Soccer drill: warm-up on two lines
Suitable for the following techniques: condition
Warm-up on two lines
- You carry out this warming-up in two lines, for example from one side to the other side of the field or around it.
Execution:
- Players walk at a jogging pace and a few feet away from the player in front of them.
- The coach or a player is leading this warm-up by calling out instructions.
- Example: Walk from sideline to sideline, the captain leads the warming-up.
- He/she shouts e.g. jump, left or right hand on the ground. Another possibility is that the captain calls out “back to feed†and at “go†the two back players sprint forward.
Quality:
- It is a joint, team warm-up. All players keep the same pace.
Progression:
- Back to front, the back players run forward
- Front to back, the front players sprint forward five meters, then walk backwards and join the back of the line.
- Have the players run five metres apart. The back player sprints forward slalomming through the other players, or the front player turns around and sprints backwards slalomming.
- Use this as a conditioning exercise towards the end of a football training session, you can do it for up to 10 minutes.
- You can add all kinds of movements to this exercise. Experiment!