Benefits of upper body strength

What you are going to learn today:

The justification for the need of upper body strength training in soccer:

How that strength can help you with your speed and power, your defensive attribute and your general confidence.

Benefits

• more explosive and faster

Watching Erling Haaland's performance in the UCL, you have to feel inspired as a player. His strength, speed, power and hunger for goal will definitely make an impression on you. You might want to go out and kick a ball after seeing him in action. No you wont be as fast and powerful as Haaland but ask yourself what steps can you take to be Faster, Stronger and a more powerful player.

Listen in as Berg and Andy give you a full breakdown of how to do a full conditioning program while you have a lower leg injury.

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Listen in as Andy and Berg interview Julia Eyre, CSCS on the psychology of penalties. Julia is the owner of White Lion Performance, and can be found on instagram @WhiteLionPerformance.

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Listen in as we interview Tori Corasco as we learn about what key attributes a keeper should have. Tori has experience as a goalkeeper at the collegiate and professional levels. She is currently a GK coach at The Keeper Institute in Southern NJ, and can be found on instagram here.

Key points:

- Coach sets intensity

- Return to play needs to be better

- Tracking your workload is not difficult

- It takes 72-96 hours to recover 100%

- Your warm up needs to be intense

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In today's podcast Andy and Berg discuss how Adama Traoré huge physique could impact his longevity in soccer.

Listen in as Berg and Andy interview Cody Mansfield, DPT. Cody is a physical therapist at The Ohio State University who helps soccer players and active individuals recovery from injury. He can be reached via email at [email protected] or on twitter @mansfieldcody.

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In today's podcast, Andy and Berg discuss how caffeine can positively impact your performance during training or competition. They go over the benefits, as well as dosage recommendation. 

Reference:

Sökmen, B., Armstrong, L., Kraemer, W., Casa, D., Dias, J., Judelson, D. and Maresh, C. (2019). Caffeine Use in Sports: Considerations for the Athlete.

In today's podcast, Andy and Berg go over whether sex before a game has any impact on your perform

affect performance?

References 📚:

Stefani, L., Galanti, G., Padulo, J., Bragazzi, N. and Maffulli, N. (2019). Sexual Activity before Sports Competition: A Systematic Review.

Anshel, M. H. (1981). Effects of Sexual Activity on Athletic Performance. The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 9(8), 64–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.1981.11711137

Zavorsky, G. S., Vouyoukas, E., & Pfaus, J. G. (2019). Sexual Activity the Night Before Exercise Does Not Affect Various Measures of Physical Exercise Performance. Sexual Medicine, 7(2), 235–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2018.12.002

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