In order to prepare yourself to play soccer you are going to have to build a fitness regime based upon ten key elements:
1) You are going to need to build up the strength and endurance of your leg and arm muscles in order to ensure that they will not falter halfway through a game and send you sprawling on your face on the field with exhaustion.
2) You are going to need to improve your cardiovascular conditioning, making it easier for your body to get the oxygen it needs to keep going and preventing you from becoming tired too quickly.
3) You are going to need to learn what foods to eat and which foods should be avoided in the interest of helping you to bulk up your muscles and decrease the fat content of your body, making it easier for you to increase your metabolism and get in shape.
4) You will need to eliminate all habits which are negatively affecting your health from your lifestyle.
5) You will have to establish a firm work-out routine that works all of your body’s systems
to their maximum capabilities.
6) You will need to stop eating certain foods that are touted as being healthy for you but are actually only serving to exert a negative effect on your body’s well being.
7) Throughout the course of your fitness training you will discover that all of your body’s systems are interrelated, and why it is therefore essential that you discover how to achieve the best results from each one to help you to perform at your best when you get out on the soccer field.
8) Of course, there’s more to getting fit to play soccer than simply getting fit. You need to know how to play as well! We’ll give you a list of easy soccer related drills that will help you to become comfortable with the ball and your role on the playing field so that you will be prepared when you walk in on that first day.
9) As sports related injuries are incredibly common, particularly when you are playing a contact sport like soccer which focuses primarily on a single location on your body, we will briefly touch on the subject of injuries, playing while injured and how to rehabilitate an injury to help you get out on the field as quickly as possible, and finally
10) The single most important part of playing any sport is to make it fun, and that includes your workouts as well! We’ll show you a couple of zany activities which will help you to get in shape while enjoying yourself at the same time.
