[CC05]

Some people may have seen these, some not. I suscribe to the free email journals sent out and decided to check the site if they had anything new and came across these articles. I've seen a couple posts recently about increasing speed so I felt I should share both of these.

This is an article about "Soccer Speed Training" http://www.sportspecific.com/public/308.cfm?sd=51. It's a 3 week pre-season training program to increase your speed (but i'm sure you could extend the program longer if needed).

And this article is about "Speed and Power Tests" http://www.sportspecific.com/public/334.cfm?sd=51. It's not necessarily soccer specific as this site isn't SOCCER specific, but it would probably work for any sport.

There's also an "exclusive 25 page speed training case study which includes weight training and plyometrics" that you can download here, http://www.sportspecific.com/public/321.cfm?sd=51.

They're many more articles on the site that are pretty useful (ie: improving kicking power) and if I wasn't such a cheap skate i'd probably have subscribed to the site long ago , but I find the free articles sufficient .

[Caesar]

Good job. Solid work there, some interesting stuff. Best thread in this forum for a long time.

[johnpaul7fc]

Great stuff. could u also get the two articles related to the soccer speed training??




cheers

[CC05]

Originally Posted by johnpaul7fc

Great stuff. could u also get the two articles related to the soccer speed training??




cheers

I think you're referring to the 2 articles at the bottom of the first link? And i'd like to get a hold of those too and would gladly share them with ya if I was a member .

[fookstick]

dont know if this has been posted or anything but i really like this website. explains feints and moves then gives small mpegs of them being done by the pros.

J.A King's Strong Soccer

[GreenDay]

I started doing the speed-training program in the first article. I've done two session and oh my god the speed endurance part is horrible. It was probably the hardest training session in my whole life, the scorching sun didn't help either. I really thought I was in better shape, guess not. My aerobic base that I did in the winter seems to have disappeared.

[CC05]

Originally Posted by GreenDay

I started doing the speed-training program in the first article. I've done two session and oh my god the speed endurance part is horrible. It was probably the hardest training session in my whole life, the scorching sun didn't help either. I really thought I was in better shape, guess not. My aerobic base that I did in the winter seems to have disappeared.

So have you done 2 weeks or... better yet, have you noticed a difference in your fitness yet? I haven't tried these sessions specifically but i've done some similar sessions like the speed endurance one a while back and it did seem to help me.

[GreenDay]

Originally Posted by CC05

So have you done 2 weeks or... better yet, have you noticed a difference in your fitness yet? I haven't tried these sessions specifically but i've done some similar sessions like the speed endurance one a while back and it did seem to help me.

No I've just done two sessions of the first week, again tomorrow...

Today I was practicing with the ball on my own and some little kids asked me if I was the fastest guy on my team whereas actually I'm one of the slowest. So maybe it's working already