Do you want to be faster and more explosive on the soccer field? Would you like to reduce your risk of injury? If so, keep reading!
Many soccer teams I coach or athletes I work with share a common trait when they warm up … they all warm up barefoot. Here is the reason for that. By wearing shoes all the time, we are not strengthening the small muscles of the foot as well as we could. Shoes obviously serve a purpose, but try to warm up your team without shoes on and by doing this you will start to strengthen all those little muscles in your feet, it will also help to strengthen the joints and ligaments in your ankle and lower leg. . as well as.
I’ve written about Active Dynamic Warm up (ADW) before. If players do their ADW (series of exercises to warm up their core body temperature and then dynamically stretch) before their practice begins, they are actually doing themselves a huge favor.
Since soccer players (and most athletes) use their feet so much not only to play the sport of soccer but also to be athletic, training your feet to get stronger will absolutely increase your soccer speed, make them stronger , which in turn will make them stronger. explosive and will also reduce the number of lower leg injuries.
While I know this example is a bit tricky, if you consider it, you can see how barefoot training can affect your feet. Alright, here’s the example. If you wore baseball gloves on your hands for 2 weeks and did your normal routine, when you took off your baseball gloves and then tried to open a new jar of peanut butter, you probably couldn’t. The small muscles in your hand got weak because you weren’t using them fully. The same applies when you wear shoes.
If you warm up barefoot, be sure to clear the area of rocks, clubs, or anything else that could damage a player’s foot. If you train indoors, this problem is greatly reduced.
Just 15 minutes of barefoot training will help soccer players generate more speed, increase agility, and help reduce lower leg and foot injuries.
I hope you have a good day!