SOCCER COACHING: Coaching Soccer Speed

Описание: This hugely insightful video on improving all aspects of players football speed is presented by Mike Antonides.

Mike is the Performance and Rehabilitation Director of Sport Dimensions, a company he set-up, specialising in Speed, Power and Rehabilitation techniques and training.

He is a qualified UEFA Coach, Strength & Conditioning Coach, Speed Coach and Rehabilitation Specialist. Mike works with a number professional football clubs in the UK, Europe and the USA, developing Speed and Conditioning programmes –

Clients include among others, athletes from, Chelsea FC, Chelsea Academy, Bolton Wanderers Stoke City, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town, Saracens, Bath, Harlequins, Celtic, Blackburn, QPR, Italian Football Federation, GB Athletics, GB Bobsleigh, as well as Winter and Summer Olympians.

Mike runs coaching workshops and seminars on Soccer Speed and The Long Term Development of Young Footballers, in the UK, Europe and the USA and he also lectures at various universities on Biomechanics and injury prevention. He has developed a number of protocols for Performance and Rehabilitation which are being used successfully in professional teams and private practices.


THIS VIDEO TEACHES YOU HOW TO DEVELOP FOOTBALL SPEED
How do you develop this speed?

In most football clubs whether at youth, amateur or professional level, there is no effective teaching of speed. There are many different ways of approaching the structure of speed training, but even today with all the modern coaching methodologies and available knowledge and research, speed training is coached as part of fitness and in many cases it is counterproductive to the development of football speed.

No consideration is given to the relationship between functional movement, the neuromuscular system, the energy systems, the type of speed required for the sport, the effect of the training on young athletes, recovery periods and other influencing factors.

Age is one of the most important factors. Coaches must remember that children are not mini adults and cannot train in the same way.

Scientifically it has been proven that strength is determined by developing the muscular system. Endurance is deterrnined by the carcliovascular system.

Speed, meanwhile, is determined by the nervous system and coordination.




According to Mike Antonides, there are THREE KEY POINTS to remember when developing football speed:

The optimal training period for developing speed
Training the neuromuseular system, when and how can this be done?
Training football-specific speed
RUNNING FASTER
So how can you run faster, more efficiently and avoid injury?

The nervous, muscular, skeletal and cardiovascular systems of our body are all involved when we run. They all combine to create the neuromuscular and neuromechanical systems. We can improve the biomechanical movements for runners by teaching the body and the mind the correct motor patterns.

When you want to change a movement in your body it needs to be stored in your muscle memory so you can repeat without thinking, particularly when you are tired. When you perform a motion the body sends messages to the brain in a certain sequence.

To create a permanent map in your brain and nervous system you need to repeat this motion many times until it is ingrained in your muscles and your brain.

The primary objective of motor learning is to train the Movement rather than the Muscle.
Once we have taught the movement then improving the athletic performance of a runner is imperative in the pursuit of excellence and in injury prevention.
The neuromuscular system then has to be stimulated to recruit and contract motor units simultaneously and to increase the strength of the contraction.
Did you know?

65% of footballers over the age of 12 are slower turning on one side than the on the other, by up to o,85 of a second.
Many young footballers can improve their speed and quickness just by correcting their running biomechanics.
Reactive speed can be improved by up to 3o% with the correct training in just four weeks.
If youngsters acquire the basic movement skills by the age of 13 then they will very rarely make professional footballers.