With the World Cup rounding into full swing, we are watching the most
elite soccer athletes playing consecutive matches in the heat of the Brazilian winter.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, too many
elite athletes are choosing to skip high school sports, especially in
soccer, and it's a shame.
The fervor over NFL players» brains and those of other
elite athletes has trickled all the way down to mini-kicker
soccer teams and peewee football leagues.
An example from
elite soccer is prescription of a lengthening training intervention (e.g. Nordic Hamstring Exercise) to an
athlete.
Indeed, even though sprinting ability is notoriously difficult to improve (especially in well - trained
athletes), eccentric leg curls have been shown to increase sprinting ability in
elite soccer players (Askling et al. 2003).
Their mission is to provide
elite level
soccer training, normally reserved only for development academy players to every
soccer athlete who refuses to be average.