FITNESS4SOCCER: Training.: Rhythm and Tempo.
RHYTHM and TEMPO.
All great players and teams in whatever sport, have the ability to dictate the rhythm of the game. By controlling the rhythm of first the individual, then the team, you control the flow of the game, imposing your rhythm on the opposition (individually and collectively) is of fundamental importance for success.
If you're training is always of the same rhythm, then each player, and the team becomes very linear and therefore predictable, and this predictability is the "curse" of unsuccessful players and teams.
Introducing in every training session a variety of rhythmic drills, movements, and more importantly adding a varied rhythmic theme to so called everyday, necessary mundane drills, then each player becomes much more difficult to play against, because his opponent (through traditional training forms) will be very uncomfortable working at these "strange, disjointed, non linear" rhythms.
Alongside and not in isolation, the tempo of the individual movement and the training itself should be multi-tempo, and of differing intensities.
The importance and appreciation of these multi-rhythmic, multi-tempo, training tools cannot be emphasised to highly.
Skill in isolation is cold, emotionless and can even become robotic (machinelike) and is very predictable, but allied to rhythmic ebbs and flows, and tempo changes, this same skill becomes emotional, and human, by nature very unpredictable.
Teaching players to work to different B.P.M. (Beats per Minute), 60 BPM. 80 BPM.
100 BPM. 120 BPM. 140 BPM. 160 BPM.etc. Working to different time signatures 4:4,
3:4. 5:4, 7:4, etc.
By adding these variants to your training loads, a genuine flow and grace of movement in time and space is developed, training becomes more productive, more enjoyable and more creative players and teams are produced.
