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[quote=Anonymous]If you have a kid on a top travel team, the game itself demands a certain level of fitness and I don't think you can get around that.  The bar depends on the level of play.

The questions should be more how a kid develops fitness in a safe, healthy way given their developing body, how they learn to do conditioning in a way that prevents injuries and increases fitness, how they learn the mental component to being fit.   There will be variation amongst gender (girls are more susceptible to some injuries) and age  (growth spurts, ages have certain issues).   There are also variations amongst kids - some girls are more prone to ACL injuries, some kids are prone to other injuries - hip, ankle.  We are extremely fortunate to be in an area that has a lot of resources to help parents and kids if you are serious.   There are also some really great on-line resources that really detail safe fitness for high level soccer, some targeted for girls, backed with a lot of science, data, articles, etc.   FitSoccer Queen is a good resource.

We have a coach that wants the team to have high fitness, is naturally evident in the level of play, but realizes you have to ramp up and more slowly ramp up post covid.   He also defers the fitness and conditioning to outside of practice with no set "plan" but some high level outcomes he would like the kids to achieve; I really appreciate that as it allows me to have a greater influence on the "how" my child achieves fitness levels .   [/quote]

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