Joey Round College Soccer Recruiting Video Class of 2020 Presented by StrengthCoach!

Joey Round plays striker and center midfielder on the U18’s for Cincinnati Elite FC and Division One Milford High School graduating class of 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Strength testing with our USL soccer team- Philadelphia Union

Matt Siniscalchi - Athletic Development and Reconditioning Coach at HPSports

Since the beginning of our season this year we had not done testing, this was our first official testing. 

Here was (is) my first standards for the group (12 players)

Trap Bar Deadlift 1.5xbodyweight x1
-if succesful with that, we did up to technical failure 

100% can do 1.5bw x 1 rep
66% did 10reps or above at 1.5 x bw


Push-Ups +45lbs on back (15reps was limit)
-5lb plate on floor for consistency

only 2 could not do 15 reps (10 @ 12)

Chin-Ups (bodyweight neutral grip or underhand) x 15 reps.....Join StrengthCoach.com to access the full article and more!

Part 1: A Paradigm Shift in ESD: Soccer as an Alactic-Aerobic Sport

David Tenney - High Performance Director at Orlando Magic NBA Team

There has been much debate over the past couple years about methods that should be employed within elite soccer during the training process. Most likely, such debate takes place because coaches may not fully understand the exact work demands imposed on soccer players, nor do they understand the required physiological response to training. The sport of soccer is typically termed an "intermittent field sport" in which there is a constant fluctuation of energy system demands placed on the participants. How exactly do we better classify field sports like soccer? Are they aerobic? Are they anaerobic? If we examine the work performed closely in such sports, we could probably conclude that such a field sport as soccer could be considered Alactic-Aerobic.

Match Demands

A recent study by Osgnach et al. (2009) performed a computer-video analysis evaluating the workload of almost 400 players in the Italian Serie A. The research summarizes that the typical workload of an elite level soccer player consists of:

• Mean total distance covered of 10-13km
• Players will normally spend up to 70% of the duration of the match in purely "aerobic" low intensity activities, with about 30% consisting of 15-20m higher intensity movements.
• "Sprinting" ended up being about 5-10% of the total distance covered in a match, yet only amounted to 1-3% of the total match time, which correlated to a 2-4 second sprint every 90 seconds.
• The most metabolically demanding work was performed when players accelerated up to 3 m/s2 or decelerated at -3 m/s2.

In light of these data, one would need to question which energy system are over- or under-utilized in athletes depending on their training status. In the past, many coaches have felt that the anaerobic system (glycolytic) would be the dominant energy system used to provide energy throughout a game....Join StrengthCoach.com to access the full article and more!