Soccer Fitness Drills

Fitness and conditioning is a critical piece of soccer as the entire game is that of continuous running mixed with a lot of short bursts of high tempo, high-intense sprints. For this reason, it is essential to focus on both anaerobic (short duration, high intensity) and aerobic (running long distances) fitness to get your players to match fitness levels.

Soccer Fitness and Conditioning During Drills

Fitness and conditioning can be extra exercises before or after training sessions. However, incorporating high-intensity drills will allow coaches to improve your player's fitness levels while teaching the game. As a coach, remove lines from the training sessions, demand high intensity from the players, and take your drills and the player's fitness to the next level.

Soccer Fitness Drills Requires

• Anaerobic fitness - exercises defined as short duration of high intensity excercises.
• Aerobic stamina - exercise that uses oxygen to meet energy demands generally at light to moderate intensity.

Browse the Latest Soccer Fitness Drills

1v1 Attacking and Reaction Drill new

Chris Johnson 77 Views Rating 0 (0 Reviews)

This 1v1 soccer attacking drill focuses on the attacker making quick faints, a change of direction, and a burst of speed while causing the defender to react quickly to the attacker's movements.

Figure Eight Dribbling Drill

Chris Johnson 91,321 Views Rating 3.97 (31 Reviews)

The Figure Eight soccer dribbling drill is a good change to weaving in and out of cones and is great for dribbling with the inside and outside of the foot.

Zig-Zag Dribbling Drill

Chris Johnson 48,701 Views Rating 3.28 (18 Reviews)

The Zig-Zag soccer dribbling drill focuses on dribbling with speed with the inside, the outside, and the bottom of the foot.

T-Cone Dribbling Drill

Chris Johnson 121,744 Views Rating 3.19 (16 Reviews)

The T-Cone soccer dribbling drill focus on controlled touches, turns, and fitness.

Catch Me If You Can

Chris Johnson 163,368 Views Rating 3.48 (25 Reviews)

This soccer dribbling drill will focus on dribbling with speed as the players race to catch the other player.

6 vs 4 Team Training Numbers

Chris Johnson 104,510 Views Rating 3.47 (19 Reviews)

This 6 vs 4 team training drill focuses on passing and team play. The 6v4 soccer game is great finish to a passing training session.

7v7 Scrimmage

Chris Johnson 97,738 Views Rating 4.4 (5 Reviews)

It's always good to finishing a soccer training session with a 7 vs. 7 scrimmage to focus on team play.

Line Passing Overlap Warm-up

Chris Johnson 255,259 Views Rating 3.62 (187 Reviews)

This passing and overlapping warm-up soccer drill will help perfect the introduction of overlapping runs.

Line Passing Combination Warm-up

Chris Johnson 199,692 Views Rating 3.76 (127 Reviews)

This combination passing drill is designed to work on combination play while advancing up the field.

Three Person Passing Combination

Chris Johnson 281,807 Views Rating 3.78 (187 Reviews)

This passing combination drill will help perfect passing and combination play and improving player’s fitness level.