One young, budding soccer player asked an expert how far a player could run in a single game. It was about ten miles, the expert said. Divide ten miles by 90 minutes. It is approximately seven miles an hour. It is impossible to be true if you look at it from a practical perspective. People tend to base their assumptions and how they feel about things more than what they actually see. To train young talent effectively, coaches must have more than assumptions. The discussion can be expanded upon by using soccer as an example and running as a variable.
Videotaping of the games
Tape is one of the best methods to analyze and study a game. You have the advantage of being able to watch the game as many times as you want and be able to study the movements of the players. You can pause, fast-forward the game to the most interesting part and rewind the video to continue a section. These facilities allow you to see the game plan and how the players use it. An analysis of the Everton FC soccer team in England revealed many details that were not known to the public. One example is that a player was selected and every move of the player was studied. According to the results, the average game ran 8,800m. Running also included walking, jogging and sprinting. It was more than just running, as originally thought. About two-thirds of the distance was covered running slow, or casually jogging on the field. The actual sprinting took place for approximately eight hundred meters.
Conditioning exercises
To be a great player, it is essential to be physically fit. Trainers may have different ideas about what “being fit” means. According to a physician, being fit is how quickly you can recover from a physical stress condition. The metabolism changes dramatically during workouts. Blood flows faster, heart pumping more quickly, lungs expand and collapse to take in more oxygen and energy, and body generates extra energy to counter the physical stress. The “recovery” stage is when metabolism returns to normal, the heart rate remains within acceptable limits and the lungs work normally.