Could it be time to fire your soccer trainer?

Winter is ending and spring is around the corner. People are gearing up for the outdoors and swimsuit season and the procrastinators are booking personal trainers. Most youth soccer players are gearing up for the Dallas Cup and their club season. Some high school players are ending their season and preparing to transition to club play again.

Personal trainers often say that clients can plateau in achieving their goals if they do not pursue variation in training. Weight loss, muscle building, endurance – these goals require variation or the client cannot improve, making the irony that a client can actually digress in ability. Maintenance seems to be a non-option in this arena.

Soccer, like most performance professions, is different from personal training methodologies because the best often accredit their success to doing the most simple, basic things. Soccer players and basketball players, for example, will spend countless hours shooting at the net. Handling and touching the ball. However, with the need for repeating the basics there is also the need to progress as a player.

Does your soccer trainer do the same exercises or training regimens each week? Is that a good or bad thing? It can be good and / or bad depending then on what the training is and how it is relayed to the student. It’s not bad to be doing certain drill and skills but the student should also be learning something new every week.

There are a lot of great soccer trainers. However, they are often limited to one training style – theirs. Their training cannot be fit to the needs of the player because a) the trainer’s training is one-dimensional, b) the trainer is limited on style or position of play, or c) the trainer does not have the experience as a player to advance the student beyond the trainer’s own level of play. Global Fútbol Training not only has trainers who have played at the collegiate and professional levels but remains plugged in to the soccer community on those levels. Also, there are multiple trainers and training styles, methodologies, and regional experience levels to choose from when choosing a trainer.