Getting fit for 5-a side football.

Noni Juice · 22 Oct 2009 at 23:16

What routines would you guys reccomend to become better at 5-a side football?

Sukh · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:38

Sprint fast, till you are out of breath. Jog, until recovery and repeat.

HarryPainful · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:12

HIIT will really help for this, actually playing will as well of course.

Mr-White · 24 Oct 2009 at 09:49

Work on your first time control, you should only ever need 2 touches tops

MW

scouse · 24 Oct 2009 at 10:55

HIIT will definitely help since the game is just a mixture of jogging and sprinting. Of course, as someone else has said, the main thing is actually playing and that'll get you used to the tempo.

davetrace1 · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:32

play 11 a side

Mr-White · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:34

davetrace1 said:
play 11 a side

Lol they're completely different

MW

TheCenturion · 24 Oct 2009 at 21:04

Deffo HIIT

if you don't know what that is, it's high intensity interval training.

this involves a certain period of sprinting, and then time jogging to recover. this is difficult on the treadmill, but can done on other machines.

A typical HIIT workout may be 30 seconds sprinting at 90% of your max speed, then jogging at around 60% for 30 seconds, repeated 15 times for a solid 15 min workout.

That takes care of the physical side, as Mr-White said, you should just play lots of 5 aside