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| |  | | | | | | The training of pro footballers has made huge advances in recent years, the influx of foreign coaches and the quest for an edge in all areas has led to new regimes and ideas being employed on the training field.
You can now use these new ideas at your own level and pace and enjoy the benefits that the range of diamond equipment can give you. You can find the diamond products on most of the training grounds of the top British clubs! We innovate and develop new products and are probably the countries leading specialists.
The problem most of you will have is that you only have your players for one session a week and this means that the usual fitness exercises such as interval strides repetition sprints etc, can get in the way of the football! You get fitter for football quicker using the Diamond equipment. Conventional fitness running has always been hard for park players to stomach. It is hard on the mind and body and therefore difficult for the coach to motivate enough effort out of the players. Our products help the coach make the fitness work more enjoyable and challenging and therefore more effective.
A Typical session may go like this:
Players must be warmed up but not warn out when fitness training starts.
The best way to warm up any group of players is by playing various games of keep ball .i.e. 5 verses 2 in a confined space. Various types of dribbling through cones or around boundary poles are also good.
Remember to give them a football to run with and they never think they are working hard!
When you think they are fired up and wanting to play football start the fitness session. I get a good response when I use phrases like "let's get the hard work out of the way so we can get back to the footballs". Get them doing some "easy" stretching.
Do not force the players to overstretch as this can do more harm than good. You can force park players with low levels of flexibility to cause themselves injuries or soreness if they overstretch. As for young players they are very flexible and need only to be shown the correct stretching technique. Stretch into position and hold for a few seconds.
The training of pro footballers has made huge advances in recent years, the influx of foreign coaches and the quest for an edge in all areas has led to new regimes and ideas being employed on the training field.
I like to start with the speed/agility ladder and get the players to do various drills such as step through each rung then sideways (laterals) and various sideways in and out runs. Note: When doing laterals be sure to do runs leading with alternate feet. You can then move onto the hurdles and do various forms of exercise - Straight runs or laterals one stride between each hurdle or several. Do not make the players do two footed jumping on hard ground for more than a couple of leaps at a time. The above two exercises can be replaced or substituted with the use of a Diamond Superdome Hurdle set.
It's very useful as the coach can race two players against each other.
The cones can also be used as field markers. Move onto slalom running through boundary poles as this is an excellent and enjoyable exercise. I always finish any speed/agility routine with sprinting on the flat to get the mind/muscle link back into sync.
The training of pro footballers has made huge advances in recent years, the influx of foreign coaches and the quest for an edge in all areas has led to new regimes and ideas being employed on the training field.
As for the intensity of the session the coach must decide this himself. As a rule do not overwork the players - You will find that when the players become mentally or physically tired the hurdles will be knocked over or the ladder moved by clumsy feet. That is the time to change the exercise.
Intensity can be varied in many ways, such as increasing or decreasing lengths of runs, rest between runs, heights of hurdles etc. It is important that the coach varies and changes the routine often. This prevents boredom and gives greater benefits. Many variations can be introduced - you can vary distances between hurdles, shorter or longer runs can be used or try combining pieces of equipment, say a three hurdle run, then slalom through some poles, and finish with a ladder run. About 20 minutes with the equipment and some sprinting over a short distance to finish will improve your player's fitness levels for football in a short space of time.
Finish the fitness session with some gentle stretching.
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