Athletic training tailored to soccer players became known in 2006 through Jürgen Klinsmann, who appointed fitness guru Mark Verstegen, a coach specifically responsible for this topic, to the DFB coaching staff. Approaches to specifically improve the athleticism of soccer players have been around for considerably longer, and role models in other sports have existed for decades. Today, soccer athletic training has become a matter of course. Also at the IST-Studieninstitut, where in April for the first time the six-month further training of the same name starts.
With the advanced training course "Football Athletics Training", participants improve their coaching skills in the field of athletics and learn how to bring footballers up to their performance optimum in accordance with the latest scientific findings. The target group includes not only soccer players and soccer coaches, but also fitness trainers and sports-affine career changers who would like to specialize in soccer athletic training.
Soccer athletic trainers are not only employed by professional clubs, but also by amateur clubs, which are increasingly focusing on achieving the physical prerequisites for footballing success by means of appropriate training management.
"What good is the best ball handling to a player if he is not able to call it up over the full playing time? If he is regularly overrun when tempo dribbling or is generally frequently injured?" asks IST lecturer Simone Schubert, who has many years of experience as an athletics and rehab coach at FC Bayern Munich.
Answers to these and further questions around the topic soccer athletic training are available starting from April. Registrations for the advanced training are still possible, a few places are still available. For more information, visit www.ist.de/fussball-athletiktraining.
Source: IST Study Institute
Published on: 8 March 2019