Playing soccer

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          cobras100mgld on May 15, 2005 at 10:14 pm #10877

          yea i know ive made a topic like this already but now ive learned that my schools football team will once again not lift weights during the football season, only for two weeks during the summer. our practices consisted of 20+ sprints and a bunch of other dumb stuff, nothing strength related. right now football seems like a waste of time and training on my own isnt really an option as im not knowledgeable yet to do this and if i dont train correctly it can ruin my indoor season. soccer seems like a great option to build my base for the indoor season, they do plenty of endurance work but also they have speed work and i can talk the coach into putting weights and other sprint realted things into the practice program. my passion for football has been gone for a while and even though im not serious about soccer it seems like the best option to build my base so i can run the 300m dash indoors. what do you guys think i should do, all opinions are greatly appreciated

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          CoachKW on May 15, 2005 at 10:26 pm #45678

          I would highly recommend soccer and the accompanying lifting. You could probably manage to work form drills in as well. It would be easy to do hurdle specific work on your own around that schedule. Plus, while soccer is a physical contact sport, you won’t have to worry so much about the trauma to the body.

          Go for it and good luck.

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          fraek on May 15, 2005 at 11:27 pm #45679

          yea, i wish i had stuck with soccer instead of switching over to xc my senior year. I put in too many miles.

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          cobras100mgld on May 15, 2005 at 11:32 pm #45680

          so soccer is a good option for me because i run the 100-200 and i do both long and triple jump

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          Daniel Andrews on May 16, 2005 at 4:43 am #45681

          Soccer is a great sport, you will develop sport specific endurance in it. Meaning the crossover qualities will be short speed endurance, a good trait for a sprinter or distance runner. Also, your general overall fitness level will be better than say playing football.

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          flash on May 18, 2005 at 5:28 am #45682

          soccer not only will give you good speed endurance as daminal9 said but it will also improve your hand eye coordination. just one thing i have learned in my soccer years. playing aggressively will actually resort in less injuries.

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          CoachKW on May 18, 2005 at 7:27 pm #45683

          Don’t you mean foot/eye coordination?

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          fraek on May 18, 2005 at 10:22 pm #45684

          [i]Originally posted by KW[/i]
          Don’t you mean foot/eye coordination?

          hahaha

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          CoachKW on May 19, 2005 at 3:21 am #45685

          Dude, it wasn’t a joke :spin:

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          cobras100mgld on May 19, 2005 at 3:34 am #45686

          thanks for all of the replies. do you think ill be as succesful as someone who plays football and runs track?

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          Daniel Andrews on May 19, 2005 at 5:25 am #45687

          More successful most likely. Most football programs know how to ruin good sprinters.

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          fraek on May 19, 2005 at 6:47 am #45688

          [i]Originally posted by KW[/i]
          Dude, it wasn’t a joke :spin:

          yea, it was just funny cause i was thinking the same thing

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          CoachKW on May 19, 2005 at 7:58 am #45689

          great minds think alike fraekster

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          cobras100mgld on June 5, 2005 at 10:23 pm #45690

          danimal9 how does football ruin a good sprinter??? just wondering

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          CoachKW on June 5, 2005 at 10:56 pm #45691

          By one of two or three ways.

          (1) By injury due to trauma
          (2) By putting on too much non useable weight
          (3) Breaking them down with “wind” sprints till you puke thus reinforcing bad biomechanical habits

          and the list could go on and on

          Note: not all football coaches do this, but they would be the exception

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          Mike Young on June 8, 2005 at 12:24 pm #45692

          I agree with most of the above comments, soccer and weight training seems to be your best bet.

          ELITETRACK Founder

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