At Home Training
We are dedicated to developing soccer players who are committed to improving on their own in addition to participating in our training programs. To support this, we have collected resources for you to use to improve your at home training time.
The resources below offer different options to help you train effectively on your own. We encourage you to select the areas and exercises that you find valuable and incorporate them into your weekly routine. There is no 'perfect training routine' to follow strictly. The most effective training sessions combine skill-building with activities that spark your interest, focusing on proper body movements and exploring new ways to manipulate the ball or space on the field. Feel free to adjust and combine exercises to meet your goals.
Additionally, we encourage you to focus on injury prevention, mobility, flexibility, and strength, which are not included in the sections below.
Training at home is about conditioning your body to learn new skills and improve your ability to manipulate the ball at speeds that will help you perform in games. Memorizing cone drills or trying to build skill routines to perform in an exact order will rarely be applicable in most game situations. Instead, focus on mastering individual skills that you can then instinctively combine to react to the situation at hand.
Give yourself options to complete objectives in a game, whether that's controlling the ball with your first touch, manipulating the ball on the field individually, or striking the ball to pass or shoot. All of these require the right tool for the job, at the appropriate moment.
We want to see you exploring new areas of your game and will help you find the right time to use the skills you are developing on your own in our in-person training programs.
Applying your at home training to our shock in person sessions:
Experience Gameplay Training
This program allows athletes the freedom to make their own decisions and try to implement the skills they are learning into their style of play during a live-speed match with specific objectives to complete. These objectives force athletes to use different styles of play to execute effectively. This is the perfect time to try new things and discover how your skills will work in a real game, without the pressure of an in-season game or tournament where you are expected to play simple and take fewer risks. We want to see what you’re working on and how it shows in your training sessions.
Technical Skill Development
1v1 and 2v2 training sessions are the perfect opportunity to experiment with a combination of new skills against defenders. Becoming unpredictable gives you an edge over any defender and allows you to create more space and time on the ball, as the defenders cannot easily guess your next move. The more skills you can utilize in 1v1 and 2v2 training sessions, the better.
Advanced Skill Development
We provide the situation and some of the options that can be used to execute successfully. The skills we teach are combinations of the fundamentals needed to move the ball and find space in various areas of the field and different situations. These required skills are simple on their own, but we aim for them to be performed at game speed. Becoming more comfortable with the ball on your own will allow you to focus on pushing yourself to perform actions at game speed and challenging yourself to increase your speed of play during our sessions.
If there are techniques introduced in sessions that are difficult or new, spending additional time focusing on them will benefit you in the future. Mastery takes time, and it can only be achieved through consistent practice with the ball.
