Thu
19
Oct
2017
The Small-sided training part on the website was updated with some research.
Sun
19
Jul
2015
If you want to utilize SSG as a conditioning tool, the following might help you to ensure progression and consistency in your approach.
First of all if you have not read my separate section on “ALL about SSG” it would be recommended to do so CLICK HERE to get to the page.
If you have done it, you will recognize some of the rules and restriction that can be applied to alter the physical/physiological demands of the game.
Mon
29
Sep
2014
From a scientific point of view, Small-Sided-Games (SSG) provide reliable internal- (such as HR, RPE, and blood lactate concentration) and external responses (such as total distance covered) and therefore can be used as a conditioning format (39).
As mentioned on previous sites, SSG seem to have many advantages (such as football specific movement, technical training, possible tactical improvements and inherent high motivational factors for
training) over other conditioning formats (13, 16, 20, 25, 35). It seems that coaches, who in particular have only limited amount of time with the players, might benefit from SSG as they might
increase the efficacy of training (39) and even reduce the total training time because of the multi-functionality of SSGs (13, 38), especially in youth players (40).
Besides improvements in the aerobic endurance (9, 25, 28, 29, 36), and anaerobic endurance (29).....
Mon
01
Jul
2013
Hello everyone,
here is the next update of our homepage.
We have written a text about training aerobic endurance in football players using a football circuits.
Please click HERE or just follow the navigation Training - Aerobic endurance - Football circuits.
Fri
31
May
2013
Fri
08
Mar
2013
We have visited (unfortunately only a) part of a speed session from FC Bayern Munich during their training camp at Doha/Qatar 2013.
The set up can be seen in the figure below, however we are only partly able to give a detailed report about the session.
Thu
24
Jan
2013
We have visited the mid-season training camp of Manchester United at Doha/Qatar and want to present an insight into that specific session.
Unfortunately we were not able to attend the entire session, however we have observed ~20 minutes warm-up and ~20 minutes of different games.
The video below shows the warm-up drills, the stretching and another (more intense) warm-up part.
Tue
22
Jan
2013
Manchester United has been holding its mid-season training camp at Doha/Qatar 2013 since last Sunday. We have visited a training session and want to give an insight into the warm-up/training session of their goalkeepers.
The total length of their first part was ~45 minutes.
Besides a more general and individually performed initial 5-8 minute beginning, consisting of jogging and other running forms, the video below shows the rest and more goalkeeping specific part of
the session.
After the initial ~45 minutes the goalkeepers joined in the small-sided games of the team.
Fri
18
Jan
2013
We watched a strength-training session of FC Bayern Munich during their training camp at Doha/Qatar two weeks ago.
This session followed the previous released warm-up session as the main part of the training session.
The setup consisted of 6 stations. Each station was performed ~1 minute in length followed by a 1 minute recovery period. All players went through the entire strength-training circle 3 times. The 27 players were “equally” divided in groups of 4-5 and the set-up of the circle was an area on the football pitch of ~35 x 15 meters.