Soccer Virtual Clinic

• Understand the basics of the autonomic nervous system and its impact on performance
• Learn to teach preventative stress management skills from the weight room
• Improve awareness and capability for supporting athletes in mentally distressing situations

• Understand why consistent monitoring of players is a better approach than pre-season screening alone
• Using of evidence to set-up and to apply monitoring for elite level soccer
• Be able to outline the different uses of force platform testing in soccer players

• Understand how bioenergetic substrate utilization differs in youths and adults
• Explain ideal nutrient balance at meals and snacks for optimal fueling and recovery
• Discuss why maintaining hydration is important for performance, and how much water youth athletes need during exercise

• Understand that time for in-season strength and conditioning is limited, so how do we combat this issue?
• Learn various warm-up strategies and areas to consider for injury risk reduction, mobility, and session-prep
• Introduce the concept of micro-dosing and how to incorporate various fitness qualities to minimize in-season training losses

• Provide specific and real-life examples of implementing a return to running rehabilitation program
• Develop standardized benchmarks and a written plan from "cleared to run" to full return to training
• Importance of maintaining athletic qualities during the transition into soccer-specific techniques

• Designing training sessions based on periodization principles
• Provide an overview of different types of periodization in soccer
• Discuss different examples microcycles for youth, high school, college, and professional soccer players