{"id":14538,"date":"2024-01-03T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerstrengthbayside.com.au\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2024-01-03T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:25:17","slug":"what-to-know-about-soccer-pre-season-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerstrengthbayside.com.au\/what-to-know-about-soccer-pre-season-training\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About Soccer Pre-Season Training"},"content":{"rendered":"
The three main phases of training for athletes in their chosen sport are pre-season, in-season, and off-season.<\/p>\n
Pre-season training is a phase of training that athletes complete before the commencement of their season for their chosen sport, mainly focusing on preparing for the competition by developing the fundamentals required for their sport. Professional soccer athletes commencing their pre-season training, use this time to:<\/p>\n
These key aspects make up the framework for a successful athlete to reach their full potential throughout the season, supporting the importance of pre-season training.<\/p>\n
A key aspect that pre-season training targets for professional soccer athletes is their overall fitness. In the recent FIFA 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup, typically, athletes covered distances<\/a> around 10-12km per game, with the position on the field and the intensity of the game being key factors as to which individuals run more. In order to run 10-12km in a minimum of 90 minutes largely at different intensities (excluding if players are substituted), your overall cardiovascular fitness is required to be extremely high, along with your overall aerobic capacity. For short sprints and explosive instances which is no doubt required during a soccer match, agility, strength, and muscular power to name a few important fitness components are required.<\/p>\n This is why pre-season training is crucial, as it allows you to build up these fitness components and play your best soccer throughout the season. This is through training programs and specifically designed workout plans to target different fitness components. For example, plyometric training, such as jumping or sprinting, is used to train muscular power, and explosiveness, and continuous training, such as long distance running, can be used to train aerobic capacity.<\/p>\n Alongside the many benefits that pre-season training has, is injury prevention<\/strong>. Common causes of injury throughout a soccer season include:<\/p>\n Pre-season training can prevent injury, as it aims to build muscle around the body, giving it more support and structure, preventing injury, and decreasing the chances of injuries from collisions, and improving muscle imbalances. Techniques are also continuously worked on during pre-season, to prevent injury and to improve the ability of the individual. During pre-season, training load is monitored by coaches and professionals, as well as training being planned out during the season as to not overtrain to avoid injury.<\/p>\n Physiotherapists are highly trained to assist athletes throughout their pre-season training, in order to achieve the best possible results of the individual throughout the in-season phase.<\/p>\n\n