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  • Top Bins, Daisy Cutters and Worldies: A Visual Guide to Football (soccer) Shot Types

    Top Bins, Daisy Cutters and Worldies: A Visual Guide to Football Shot Types Football has more slang than any other sport, and most of it describes exactly what a ball does when someone kicks it. Where does it land? How does it move through the air? How was it struck? Here’s a simple guide, with…

  • Football Resistance Training

    Football Resistance Training: A 2-Day-a-Week Programme (In-Season & Pre-Season) That Actually Works Most amateur and semi-pro footballers either don’t lift weights at all. The ones that do train at the gym like a bodybuilder and turn up to Saturday’s match with heavy legs and arms. Both are wrong – or at least not optimal, and…

  • Football Warm-Up Routine & Football Stretching [.pdf]

    Football Warm-Ups & Stretching – Full Blog Post Football Warm-Ups, Stretching & Prehab, What Actually Works Most teams still warm up wrong. They stand in a circle. They hold static hamstring stretches. They believe stretching stops injury. All three are out of date. Sports science moved on years ago. The team next to you on…

  • Football (soccer) Fitness Training Program .pdf [Updated Sept. 2025]

    Football is a demanding sport that requires endurance, power and agility. And lots of technical skills and abilities! Ideally a conditioning or fitness program (“programme” is the correct UK spelling by the way), should be periodised and the volume and intensity should be significantly different during the off or pre season compared to during the…

  • Football (Soccer) Warm Up Drills .pdf [2023]

    As everyone knows by now, warming up is important in order to mitigate the risk of injury and optimise performance. It can be tricky to make up a warm up for football on the spot however, and many players end up taking shots at the keeper for their warm up. In this post, we’ll look…

  • Sport Science Overview for Football [2024]

    I’ve made a quick video regarding sport science for football or soccer. It can be applied to most sports though, including MMA. I’ve found most coaches to be pretty old school – generally angry w*nkers with no ability to coach players on the football pitch, other than to shout vague insults born out of frustration.…

  • Sports Nutrition for Soccer / Football pdf

    Today I did the washing and the hoovering, then this ebook: Click link to download —> Sports_Nutrition_for_Football_1-4 available on Kindle here