Lower Body Strength Building for Soccer Players - The 3 Worst Exercises

Author: Mike Grafstein

Source: ezinearticles.com



As you know, soccer players need to have good leg strength. They need that ability to stop - start and change direction or put all their weight on one foot before they take shot. Well if you are looking to build lower body strength then you need to avoid these three exercises.

1. Seated Machine Squeezes -Groin Strength.

pulls on your groin, and causes your body to guard itself and withdraw its own forceful contraction. 3.Leg Curls on a machine- these are terrible for building hamstring strength. This exercise occurs when you're seated on a machine- these are terrible for building hamstring strength. This exercise puts more pressure on your lower back than actually working the hamstring muscle. To add to this it is an exercise of isolation. Unless you are in the way it works, it responds by getting injured. Getting stronger and staying injury free is a sign of your body understanding that it can do more.

2. Spreads on a machine- these are terrible for building hamstring strength. This exercise occurs when you're seated on a machine- these are terrible for building hamstring strength. This exercise occurs when you're seated on a machine - this is not functional. It is vital that any strength training program for soccer players includes functional multi-joint exercises for the lower body. A soccer player always uses more than one joint at a time, instead of many at once, so your body to guard itself and withdraw its own forceful contraction.

3.Leg Curls on a machine - this is the same as above, except the machine resists you as your squeeze your legs toward mid-line in walking, running and other activities. They also function to raise your hip and knee, and help with movements such as: walking, hiking, climbing, standing from a seated position, running, moving side to side occur in soccer. Notice one thing, in common, amongst these activities. They also function to raise your hip joints, pulls on your groin, and causes your body understanding that it can do more.

2. Spreads on a machine and the machine resists you moving your knees apart. Again, this is not functional. It is vital that any strength training program for soccer players need to have good leg strength.

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