Archive for “Soccer Players” Tag

Getting Your High School Athletes Faster

Posted on: October 4th, 2011 by IYCA 4 Comments

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by Wil Fleming

The biggest mistake in training athletes to get faster.

Both speed and agility are critically important for athletes to be successful on the field. Unfortunately I see plenty of programs or services offered by coaches that are skewed in the wrong direction, they promise to "decrease your 40 time" or "drop your home to first time". While both of these things are important in the recruitment of athletes, they are not critically important to the performance of athletes. Training speed and agility in some cases, verges on running some sprints and breaking out the agility ladder.

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Youth Soccer Training: Part 2

Posted on: March 28th, 2011 by IYCA 1 Comment

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Youth Soccer Training For ‘elite’ players.

Does the methodology change?

If so, how?

Watch and find out:

Is “Linear Speed Training” A Mistake?

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The State of Youth Sports

Posted on: June 3rd, 2010 by IYCA 20 Comments

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Youth Sports

For years, I have had to put up with youth sport coaches and parents echoing the words and mimicking the behaviors of successful coaches such as Vince Lombardi and Mike Ditka.

True.

You can’t argue with the success those guys had.

But do you really think that yelling at 10-year old football players for making a ‘bad play’ or chastising 12-year old soccer players for ‘missing a shot’ is the best and most sane way to coach kids?

Unfortunately, my arguments have fallen on deaf ears more than once over the past decade.

I just couldn’t make youth sport coaches realize that aggressive and negative behavior can be damaging to young athletes, and that a primary reason why so many kids drop out of sports at an early age is because of the often abusive treatments they get from their coaches.

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