Asian Soccer Star – Nutrition and Recovery

Soccer Injuries – the Bane of Soccer Players

November 23, 2010 By himmet 1 Comment

Asian soccer star, London – We’re nearly half-way through the soccer season and at a point where soccer injuries are rife in youth players. Mostly this is due to improper technique, but the cold weather can be a major contributing factor.

Take Sobha for example, now 14 years old he’s spent the last three years training hard and improving his technique in every part of his game. We’re talking right from the bio-dynamics of his running to his speed, agility, strength, endurance, awareness and technical ability.

Every part of his training schedule has been carefully scripted by experts in their field to make sure he is physically and mentally prepared to compete to follow his dream to become a professional soccer player. To become an Asian Soccer Star. [Read more...]

Filed Under: himmet, injury, running, soccer injuries, technique, warm up Tagged With: asian soccer, Asian Soccer Star, improper technique, professional soccer player, soccer injuries, strength endurance

Full recovery is so important for soccer training

July 30, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

The flu bug has really taken the life and energy out of me and although I feel a lot better I have to be careful.

I want to get straight back into soccer training because I feel like i’ve lost valuable days and my fitness has gone down. But my coach and my family want me to rest a few more days and make sure I fully recover from the flu virus before I put my body through any stress.

I can understand where they’re coming from because i’ve been fully briefed on how I may have got the flu in the first place, and how my immune system needs to be strong enough to fight off any more viruses and bacteria that might be around. [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, recovery, sobha, soccer injuries, speed and agility Tagged With: fitness levels, flu virus, swine flu, viruses and bacteria

Has soccer training made me sick?

July 28, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

Sometimes I get sick of soccer training, but I know I have to carry on, especially if I want to become an Asian soccer star playing professional soccer.

But over the past few days I feel that my training is actually made me sick. I feel tired, out of energy and have a splitting headache.

And before you say it, no it’s not swine flu! I don’t have a high temperature, which according to the new nhs pandamic flu helpline, is one of the symptoms. [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, energy, recovery, sobha Tagged With: recovery, soccer star, soccer training, swine flu

Asian soccer star dream can be lost!

July 20, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

I want to be an Asian soccer star playing professional soccer and am willing to train as much and as hard as I need to.

But last week I learnt a really important lesson that will have a really big impact on whether I make it as an Asian soccer star or not.

The problem is that training hard and long can make you more likely to get an injury, as I learnt. I started to get a pain in my hip area everytime I kicked the ball or attempted to practise any skills. Luckily my coach knew that this could lead to problems and told me to rest.

After seeing the physio I learnt that it was an inflammation caused by overuse and my core muscles around my hip needed to be strengthened. [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, sobha, soccer injuries Tagged With: asian soccer, balance, core strength, flexibility, functional strength

Soccer training and overuse injuries

July 18, 2009 By himmet Leave a Comment

Sobha’s busy soccer training schedule could have lead to overuse injuries if we hadn’t been monitoring his progress and adjusting the intensity of the work involved.

Slight pangs of pain alerted us to an area around his hip which is prone to overuse in youth soccer players.

Coupled with another growth spurt his training program and schedule has been reevaluated and restructured.

The importance of monitoring, analysing and adjusting kids soccer training programs is so important that parents and coaches who overlook to put a safety mechanism in place risk the future soccer careers of their kids.

Here are a couple of articles that may help you understand more about soccer training overuse injuries.

How To Recognize and Prevent Overuse Injuries in Soccer
by Gary A. Levengood, M.D.

Soccer, one of the most popular team sports in the world with over 200 million registered players worldwide, is a game of nonstop action. Most injuries in soccer occur in the lower body, mostly to the knees and ankles. [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, himmet, soccer injuries Tagged With: footy4kids, growth spurt, soccer injuries, tendon tissue

Make sure you don’t get dehydrated!

June 30, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

This hot weather is awesome, but it really affects my training schedule.

I can’t get to sleep because it’s too hot and putting the fan on only pushes warm air around the room. If I can’t get to sleep, I end up waking up late… but dad lets me get away with that as long as I don’t make excuses while i’m training.

Then there is the bigger problem of getting dehydrated because of the hot weather.

What i’ve learnt is that as long as I drink water throughout the day i’m ok. The minute I start to feel thirsty I know i’m in trouble and i’ll start to feel dehydrated during my training session. [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydration, sobha Tagged With: dehydration, hot weather

Soccer train me like a kid, not an adult!

June 20, 2009 By himmet Leave a Comment

A while back, one of the kids I was soccer training just blurted it out “soccer train me like a kid, not an adult!”. I was stunned, but it opened my mind to the possibility that I may not have a full understanding of how to coach young soccer players.

Working with children needed specialist knowledge and understanding, which I gained through a mentor working with children and completing children fitness courses.

Coaches need to have a real understanding of how to bring the best out of young soccer players. The problem is that most of the information out there is based on adult training methods. That’s because the adult body, with regard to training, has been studied pretty thoroughly and that is where the expertise has been developed. [Read more...]

Filed Under: himmet, performance, soccer injuries Tagged With: adult body, biomechanics, fitness courses, hip injuries, soccer drills, soccer players

Weak buttocks can ruin your Asian soccer star dream!

June 1, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

So you want to be an Asian Soccer Star?

I know I do, and I just found out that I can ruin my dream because of weak buttocks, of all things.

I used to get a lot of knee pain and thought it was because of a growth spurt. But when I went to have my running analysed and video-taped one of the problems was in how I was using my buttock muscles, the gluteus medius.

“The gluteus medius should be considered in every running injury”, says Sean Fyfe in the opening words of his article in the new Sports Injury Bulletin.

He also says “so many athletes with running overuse injuries of the [Read more...]

Filed Under: sobha, soccer injuries Tagged With: gluteus medius, growth spurt, running technique, sports injury bulletin

Soccer Training Wake-up Call

May 21, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

Soccer training has always been something I look forward to, it’s the waking up in the morning that I really used to hate. Until, a few weeks ago, when my dad set me a project to find the best way of waking up happy and refreshed.

The first thing I already knew was that my body needs plenty of rest and relaxation to recover properly. So i’ve decided to get to bed earlier. The problem has always been in waking up by myself without an alarm clock or someone waking me up. This always leaves me feeling stressed and miserable.

As I was looking into my ‘new project’ I came across some interesting stuff. I learnt that we sleep in cycles of about an hour and a half. [Read more...]

Filed Under: energy, sobha Tagged With: good mood, soccer training

Soccer injuries, why don’t I tell my soccer coach?

May 14, 2009 By sobha Leave a Comment

Soccer injuries or football injuries, as we say in the UK, can ruin careers. Even the smallest, niggling feeling of something wrong can lead to something more serious.

I really should know all about the feeling you get when you are out injured. A feeling that you are losing out, that you may never catch up with your team mates. A feeling that you may not get picked every game and will spend a lot of time on the bench. An even worse feeling that you might not ever reach your dream of playing professional football.

Early on this season I broke my collar bone, while in a tackle with a bigger lad, and was out for 4 months. Those 4 months were the worst months of my life as I had joined a new team in a higher league and was really starting to show my potential as a striker. There was nothing I could do to keep my fitness, not even light training. I just had to watch from the sidelines and pray that my injury would heal properly. [Read more...]

Filed Under: sobha, soccer injuries Tagged With: ankle pains, broken collar bone, growth spurt, soccer injuries