Last week we talked about physical preparation in sport focusing on two basic physical qualities: Strength and endurance.
Let's recap:
Basic physical abilities depend fundamentally on energy processes and are the physical abilities necessary to carry out physical activities.
The basic physical qualities are: strength, endurance, speed and flexibility. In this post we will talk to you about the two qualities that we were missing: Speed and flexibility. Let's discover what they are and what they are for...
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Speed
Speed is influenced by biological development and growth, as well as highly influenced by the genetic potential of the player. These are two characteristics of speed that are linked to nothing more and nothing less than the development of the nervous system and not to other functional aspects. Thanks to the great plasticity of the nervous system, speed training will benefit if we start working on it from the first year of children's soccer.
In children's soccer it is important to be able to provide the player with a wide range of exercises in their practice. It is also interesting to work on the different aspects of speed, combining them with specific movements performed by players in competition as well as linking them to technical factors, since their learning is in its sensitive phase. This happens because the player has to constantly respond, optimally, to unexpected game situations. For example, when the player tries to drive the ball while he must avoid rivals at a certain speed imposed by the situation.
For Weineck The objective of this ability in football is the development of a maximum displacement movement speed and its relationship with your gestural speed. We understand that the importance of generating fast movements with or without the ball is essential for the player to be able to execute technical gestures in a real game situation.
Flexibility
The maximum range of movement of our muscles is important, so if the body does not have a good length this will have negative consequences on the performance we want to achieve from our players. In this way, they will be more limited in many plays and a lack of flexibility and mobility can affect them at different times of the season, which are probably key for your team.
In addition, flexibility helps prevent future injuries, which is essential, since if our players are injured, they will not be able to show improvement as soccer players or exhibit all their skills on the field of play. It is important to highlight this point, that if flexibility is worked on to prevent injuries, the effect is minimal, despite what is said colloquially. We also highlight the fact that there are more interesting options to prevent injuries than just stretching and such as stretching statically as well as dynamically.
In conclusion, when planning our team's training and techniques-tactics, it is essential to work on these physical qualities in depth with our players if what we are looking for is for our team to perform as well as possible for the competition.
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