Entries in goalkeeper fitness (5)
How Any Goalkeeper Can Push Their Mental Threshold
Conjuring up the power to stay focused over 90 minutes is an art form, and there are many facets around solidifying mental concentration so that a goalkeeper can stay focused all the way throughout competitive play. Many goalkeepers feel that staying sharp and alert is a progressive thing, it may start slowly throughout the first half and then spring into action in the second half. For others, the mind can drift off when it counts most toward the end of the game.
5 Tips To Help Goalkeepers Get Over The Injury Hurdle.
With news of Dida and Kalac of AC Milan succumbing to injury over the last week or so, it serves as a wake up call for many goalkeepers to not forget that injury can and does happen. Just last night I got hit like a freight train...cold chills, nausea, the whole nine yards. It was my body's way of telling me to take a step back, and help it recover.
Over the last few weeks, I've upped my intensity into overload, to the point that I had tonnes of painful lactic acid floating around my body. Now the lactic acid came from very intense weight training, throw in a few screaming kids and the day job and over a short period of time you can have some serious trouble, and this is without any goalkeeper specific training!
The body has some brilliant feedback mechanisms developed over millions of years of evolution that give you an insight into how your body feels at any point in time. Yank the chain too much and then the pieces begin to fall apart, keep a fine balance in check and you have a strong and healthy body year round. One of the most significant ways to maximize goalkeeping performance is to have a few aces under your sleeve.
Following are 5 surefire ways to keep in super shape all year round and help maximize your performance without succumbing to painful injuries that can wayside your goalkeeping ability:
5 Tips To Fire Up When Playing in Cold Weather
Last weekend, I was in Portland, Oregon playing in the FC Portland Winter Showcase. The Alaskan in me was excited to see the temperatures drop below freezing and even below zero with wind chill on the last day of the showcase. I know I'm probably one of the only players here who is used to and even thrives on temperatures that cold, so here is my method of dealing with the adverse weather.
4 Tips On How To Plan a Successful Soccer Fitness Program
It was Vince Lombardi who said "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will". If it was good for the Packers...it's good enough for me. But, you'd find that each and everyone of us has that "sit on the couch and eat potato chips" bug, and that kind of thinking will hurt you in a big way.
Plyometrics & Depth Jumps: Pure Goalkeeping Power
The other day I was surfing around some of my favorite internet marketing type web sites (yes, I don't just live and breathe soccer you know), and stumbled across an article over at John Chow. Funnily enough I saw a site review (John does tonnes of these) for Speedendurance.com which is run by Jimson Lee whom is a competitive Masters Athlete, coach (mostly track and field) and president for an athletic club in Vancouver, Canada. (UPDATE: Ok, It was not a site review, thanks Jimson!)
John Stevanja
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