I recently purchased the DVD Aerobic Soccer Training and tried it with my team. As a soccer coach, I recognized that my players needed to perform skills at the highest speed possible, and I saw that Aerobic Soccer Training was a fresh and innovative ball control workout that would help all my players to develop better skills.

Set to pulsating music, Aerobic Soccer Training, or AST pushes players to display sound ball control under extreme fatigue. The music is a very good distraction, helping many players focus on the rapid, multiple and very fine touches essential to the workout.

This DVD is broken up into Basic and Advanced Level workouts, so I believe players who have good balance as early as 8 years old can jump on board and be on their way to total ball and body mastery more sooner than later. All my oldest players needed were 10 minutes to begin to understand the standards of a good soccer player to feel the pulse in their legs and to really begin to understand the standards of a good soccer player.

This training method makes training players, to become more composed, controlled and fluid when working with the ball, easier. My players are no different then thousands of other youth players in the way that they must understand how to control the ball, and themselves, at the same time, to truly enjoy the game of soccer. AST has helped my players find that joy and balance quickly.

Getting players to be comfortable at performing skills with confidence and pace is exactly what most all coaches want.

Aerobic Soccer Training is more then just an excellent training tool for the focused player; it is also an interventional tool in that it also challenges the distracted, bored, under-skilled, or reluctant player. Its philosophy is to build every player’s skill base of rhythm, foot skills, work rate and confidence in soccer.

This brings players skills up to moving at a quick tempo immediately. From this platform, my players’ ball skills developed faster while our practices have become more proactive and purposeful, as players build off the individual confidence developed through the AST session, helping bring more positive results to the group dynamic.

Coaches, looking for a fun and focused warm up routine at the beginning of practice? AST is it! Your players may be a little skeptical at the start, but after a minute or two everyone gets the pulse. They realize that this is a fun way to develop a lighter touch and a keener instinct to their game.

Mike Saif
Director
USSF A License
World Class Coaching LLC

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