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Soccer & Cross Country Runs: Effective Endurance Training Off the Field | planet.training Blog

10/01/2024, 2:11 PM

Discover how cross country runs enhance soccer training with agility, strength, and endurance exercises. Learn why off-field training benefits soccer, volleyball, handball, and field hockey players.

Soccer Season Plan: Basics You Should Consider

BY FABIAN KLINGNER / SPORT SCIENCE

The secret to a good soccer season plan is a well organized training periodization.

How To Use The Winter Break To Your Advantage

BY THOMAS BENTLER / COACHING TIPS

Although the winter break means time off for everyone, coaches should already be thinking about the next step.

The Importance Of Tactics In Soccer - A Comment

BY FABIAN KLINGNER / OPINION

Transferring tactical knowledge to athletes in an understandable way poses a big challenge and can even make a decent coach struggle.

A Guide To Endurance Training in Soccer

BY FABIAN KLINGNER / SPORT SCIENCE

The type of conditioning that is feared by most players, is nothing more than an endurance training.

Master Coaches Emphasize What's Important

BY BRAD NEIN / COACHING TIPS

A good coach is not only defined by his professional knowledge about X’s and O’s, but most of all his emotional and social abilities.

How Coaches Can Become Great Leaders

BY BRAD NEIN / COACHING TIPS

There is hardly a coaching skill that is more important than leadership.

How Your Players Learn The Most

BY SEBASTIAN KNEISSL / COACHING TIPS

How do you manage to allow for a player’s continuous development?

Generating An Improved "Soccer IQ" In Today's Youth Players

BY ELLIS RILEY / COACHING TIPS

While the player’s technique and athletic abilities are mostly mentioned instantly, their “Soccer intelligence” remains widely disregarded.

Season Preparation With The Ball

BY ANTON GRAICHEN / COACHING TIPS

Right after the summer break is the best time to get your team fit and ready for the new season - Most efficiently with the ball.

Artist Over Athletes

BY ELLIS RILEY / COACHING TIPS

Fundamentally developing creative players can harvest a greater individual and team performance on a more consistent basis.

Season Break Fitness Plan

BY PLANET.TRAINING / COACHING TIPS

A fitness plan to prevent you from starting your new season’s training with unfit players.

Your Performance Analysis Center Is Here

BY PLANET.TRAINING / SPORTS TECHNOLOGY

Which player is constantly improving? Who needs more individual training sessions? Our new player score makes it easy for you to keep track of each player’s development.

Soccer Speed Training - When To Focus On Sprint Abilities

BY FABIAN KLINGNER / SPORT SCIENCE

How do you actually work on your player's sprinting ability? Here's an explanation.

Physical Demands Of The Soccer Player

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Your player's load should influence your training sessions as well as your team’s depth charts.

Soccer Training Through The Winter

BY FABIAN KLINGNER / SPORT SCIENCE

How to prep for sessions in winter without risking your players safety and health.

Central Midfielder - The Perfect All-Rounder

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Whether on the #6, #8 or #10 position - Central midfielders have to be versatile.

The Center Back As A Playmaker

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Tall, strong and ball-winning - That's how most coaches would describe an ideal center back.

The Modern-Day Full Back

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

As a Full Back you're involved in almost every action of the game and need a 360-degree view.

Winger – More Than Just Attacking

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Especially when opponents are sitting deep and defending a lead, it is up to the wingers to keep the offensive game alive.

Striker - The Indefinable Genius

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Strikers are special kind of players. Hardly any other position shows such a variety of player types.

Soccer Injuries: The Hamstrings

BY DANIEL NIEDERMAYER / SPORT SCIENCE

The Hamstrings are the most frequently injured muscle group in soccer - in our training blog you will learn why.

Injury Prevention In Soccer: The Hamstrings

BY DANIEL NIEDERMAYER / SPORT SCIENCE

A hamstring injury is not only painful but can also keep players off the field for a long time.

How To Warm-Up For Soccer

BY DANIEL NIEDERMAYER / SPORT SCIENCE

The warm-up is almost a ritual in any training session and gameday in football. Here's how to perfect it.

Regeneration: Ice Bath For Three Days

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Especially at the end of a season, the body of most players are in desperate need of recovery.

Warm-Up Routine Before A Soccer Game

BY DANIEL NIEDERMAYER / SPORT SCIENCE

The right warm-up program is the perfect tool to prepare players mentally and physically for the upcoming game.

Recovery Methods In Soccer

BY BJÖRN VAN STIGT / SPORT SCIENCE

Often too little attention is paid to a sufficient recovery of the players during the course of a season.

IT In Sports - The Digital Coach

BY NIKOLAI HECK / SPORTS TECHNOLOGY

Digitization is in full swing in the world of sports. Many clubs join the 'digital arms race'.

Success Booster After A Game

BY SEBASTIAN KNEISSL / COACHING TIPS

A former FC Chelsea professional explains how to get even more out of your training sessions and game days.

Motivation Instead Of Plain Instruction

BY ERCUMENT SAHIN / COACHING TIPS

If you are only working on soccer exercises, your team’s inprovement will be limited.

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