How much does your player practice/workout a week?
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Anonymous
| Over training, Over, training, overtraining. I keep hearing about it and then I hear that it’s not as common as you’d think. My player practices/workouts about 10-13 hours a week including team and personal sessions, some parents say that’s insane, others say, “that’s it?”. What’s your take on amount or training and how much does your player train? |
Anonymous
| HS aged daughter (plays club - not HS soccer)...1.5 hr practice 4Xweek + 1 hour private lessons + 2 hrs weight training a week = 9 hours a week. Then a 90 min game on the weekend if you want to count that. D1 offer in hand. |
Anonymous
| U11- 2 1.25 hour practices, 1 1 hour practice plus an hour of keeping practice. 1 or 2 games per weekend |
Anonymous
| If I'm not mistaken, the people yelling "over use" or "burn out" say to limit organized training to one hour per week for each year of age, so according to the experts, a 13 year old is OK to train 13 hours a week. My kid trains 3 days a week with his team for 1.5-2.0 hours per session and then does supplemental training 1 day a week for 90 minutes but hangs out at the field for another hour or so with friends shooting, etc. He has a league game on the weekend and he usually plays a pick up game or guest plays or something else on the weekend too. During breaks during school/distance learning, he always goes down the basement and kicks, dribbles, juggles, etc. That's his calming mechanism I guess. He also strengths trains 2-3 times a week for about 45 minutes each time...So my kid is 14...I would say he's training around 11-12 hours a week on average. He's been doing this year round for as long as I can remember as well. He is on a top team in the DMV. No offers in hand. : ) |
Anonymous
| 13 year old. 2 hr practice 2 times a week, 1.5 hour conditioning once a week, 1-2 games each week, plus 1 hour practice and hour game for a second sport each week. On the one off day he usually goes to the field with friends to practice. So 9—11 hours organized, 1-2 on his own. |
Anonymous
| Child's team trains 4x a week. They would train 5x if the coach set it up. Not sure how much of this interest is generated from virtual learning or quarantine but the team loves being together and training. Pretty cool to observe. |
Anonymous
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Coach here -
Have kids in college now so don't recall the exact amount of hours per week, needless to say it varied as they aged with more time as they got older. I don't hear much about over training, but I'd certainly caution about over USE and mental burnout. Kids in general, need time to be kids. What I mean by over USE is repetitive training that stresses a specific muscle group or joint. Your training, whether with a team, private training, or on your own should vary in the movements made and in intensity. If you player does other sports, such as track, cross country, swimming, etc. that require repetitive movement in addition to soccer, I would definitely pay closer attention to any muscle or join pain. |
Anonymous
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It’s not just the number of hours per week that is important but the intensity of the practice/training during each session that is important.
Some of the team practices are not that intense. Hence, a two hour team practice might not be as intense as a 30 minute vigorous/strenuous training session. |
Anonymous
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14 yr old boy. Organized team training 4 x 1.5 hrs. Work alone or in small group / pickup game 12 hrs. Weight training 3 hrs. Games (~3 per week) ~4 hrs. Total 25 hours.
I'm OK with this as it is all driven by him. |
Anonymous
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For us the real problem was the off the field time: commute to the practice, preparation and warmups, calming down, etc. We spent as much time before and after practice as we did in practice, which really led to burnout conditions.
Moved to a new club that is 15 minutes tops and it has really made a differenc. |
Anonymous
Yeah. I'm the guy with the DS doing 25 hours a week. If you add drive and bike time, that's over 35 hours per week. It sure doesn't leave much time for anything else. |
Anonymous
Can you provide a scenario in the average kid's weekly soccer practices that may lead to an over use injury? My kid's practices seem to be very varied with lots of running, jumping, change of direction, back pedaling, failing, getting up, etc. |
Anonymous
Your kid If they are not playing on 3 or more teams shouldn't have any over use injuries is the aren't obese or are recovering from a major injury. |
Anonymous
| Probably not as much as he should. Three 90 minute practices, one game, and usually about 1.5 hours total pickup games. The issue is that he also plays tennis, and there are only so many hours in the day to devote to sports, since he has non-athletic hobbies too. |
Anonymous
| Do you mean just soccer or do you mean things like weight training for soccer? |