Off Season Soccer Workout Advice?!

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@Charlie_Francis

… very short speed work to improve “speed reserve”- that means the difference between the speed you have and the speed you normally need in game play. Improving speed reserve makes everything you do in the game easier- therefor increasing your ability to keep going late in the game.

Hi Coach,

I play a competitive field sport as well and haven’t gotten any faster with the same training protocol year after year. I’m trying your GPP program and hope it will take me to a new level. I’m in week 4 of the hill sprints and I “feel” stronger going up the hill. I plan to retest my 100 M and 400 M times to see if the have improved in mid July.

I have heard this speed reserve idea before and was wondering if anyone else on this forum has actually had it happen to them? Anybody do the GPP program for sport, get faster, and notice increased endurance(because you now don’t have to run as fast to do the same things anymore) for their sport?

I ask because there is “strength reserve” that is always discussed in strongman/CrossFit. If your deadlift/backsquat/press is stronger, than doing the WODs with weight should be easier and faster because you are using less of your Max every rep. In practice, I don’t actually see this happen though…