Football Coaching Sessions: Fitness - Ball Orientated
Fitness based football coaching sessions that include a ball
| 25 and 6 Second Intervals: Quite an intensive football coaching session based on the ratio of sprinting to jogging in a match situation. | View Session |
| Every Line on Pitch with a Ball: Exercise that involves longer sprints, therefore greatly increasing endurance levels. | View Session |
| Fitness Course with Footballs: Fitness course that incorporates footballs to increase motivation. | View Session |
| Lay Off Strike Long: A football coaching session that can be adapted to intensively work the active player, also involves longer distance passing. | View Session |
| Game of Man to Man Marking: This football coaching session can be used to ensure no players relax or switch off, if they do it becomes clearly evident. | View Session |
| Move to Empty Cone: Exercise that incorporates short passing and awareness with acceleration and sprint work. | View Session |
| 1-2 Spin: A short 1-2 is played between each sprint. The intensity of this coaching session can be easily and quickly adapted. | View Session |
| 1-2 Spin to Next Group: A progression of 1-2 spin to involve more ball contact. | View Session |
| Move to Last Cone: Exercise that focuses on short passing and short distance sprinting. | View Session |
| Pass and Collect Centre Circle: Exercise looks to improve a players sharpness, reactions and movement over short distances. | View Session |
| 1-2 with Outside then Spin: An intense exercise that also focuses on the players first touch and first time passing. | View Session |
| Sequence Passing with Sprints: Exercise to improve a players speed into and out of a turn. | View Session |
| Strike and Collect: The active player must recover possession and return it to the server. This all occurs over a large distance. | View Session |
| Angled Sprints and Stations: A multi-stationed course that mixes different techniques with sprint work. | View Session |
| Head from Floor: Exercise that places active player on the floor before they are expected to head a ball. Constantly regaining an upright position can make this exercise very intense. | View Session |
| Head from Floor in 3's: Similar to Head from Floor, but more servers so the active player works twice as hard. | View Session |
| Head Turn Sprint: A header is performed in between each sprint. The jumping, turning and accelerating involved within this football coaching session makes it a very intense workout. | View Session |
| Pass Shuttle Pass: A short shuttle is completed in between each pass. The intensity of this exercise is easily adaptable. | View Session |
| 1-2 Turn Sprint: Repetitive shuttles that occur between passes. The involvement of the balls means players are unaware how hard they are working. | View Session |
| Run with the Ball in the Middle: Fitness based coaching session to improve the players ability to move at speed with the ball at their feet. | View Session |
| Shutting Down: Good exercise for sprinting over should distances and a way of incorporating defensive work into the fitness programme. | View Session |
| Half world away: Exercise to improve a player’s ability to observe and react to the movements of another player while in possession of a ball. | View Session |
N.B: The areas within these football coaching sessions can be adapted to suit the players age, ability and experience, and to determine the intensity.