Girard Lady Yellow Jackets: Handouts

Camp checklist

Edinboro Medical Release Form

Microsoft Word file of the practice for December 2, 2004.

Passing and Receiving Practice

Handout for December 2nd practice.

Passing and Receiving webpage

Here is a goalkeeper fitness handout for our goalkeepers.

Goalkeeper Fitness

A cardiovascular conditioning workout.

Cardiovascular Conditioning Workout

Off season conditioning program, part 1.

Off Season Conditioning I

Off season conditioning part 2.

Off Season Conditioning II

Soccer is a sport that requires changes in speed throughout the game. Training and conditioning for soccer should simulate these changes. Here is an exercise that does both and should be included in your offseason conditioning program.

Cardiovascualr Soccer Conditioning

Offseason Conditioning sheet to track your own conditioning. Print the front page on one side of the paper and then print the back page on the back of the same paper. Fill out what you do daily including attending skill sessions and playing games. Sheets will be collected every two weeks.

Offseason workout sheet back

Article written on being a first defender. To be a good defender you shold know these.

First Defender

Defensive commandments you should follow.

Defensive Commandments

It's so important we learn to walk before you can run. As a team we need to pass accurately before we can move on to more difficult tasks as a team. Everything we do is based on passing accuracy. If we can't play an accurate pass, then everything else will fail because of this weakness.

Passing Options And Accuracy

Here is a personal offseason workout that will benefit you and your team if you do it religiously. You could do this on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while getting your distance and speed work in on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Remember, what you put into it is what you get out of it.

Personal Workout

Here's a soccer weightlifting workout workout. It just takes commitment from you as a player. Take the time to try it and you will reap the rewards during the season.

Soccer Workout

Plyometrics is a good way to increase your explosiveness and foot speed.

Plyometrics1

You can increase your speed. By following some of the exercises listed here you should be able to see small increases as you continue to do them.

Speed Training

Creativity on the soccer field can be a number of things. But mostly it is using your head and playing smarter, not harder. Read an find out if you are creative.

Creativity

Improving you flexibility and strength are two ways you can improve your game.

Strength and Flexibility

Improve your skill and your level of conditioning while using a ball.

Skill Conditioning

A offseason shooting and heading workout for improving both these techniques.

Shooting and Heading

A copy of an agility workout that is performed at both the college and high school level. Simple, yet effective.

Agility Workout

Effective defending is an important part of team play. Without effective defending you are often left playing catch up or involved in a high scoring affair with no sure winner. Good defensive play can be the start of an excellent attack.

Effective Defending

"Move your feet". This is a good phrase made by a coach asking his players to be moving, always. Don't be standing still. Move with a purpose and a plan.

Movement

In the United States we take soccer and fitness a bit less serious then in Brazil. But then Brazil is one of the worlds best soccer teams. So which way would we have it? Read what a US coach saw when his club team travelled to Brazil and saw first hand what is expected from one of the best soccer playing nations in the world.

Play like Brazil

Here are some defensive commandments when we lose the ball. They were created by Gary Rue.

Defensive Comandments

Good nutrition habits are important to a soccer player. Your car doesn't run without any fuel, the same goes for your body. Read this article for some tips to good nutrition.

Good Nutrition

Nice article on keeping hydrated (drinking water often) and how it is important to you the player.

Hydration

Do you have what it takes to be a leader? Read and find out.

Leadership

Goal setting is an important part of your soccer training. Without goals, what do you shoot for? Both team and individual goals are important. Set your goals today.

Goalsetting

Touches you can do in a raquetball court. Nice workout.

Raquetball Workout

Trapping seems to be a lost art. One of the most important skills you could use on the field, it is one that is worked on very little. We talk about the "comfort zone", the "magic hop", and other things that will help you improve your trapping skill.

Trapping

Handout listing the 1000 Touches and what they are. Good off-season conditioning.

1000 Touches

Here's a description of the 1000 touches for you to follow.

1000 Touches Description