Reply To: Fitness of today’s young players and the new Super Exercise

[Eric Fink]

Our strength and conditioning coach does a dynamic warmup that is game like.

He takes all the guys (23) and puts them in a circle. He takes 4 hurdles of different sizes and places them from smallest (knee high) to the largest (right at or above the naval) about two feet apart. The guys in the circle are given a soccer ball. They juggle it trying to keep the ball off the ground using their knee, feet, etc. If the ball hits the ground, the player who's fault it was, runs over to the hurdles and quickly does a two foot hop over all four hurdles and returns to the circle where all the guys have started again with the soccer ball.

I think our guys do it for 15-20 minutes or so. I think they even end it with if you drop it, you have to do the hurdles then sit out until there are just two left in the circle.