An old saying in martial arts self-defense is that you should keep your punches up and your kicks down. That is, don’t kick above the waist. Like most rules, this one has some exceptions.
For example, if you’re flexible and quick, there’s no reason not to follow a blitz with a roundhouse to the head. In keeping with the above rule however, I’d say at least avoid leading with a high kick.
If you want to follow the rule strictly, here are two great kicks for the street.
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Depending on the competitiveness of your league, the objectives of your gameday plan will vary. Some coaches may be “coaching to win,” while others are simply trying to make sure each player gets an equal amount of playing time.
Regardless of your situation, I have a few pieces of coaching advice that any volunteer youth soccer coach can benefit from.
Your general practice plan, that is the broader objectives of what you are trying to do at practice, should be rooted in developing the kids on your team into better individual and team players. You make them better individually by improving their ball skills mostly. Work on trapping, dribbling and passing and your players should become more comfortable with the ball.
Are you feeling a little stale about running at the moment? Is it hard to remember what is so exciting about pushing yourself physically? This happens to all of us at some time. Sometimes it is because of an end of season back-off in training, or maybe because it is because of overtraining or an injury. Whatever the cause, at some stage in your running, it is inevitable that you will find a temporary drop in your normal motivation.
There are any number of ways to re-kindle your motivation, but the easiest I can think of is to return to one of the basic benefits of running.
Do you want to run a marathon for the first time? A good training schedule is important to avoid healthy risks and injuries. The distance of this run is 42,195 km or 26 miles 385 yards. You will understand the need of a good preparation to start this athletics event. Nobody will do the same like the Greek soldier Pheidippides who ran the entire distance without stopping from Marathon to Athens and died by his arrival.
How to train for a marathon depends of the current condition of the runner. Some important questions are:
When training for long-distance races like the marathon, a sense of mental weariness can easily creep into our approach, making the training runs seem more like a chore than something to look forward to. Here are some tips to increasing the enjoyment during training runs:
Have you seen Dwight Howard’s Kiss The Rim Dunk? What about the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest where he completed an alley oop dunk from teammate Jameer Nelson and slapped a sticker onto the backboard which reached 12 ft 6 in?!
Or, did you know that the 21-year old Orlando Magic Center had the most dunks in the NBA last season (254, that are 508 out of his total 1,443 points last season, or 35 percent)?
Ok, by now it’s clear the guy can jump – actually he has a 39-inch vertical.
So, what is his training about?
“Get big calves with only 10 sets of 20 repetitions every other day”. Just imagine the amount of time required for that program! Unfortunately many calf-training articles preach ridiculously high-repetition sets and training frequencies in comparison to routines for most other muscles. Granted, the calves are a difficult muscle group to increase in muscle mass, BUT/ there is no evidence to support the notion that the muscles respond better to high-repetition and light load training.