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BASIC CONDITIONING Coach Gary Collier has a few tips for general conditioning.
Look at the Handout which sets forth the basic approach to current and off-season conditioning for serious soccer players.
If a player is engaged in a extra-curricula camps or conditioning clinics then the overall conditioning regimen should be a logical combination of the two or more regimens.
HELP WITH INJURIES
Here are some suggestions that might help understand some injuries suffered by soccer players. It is not intended as a substitute for proper medical attention and no claims are made for its reliability. It portrays opinions held by a runner Claudia Piepenburg and may be instructive to soccer players and their parents.
SPORTS NUTRITION
We are not going to try to be experts in sports nutrition here. We may however offer some common sense tips for keeping our young sporting champions as healthy as we can.
We have developed a Nutrition Primer that offers some valuable tips in this vital area.
REDUCING ACL INJURIES
Boys and especially girls can be at risk of tearing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) a ligament that holds our knees together. (just ask Shannon MacMillan or Ally Sullivan of the San Diego Spirit team in 1993).
Read the handout for some valuable tips to avoid this debilitating injury.
