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Maximize Performance and Prevent Soccer Injuries

Every year there are several soccer tournaments held all over the world for youth soccer players. These tournaments last for a day, a weekend or a week depending on where you go.

These soccer tournaments are also a place where several preventable injuries occur. So in order to get the most out of the soccer tournaments you participate in there are some things you can do pre-tournament and during the tournament to maximize your performance.

1) Proper Nutrition: You want to eat as well as you can the week prior to the tournament. Generally speaking most concession stands at tournaments serve hot dogs, burgers and pizza! Unfortunately these foods, a much as they are appealing to you, just sit in your belly, slow you down and give you cramps. If possible mix up a protein shake in between your games.

During your ride to the tournament have small snacks and once you get there at smaller meals through out the day to prevent cramps and nausea.

2) Hydration: Next make sure you drink plenty of fluid before during and after games. You only need to lose two percent of your body weight through perspiration and sweat for your energy and soccer performance to drop. Do the best you can to stay hydrated and the chance of getting injured reduces.

3) Rest and Relax: In between games it is important to get rest before you play your next game. These soccer tournaments take a lot out of you. Travel time can be any time from one hour or more, as well as the mental stress of high expectations. Bring an iPod, iPhone or what ever works for you in your spare time.

If you are flying to your tournament it is vital that you get up and walk the aisles at least 2 or 3 times during your flight. This helps to maintain circulation and avoid “heavy” legs due to poling of blood.

4)Warm Up: Give yourself plenty of time to warm up before the game. If you are short on time, focus on dynamic movements of the muscles that feel the tightest.

5) Check The Field: As part of your warm up walk or jog through the area of the pitch where you will be spending most of your time. It is important to get a feel for the playing surface.

Follow these five tips and you will show well in the soccer tournament. Remember the better prepared you are, the more successful you will be. Have fun!

Author: Mike Grafstein http://www.elitesoccerpower.com

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18

06 2010

New Soccer Practice Planning System

Every coach knows that trying to plan youth soccer practice can be a nightmare, especially if you are short on time or knowledge. Wouldn’t it be great if practice planning could be perfected so that you have complete control of your team, meaning players learn more, work harder and win more games?

Introducing Soccer Season Outsourced, a complete plan for coaching your youth soccer team, ages 11 and up! This tremendous resource can level the playing field by giving the inexperienced coach the quality practice drills they need to train and develop quality youth soccer players.

Best of all, the series can be printed or accessed on any smart phone, including iPhone, BlackBerry, & Droid, which means you will have everything you need to train your team in one, easily accessible location.

The first part of Soccer Season Outsourced contains 20 consecutive practices, which have been carefully crafted to work for any youth team between the ages of 10-17. Just show up, run the drill set directly from your phone (you can also print if you don’t have one!) and go through the coaching points. Your players will learn, have fun and make you, their coach, look like a genius.

Soccer Season Outsourced also comes with a separate drill bible listing out the various drills from the practice plans broken down by focus (i.e. dribbling, passing, shooting, etc.) with plenty of new variations. This part of the packages will provide you the capability to alter and supplement the practice plans as needed, a tremendous value for this season, next season and beyond!

Coaches and youth soccer clubs- Get Access to Soccer Season Outsourced


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15

06 2010

Youth Soccer Coaching Power

We just added a new product to our arsenal of top quality coaching product titled Youth Soccer Power by Mike Grafstein, a Youth Conditioning Specialist and Athletic Therapist. If you would like to protect your child or players from injury, I highly recomend you download the report he is giving away for a few more days Get the Report

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14

10 2009

Free Practice Resources

Many coaches that have coached multiple seasons are comfortable coaching, and this comfort leads many into complacently. Frequently, these coaches employ no strategy for practice, and it too often breaks into a mix of chaos and scrimmaging. If you are one of these coaches, doing some research online and taking advantage of some of the free soccer practices that are out there could make all the difference.

Without working out and sticking to a plan, you are doing your players a great disservice because the simple fact is, your players will not learn as much if you don’t have a structure to your training sessions. Why? Without structure you will have no idea where you have been, and where you are going.

By taking advantage of quality free soccer practices, you can save yourself the time and effort of having to do it on your own. If the practices are good, and they inspire players to love soccer, in addition to learning and improving their game, you will have success as a coach. For these reasons, it all comes back to your practice plans.

Another reason why having a plan going into your season is because your team is made up of kids, who are notorious for having short attention spans. For this reason, a fluid practice where you move seamlessly from drill to drill will decrease the chance your players will get distracted. It will also show them that you “know what you are doing,” making it more likely that they will listen and learn from you.

When you “wing it” at practice, your time will not be maximized to the fullest. Download free soccer practices and do it right!

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06 2009