Performance Training for Soccer: What MJP can do for your athlete.
- Acceleration
- First step quickness
- Win more balls
- “running onto the ball”
- Reaction/Quickness
- Goalies more explosive on two or one foot takeoffs in goal
- Better tracking of attacker on defense
- Improved eye/body and eye/foot reaction times
- Balance/Leverage/Stability
- Maintain positioning/regain control after losing possession
- Hold defender off/gain leverage
- Decrease incidence/severity of lateral ankle sprains
- Power Endurance
- High speed, attacking style of play all game long
- Explosive Hip Power
- Use hip musculature correctly/improve hip rotator strength and stability
- Improves leg speed and ball striking speed/improve shot power
- Win more balls in the air w/ improved vertical explosiveness and reactive landing ability
- Decrease risk for ACL and ankle syndesmosis injury through improved landing mechanics
- Agility/Deceleration
- Improve ability to “settle”
- Improved ability to mark and cut; track the attacker
- Prehab/Corrective Exercise/Recovery Techniques
- For most commonly injured areas in soccer athletes
- How to recover most efficiently between practices, games, tourneys
- “Training is only as good as your ability to recover from it”