Need held help for Soccer Training Rout.

[Elapid]

I've already got a solid foundation of general strenght and conditioning but Id like to be incorporate plyos into my training split without losing intensity in the gym or on the field.

Stats:
5'9" 225lbs 13-14%BF

My current routine is:
Mon: Deads, Hams, Glutes, Lower Back
Tue: Arms, Shoulders. Core Stength
Wed: OFF
Thu: Squats, and Quads, Calves, Core Stength
Fri: Chest, Core Stength, Soccer Practice at Med intensity
Sat: Back, Soccer Practice at Low Intensity
Sun: Match

Since I started spliting Quads and Hams Im seeing fantastic results in leg development and strenth, however, performance increase hasn't much on the feild.

How should add the plyos/sprints without overtraing and seeing better "functional" results on the field? I am currently running Test and Nandolone as well so that should be a consideration as well.

I was thinking adding two days of plyos, combining my quad/ham workouts. I also thought about training twice a day two days a week and using the extra day to recover. Thanks for any advice and sorry for the long winded post.

 

[bm2k]

I can imagine the other players shitting themselves at the sight of you. At 5'9" and 225 you're a big mofo of a soccer player!

I play indoor soccer myself, but I'm currently out injured

You might be best suited to combining your leg workout and adding in a day or two of plyos and speed drills:

Mon: OFF
Tue: Legs
Wed: Plyos, speed work
Thu: Pushing movements, core stability/strength
Fri: Plyos, speed work, soccer practice
Sat: Pulling movements, soccer practice
Sun: Match

It really depends on what your goals are. I think the schedule I listed tends to devote as much emphasis to bodybuilding as it does to soccer...

 

[Elapid]

Thanks bm2k-I am the heaviest guy on the team for sure and it does intimidate the our opponents but I never get calls my way, and if I get fouled in the box I never, I mean never get a call since most the defenders are smaller than me. I think its unfortunate that soccer players don't utilize weight training more, I think in America most of the soccer players are guys that weren't big or strong enough to play other sports so they played soccer-no question the big three sports keep the elite athletes out soccer and thats why it will be a while till we're taken seriously by the rest of the world.

Sorry, I digress, thanks for the advice thats the kind of the training program am going to try.

 

[Vortexx]

Field Benefits

gym training that will pay off at the field, generally dynamic exercises that require a lot of stabillisation/neurological coordination:

a LOT of frequent ABS training (so you can do fast twisting/turning and helps running faster)

for sprinting power:

- CLEAN AND PRESS
- SNATCH
- LUNGES
- JUMP SQUATS

Hi intensity Interval cardio training

Yoo could opt to replace your regular deadlifts with stiff legged deadlift in order to focus/mimic more of a hamstring running action movement

 

[buffal2001]

Hey bro......ive played soccer for the past 9 years with a years break in between.........for the last 2 years ive been doing weights and last year (when i returned to football) i had no idea what to do.....i wanted mass and strength combined with soccer agility, skill and speed.........in the end i just lifted compound movements like cleans bench deads squats and threw in some curls and dumbbell press now and again. Also, during practise i did sprints and cardio aswell as skill work. I ended up doing 5 days on a week.....the result was added speed, skill and strength when i really thought i wasnt gonna get ne where playing soccer aswell as weights. Im not sure what u mean when u say that elite athletes are kept out of soccer and that it isnt taken seriously in the world cause clearly there are alot of elite soccer players all over the world who are undoubtedly great athletes!

 

[bm2k]

Im not sure what u mean when u say that elite athletes are kept out of soccer and that it isnt taken seriously in the world cause clearly there are alot of elite soccer players all over the world who are undoubtedly great athletes!

He didn't necessarily mean elite athletes on a whole, and he was talking about the situation in America where other sports dominate. The bigger, stronger, faster, taller etc. guys get filtered towards football, basketball and the like. He was making a point that in America, soccer players are often the ones who weren't big and strong enough to play football and couldn't jump high enough/weren't tall enough to play basketball. Sure, this doesn't take anything away from the fact that professional soccer players are very agile, often fast, and have amazing aerobic endurance.

 

[Elapid]

bm2k got what I meant. Yes international soccer players are perhaps some of the most well conditioned and skilled athletes in the world, but in America if you display that advanced athletic predispostion at an early age your usually pushed towards more traditional American sports, where as in most other countries its the other way around. Of course socio-economics influences things too. Jeff Bagwell and Hakeem Olajuwon are good examples both were from all reports very skilled soccer players but are now playing baseball and basketball.

But I in no way would take away from the dedication and ability that young American soccer players possess. Just wait about 10 more years and I think we'll see at least a World Cup quater final team-hell the way the US team is playing now it may be these guys (Mathis, Wolff).

Thanks guys for the training help...you guys over here are a little more positive and analytical than over at the Anabolics Forum.