Every soccer athlete wants to improve their first step acceleration and their change of direction. This section provides you with the speed and agility drills and exercises you need to explode to the ball with more acceleration and to outperform your opponents with more efficiency.
Perform this lift to increase the amount of power you generate on the soccer field.
This series is designed to improve speed, coordination, and agility. By going through these exercises, the amount of time that your foot spends in contact with the ground will decrease and your speed will increase. Besides using this series for performance enhancement, it may also be used for knee and ankle strengthening when coming back from injury.
I believe sled training to be the most important factor in developing speed & acceleration. That is because it is a combination of both running drills and weight room exercises. As I've said in my previous articles during speed month, your ability to generate explosive acceleration in your sprints relies on your ability to generate force from the ground. But what is important is the specific manner in which you do it.
Adding resistance to your sprint work has been shown to increase acceleration. In theory, training the muscles to work at a higher rate will improve speed when the restistance is removed. There are many ways to add resistance to your sprints. The most common resistance devices are the parachute, sled, bungee cord and weight vest. In this article, we have used the parachute to add resistance.