I’ve used a variety of endurance tests with soccer players to assess fitness including the traditional bleep / beep test, the 6″ run test, the Cooper test, and the YoYo Intermittent Recovery 2 (YoYo IR2) Test. There are many more including the YoYo IR1, YoYo Intermittent Endurance...

One of the main concerns of soccer (or any court or field sport for that matter) fitness coaches is how to sustain fitness developed during a very short pre-season through the end of a very long competitive season when detraining of some physical capacities can be so steep. The following...

Here’s a response I wrote for an interview I did over at SpeedEndurance.com as part of their “Friday Five” Series. To read the entire interview please click here and be sure to share and like on facebook and twitter. Q: Repeat Sprint Ability is a good indicator of...

Although many are still convinced that anaerobic glycolysis vomit-inducing sessions are the best means for training soccer specific fitness, the evidence refuting this viewpoint is mounting. While there’s certainly a time and place for it one has to be careful in the application....