Lesson from Strength & Conditioning with Soccer Players

Yesterday morning I had my first strength training sessions with the soccer team I got in charge of for about one week ago.

After the workout I had a chat with one of the players and one of the coaches of the team.
The coach asked the player if there was a lot of new and funny exercises he hadn’t seen before. The player said: “no, not that much, but the warm-up is great, you really feel warm after that”.

So some people may have taken that response as something bad if they were the strength and
conditioning coach, but I didn’t.

Wanna know why?

Because just as the post yesterday with the trainer standing on the stability balls, there’s a reason why I ain’t following that path.

Whether it comes to fat loss or strength and conditioning, there’s always going to be some basic principles to follow:

=> Basic Bodyweight Exercises is always going to be KING <=

When it comes to developing a strong and functional body, you need to get your body to work as a unit, and get your muscles to start working together.

With exercises such as squats, lunges, planks, pushups, pullups, shoulder presses and row exercises, you are making sure that your body is starting to get there – to becoming a unit!

With the soccer players yesterday, I had them performing squats, pushups, pullups, gymnastic ring rows, bridges, hanging leg raises, lunges, medicine ball throws, etc. Nothing fancy, most of them had seen it before, and that’s the way it’s going to stay.

I am going to start working on different speed drills and such to improve their running mechanics, but that is all related to getting the body to function as a unit!

If you can’t get your muscles to work together, you want get the results you want from speed training. I could implement running with parachutes, running with rubber bands, etc, but then again, I would only be doing that for my ego, showing everyone how fancy my equipment is and how broad my knowledge is.

That’s not going to happen.

=> Lesson Learned <=

So the lesson learned from this is that basic bodyweight exercises are THE BEST thing in order
to get a stronger and functional body, a body that burns a lot of fat and gives you that attractive beach body we all want! Stick to the basics and stop believing in all the crap you
see on television.

Home workouts is going to work in the long run, that’s just the way it is, and in order to get it to work, you shouldn’t invest hundreds of dollars in expensive and fancy equipment, there’s simply no need to.

You got your own home gym with you all the time – your own body!

Since the soccer player I told you about liked the dynamic warm-up so much, I wanted to show you this video that I included a few months back into the Burn Fat at Home program!

It can be performed at home before every workout, and it will help you by increasing your core temperature, loosen up your muscles and also improve your flexibility!

For easy and effective training,
Jonas Forsberg

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