How many hours a day does your kid train in the summer?

[Anonymous]

My kids, 15 years old boy and 14 years old girl, would like to get stronger and faster this summer. I just hire a physical trainer to train them. How many hours a day should they train? They don't have any other activities in the summer other than training to get stronger and faster when they resume soccer in the fall. TIA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids, 15 years old boy and 14 years old girl, would like to get stronger and faster this summer. I just hire a physical trainer to train them. How many hours a day should they train? They don't have any other activities in the summer other than training to get stronger and faster when they resume soccer in the fall. TIA

Probably 7-8 hours each day.

[Anonymous]

7-8 if not doing DA or ECNL. More if playing in one of those leagues. Even more if playing for Pipeline.

[Anonymous]

You just hired a trainer?

Does the trainer have an opinion about the duration/intensity of training, or will he/she just execute your plan from the internet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7-8 if not doing DA or ECNL. More if playing in one of those leagues. Even more if playing for Pipeline.

Hasn’t Pipeline gone full time residential? I heard that in addition to the 12 hours a day training, they wire the kids heads to a computer at night to train their brains while they sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7-8 if not doing DA or ECNL. More if playing in one of those leagues. Even more if playing for Pipeline.

Hasn’t Pipeline gone full time residential? I heard that in addition to the 12 hours a day training, they wire the kids heads to a computer at night to train their brains while they sleep.

I've heard that Pipeline is also the best club in Southern CAL too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7-8 if not doing DA or ECNL. More if playing in one of those leagues. Even more if playing for Pipeline.

OP here. 7-8 hours a day... WTF!!! Are you serious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7-8 if not doing DA or ECNL. More if playing in one of those leagues. Even more if playing for Pipeline.

OP here. 7-8 hours a day... WTF!!! Are you serious?

Those are for the lite days. Heavy days should be 13-14 over two a day.

[Anonymous]

OP, the previous posters are bullshitting you u less they’re also counting all transportation time, every moment spent eating or drinking anything (because it’s fueling for training), all time watching videos, chatting with teammates even about non-soccer things, and any moment they might even think of soccer during the day. Otherwise their kids would be limping into the season with a sub-par performance (and likely injured).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the previous posters are bullshitting you u less they’re also counting all transportation time, every moment spent eating or drinking anything (because it’s fueling for training), all time watching videos, chatting with teammates even about non-soccer things, and any moment they might even think of soccer during the day. Otherwise their kids would be limping into the season with a sub-par performance (and likely injured).

You have no sense of humor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, the previous posters are bullshitting you u less they’re also counting all transportation time, every moment spent eating or drinking anything (because it’s fueling for training), all time watching videos, chatting with teammates even about non-soccer things, and any moment they might even think of soccer during the day. Otherwise their kids would be limping into the season with a sub-par performance (and likely injured).

You have no sense of humor.

No - just an underachiever.

[Anonymous]

I like to focus on skills during the summer where the regular season is more about team training. I find some good soccer camps that focus on skill training. My son (U10) has gone to a couple of weeks of Phillip Gyau camp at Howard, will be at a fun camp (DC United) and will be playing a few 3V3 live tournaments.

[Anonymous]

My kids do lunges everywhere they go. If you can walk there, you can lunge there, I always say. Should be plenty strong come fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids do lunges everywhere they go. If you can walk there, you can lunge there, I always say. Should be plenty strong come fall.

Okay, that was funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids do lunges everywhere they go. If you can walk there, you can lunge there, I always say. Should be plenty strong come fall.

Lunges are so last decade. Bear crawls up mountains into headwinds with parachutes are a minimum to make to a club like Pipeline