Improving speed and acceleration?

mr tommo

mr tommo

mr tommo

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I play 11 a side football and I'm a winger. I used to be able to knock the ball past players and beat them and had a pretty decent turn or pace and agility.

This was about 2 years ago (Im 23), I had an injury that kept me out for 18 months - back problem which resulted in multiple injuries around hip, groin and a hernia.

So I'm back to playing again now and have been for 6 months. I'm back to the same weight I was before, 5' 9'' and 10 1/2 stone. I just don't have that explosive speed and more. My game has totally changed because of this and I don't hav the confidence to go past players anymore. I'm still one of the quickest in the team so not exactly slow but I want to be able to turn, accelerate and run faster.

I know there is some very knowledgable people on here so I'd like some advice, excercises, drills, links to help.

I've done a couple of google searches and the theory is all there but some of the site want you to buy programmes from them etc.

Thanks :)
 
Thanks guys I will look into plyometrics. Not something I've heard of before.

Haven't really got access to weights so this looks good to me.
 
Thats an interesting read there. I am far from injury free and my poor hip/alignment mean I regularly have back pain and see an osteopath when it gets too much, which is usually after a month of football and training. If I leave it longer than that the allignment usually results in a muscle injury on the outside of my hip, groin or top of quads area.

I will be having a good read around and see if I can pick up a decent book or read some studies.

Is this the sort of thing we are talking about?

 
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