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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?
Exercise helps 😛
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 2x7 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)
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 😆
Oxygen tent just off the pitch?
All interval training.
As said shuttle runs, fartleks, hill reps.