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Aug, 2017

FIFA 11 Plus Injury Prevention Training

As I explained during the parent meeting, we'll be working on basic conditioning using FIFA 11 + injury prevention warm up programs. There's quite a bit of information on the warm-up program on FIFA's website. It is an injury prevention program developed by sports scientists and FIFA, soccer's international governing body. This short presentation provides some background on why this type of program is used: https://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/9_health_fitness_of_the_female_football_player_55025.pdf

For the girls who'd like to see live action demonstration, Alex Morgan & Cobi Jones did a series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-W9Gn-XDQ_pIeE4mo1mgBb4OwyGc0UGU (if the link does not work, search YouTube for Alex Morgan and Fifa 11. Many of the exercises will be familiar to them. We will not be doing all of the advanced pylometric exercises (1 legged jumping....) since some of the exercises are not really designed for younger players with growing bones who are still working on balance and strength. I mentioned to those who attended, you can also see many different teams running through these same exercises before professional games.