to better understand within-day energy balance and see how that can be applied to your athletes’ nutrition program so they can practice harder and perform better on the field. Listen now to this free webinar. | | | | | Breakaway Game Drill
| | | |  | View a drill from Soccer Skills & Drills Procedure: A line is made across the field 25 yards (22.8 m) from goal. Another is made 45 yards (41.1 m) from the goal to create a horizontal corridor. Inside the corridor, four attackers play versus four defenders. Between the line marking 45 yards (41.1 m) and the halfway line is a second corridor. Two attackers play versus one defender in this corridor. The ball starts with attacker 5 or 6, who plays to one of the four attackers in the corridor. When one of those attackers can sprint behind the defense to receive a through pass, that attacker continues on the break to try to beat the goalkeeper, as illustrated by attacker 2 in the figure. The closest defender must chase the attacker who has broken through. All others remain in the corridor (figure 8.18). Continue excerpt. | | | | | Get fired up for soccer practices
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| | | | Top soccer coach teaches agility essentials
| | | |  | Read an excerpt from Complete Conditioning for Soccer. Along with accelerating, agility involves reaction time, balance, coordination, stopping, and starting. Agility drills can be either reactive or nonreactive. Nonreactive drills are those in which the athlete can anticipate what is going to happen, whereas reactive drills require the athlete to react to a stimulus and make a split-second decision. Both reactive and nonreactive drills will improve your agility, but as a soccer player you should focus on reactive drills. These are most likely to transfer to the game. Continue excerpt. | | | | | The quick and easy way to manage practices and games
| | | |  | Get your players from the sidelines into practice activities and game situations quickly with Go Coach Soccer. From your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, Go Coach Soccer offers 19 video clips and 33 animations demonstrating 24 skills and 40 activities to organize your practice. Supplemental coaching tips and advice, safety guidelines and checklists, and guidance on season and practice plans will help you manage team activities beyond the Xs and Os. Developed by leading coaching education provider American Sport Education Program and drawing content from Coaching Youth Soccer, Go Coach Soccer is the authoritative app for any on-the-go coach. Read more. | | | | | HK Author elected to Hall of Fame
| | | |  | Congratulations to former US national team captain Claudio Reyna and goalkeeper Tony Meola on their recent election to the US National Soccer Hall of Fame. Reyna, the US captain at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, is the author of More than Goals, a book that takes you inside each level of competition and development of one of the most successful U.S. men’s soccer players ever. | | | | Subscribe, unsubscribe, or customize your email preferences, here.
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