Football Fitness and Training

Fitness, training and diets
Like everything else in football, fitness, training and diets have all changed over the centuries. In the 1970s, footballers would think nothing of eating pie and chips the night before a game, and training sessions used to consist of football players running nine or ten miles on roads, but since the 1990s most clubs have fitness and even nutrition coaches to guide them through a strict routine and diet.

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Putting science into practice
Football just got more sophisticated over the last 15 years, thanks mainly to the ways information from computers and a change in most people's lifestyle have been introduced. Pre 1990, it seemed that fitness and training routines had just been passed on from one generation of football coaches to the next without anyone really analizing training routines and diet. It is now true to say, conditioning is at the forefront of association football and scientific research helps clubs to understand the demands of professional footballers much better. Each club's manager or coach wants their players to be fitter, stronger and quicker than the opposition and there are two ways of achieving this, you either have to have more naturally gifted players or better conditioned football players than your opponents. Conditioning players has become more relevant than ever before, putting science into practice though is not easy but the benefits if getting it right are immense.

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