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SOCCER SCIENCE
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The British Columbia Soccer has teamed up with Soccer Science International to ensure the good health of players and maximize their fitness. Soccer Science International provides soccer specific education, instruction, and training that promotes injury prevention and maximizes players’ physical potential in the sport of soccer.
All articles written by Rick Celebrini and printed in the Province are now available on line. Click on the links below.
Rick Celebrini is a former Vancouver 86er captain, one of the founding physiotherapists of Soccer Science International, and is the sport science consultant of the British Columbia Soccer Association's technical committee.
The focus of Soccer Science is in the formation of a training program that addresses the prevention of soccer related injuries while enhancing player performance. BC Soccer's Soccer Science program is based on an extensive literature review on the incidences, mechanisms, contributing factors, and present/previous prevention strategies of soccer related injuries, augmented with its own research and its members' clinical and playing experience. This exercise program will be implemented across a broad demographic including players of different ages, sexes and skill levels to determine long-term outcomes and the effectiveness of the program in both the prevention of injuries and the enhancement of performance.
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There are benefits of a soccer player having a high level of aerobic fitness. These benefits include an improvement in performance and potential avoidance of some injuries. The keys to training this system are following some basic principles common to all aerobic training and ensuring it is tailored to the soccer players demands. In other words, while running for long distances in a straight line at a constant pace may be adequate aerobic training for certain purposes, such as in building an aerobic base in preseason, it does not reflect the aerobic demands of a soccer player. |
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A soccer player will move in multiple directions with constant changes in pace. They will change their activity every 5-6 seconds. The aerobic system will provide 80% of the energy required to sustain and recover from soccer’s demands. Conveniently, the most specific way to train this is to play games or high intensity scrimmages. Some of our 86er scrimmages were far more “taxing “ than some of our games! However, there are certain injury risks in the above technique of “playing oneself into shape”, especially in early or preseason. Thus the need for well structured and soccer specific aerobic training drills.
The following principles should be kept in mind for safe and effective aerobic training:
- Should be done 3-5 times / week, for 20 – 60 minutes, at 60- 85% intensity.
- Allow 1-2 unloading days where you train the aerobic system with non-impact activities such as water running or cycling. Although not as effective it will give the body an active break.
- Incorporate the movements of the game – multidirectional, soccer specific movements and changes of pace that are similar to a game. For example, go from a walk to a sprint to a jog with changes of direction and hops, jumps, or getting down and up from the ground interspersed at different intervals or cones. Don’t be afraid to include the ball!
As long as you stick to the principles, you are limited only by your own creativeness… and endurance! |
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