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  • 5-a-siders help me get match fit quick
  • andygreener
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    Not been playing due to a broken arm, not been able to do much else either some stationery bike stuff. What could I do to make it back to a but if fitness before I start playing properly. I thunk I’ll be wheezing around the pitch for a few weeks- any tips to help speed things up?

    Posted 13 years ago
    Smarty
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    Exercise helps 😛

    Posted 13 years ago
    theotherjonv
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    shuttle runs backed with bleep test type stuff.

    5-a-side (proper 5 a side) is all about multiple fast sprints. You need a base fitness which stationary bike will help with but you need to be able to sprint, recover, sprint, recover, over and over for 2×7 mins.

    If you’re talking about mates 5-a-side (60 mins, 34-all when the next group are lining up / next goal wins) then it’s all about sprints for the first ten minutes and then endurance.

    (unless you play in goal like I did; in which case best preparation is to throw yourself onto concrete repeatedly and them have a mate smash balls at you from about 3 yards – aiming mainly at your nads and face)

    Posted 13 years ago
    Smarty
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    Right across from our house is a quiet lane that accesses the fields and I see this guy every day, about late 40s, not sure he’s all there, doing running on the spot and sprinting between 2 posts, star jumps, running backwards etc, he looks a proper knob! I had a chat with him one day while walking the dog and he said he was an ex-footballer (nobody famous) who gave up through injury but liked to keep fit without paying for the gym, so he goes for a walk, finds a quiet lane, spends 20 minutes running about and walks home, simples.
    Just getting out there and doing something is the key, I suppose. Try the local park or any open space.
    Me, I’m gonna make another cuppuchino and read the paper 😆

    Posted 13 years ago
    geoffj
    Full Member

    Oxygen tent just off the pitch?

    Posted 13 years ago
    backhander
    Free Member

    All interval training.
    As said shuttle runs, fartleks, hill reps.

    Posted 13 years ago
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