What Girls Soccer Players Need Most: Speed and Strength for SOCCER!

04 Nov What Girls Soccer Players Need Most: Speed and Strength for SOCCER!

Posted at 11:20h in Blog, Speed by erica 0 Comments

Yes, I made it out alive from the tackle above. ;-O

Speed changes the game, while strength keeps female athletes in the game.

Speed gives female soccer players an edge to explode past defenders and execute dazzling counterattacks. Strength keeps muscle tissue strong so forces from the game do not damage the joints and bones.

Both take year-round training to truly maximize results so girls can progress gradually, get in their repetitions, while also sprinkling in training variability to overcome plateaus.

HERE is an article I wrote for Stack.com discussing these crucial components to female soccer performance training: The Two Missing Buckets In Female Youth Soccer: Speed and Strength.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erica Mulholland is a former college 3x All-American soccer player and now Hall of Famer from Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Master of Science in Exercise Science and has been helping female athletes of all sports with speed, agility, strength, power, and conditioning for over 13 years. She has worked with soccer, lacrosse, track, volleyball, softball, and basketball girls, and has inspired her athletes to strength train not just for sport, but for life.

Her athletes have gone on to play college sports at University of North Carolina, University of Maryland, Pittsburgh, University of Southern California, University of Detroit, Mercy, Northwestern, Eastern Carolina University, Georgetown, West Point, University of South Florida, University of Charleston, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, Towson University, and have gone on to play for professional various clubs in Europe.

Of course, she is proud of her athletes who made it to the college and pro levels, but she is most proud of her girls who stick with being strong and healthy for a lifetime. The training she does is about getting into good habits young, so girls can take these tools with them even after sports end.

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