8 DRILLS EVERY TRAINING SESSION NEEDS PDF

8 DRILLS EVERY TRAINING SESSION NEEDS PDF

Fitness training for football used to involve gruelling cross-country runs, but if you just do that you’ll find yourself struggling on the football pitch.

You need to build a base of fitness around endurance, and there’s a time and a place for aerobic training – but you also need to focus on your ability to perform repeated sprints. Remember that game when Gareth Bale – then playing for Tottenham – destroyed Inter Milan’s Maicon in the Champions League? How many metres do you think he covered sprinting? An astonishing 719.

So what exactly do you define as a sprint?

It’s a run that’s faster than seven metres per second – that works out at running the 100m in 14 seconds.

If you’re able to perform at a fraction of this level in the amateur game you’ll have a huge advantage.

Plus, football isn’t played in straight lines; it involves stop-start direction changes.

To help you build anaerobic fitness and agility here’s a drill that challenges you to develop both...