 If you want to become a better player, these are five soccer training drills I want you to add to your current routine. In this video I'm going to show some soccer training drills and These are drills. I think everyone should add to their current training routine because the truth is it's really easy to come to the field to juggle the ball To shoot on that that stuff's fun. That's easy to motivate yourself to do that stuff But what's really going to make a difference in the way that you play is Doing things that you don't necessarily want to do and changing your mentality towards them. So things like speed strength agility Stamina mobility things that are actually going to make you a better athlete perform better on the field So I want to talk about some things that I do and I want you to think about adding these things Into your training session. So no ball to start. We'll come back to a ball But first thing I want you to think about is mobility in your warm-up. Can you make yourself more mobile? So this is one stretch that I absolutely love It's coming into a full squat Okay, trying to sit up chest up as much as I can don't hunch over like this I'm trying to set up and I'm using the post as an assistant So he's keeping me in this position where I should be able to get naturally Without help I should be able to come down here and sit here This should be comfortable. That's something that I have improved a lot But something I need to work on so do a little assessment of yourself. Can you sit into a full squat? Can you come down into a full squat naturally come back up? Work on that mobility. Okay, but the the reason this is so Hey, what's up? I hope you're finding this content helpful Watch this all the way to the end if you want to find out which subscriber got this video special shout out Great is I can come down here. I Can get really deep in there and I can work I can work on my mobility side to side Really pushing it out feeling in the groins feeling the hips Loosing up. So if you're an athlete right now, you consider yourself an athlete You're gonna go and play nine minutes gonna work as hard as you can You're gonna be sprinting all over the pitch But you don't even have the mobility to come here or you cannot even touch your toes You're asking to get injured. So to make yourself a better athlete focus on mobility This is one exercise. I love and one I would recommend that you add into your routine Just come and sit down here. You can be here for like 10 seconds wiggle around a bit come back up Do a few reps to that you'll feel it in here You'll feel in your hips and when you come up, you'll feel amazing do that for a week You'll be absolutely amazed and the improvement in your mobility and how your hips feel how you recover Everything's gonna be better the next thing that I would suggest you add is some form of agility training so You don't even need a ladder You can do things like this Working on a line Okay, but actually forcing your feet to go faster than they're used to So I like using the ladder. I'll just do different exercises I'd usually go through it really quick. Maybe it only take me like three minutes, but doing this daily makes me a lot sharper so singles doubles focus on the arm movement Just as much as the feet sideways Do a slalom and when you get tired, it's so easy just to give up and go slower That's when you need to push the most These are gonna be struggling in the beginning. They're gonna make your feet feel really heavy. You're gonna feel out of shape. This is good Fitness good stamina as well Another one I might do Pour it back. Okay, but adding some form of agility training to your soccer training It's gonna make you a better athlete Next thing that I want you to add to your training is actually sprinting so in between Focus on recovery if you're ever tired in a game and You just sit like this mouth open big heavy panting Just thinking about how tired you are You're not gonna recover as quickly as if you think about controlling your breath Calming the breath nasal breathing through the nose Focus on recovering as quickly as possible Calming the breath not a panicked rush breath So if you want to be faster, we actually have to practice the skill of running skills sprinting So I might just do like six prints five six prints, but I'm not just sprinting to get myself tired I'm sprinting thinking about how can I get faster? So I'm thinking about the technique of sprinting So I might just do like to the camera. Maybe that's 20 yards focus on accelerations, but here just a short distance like that Walk back recover Focus on the breathing. You're doing this for speed not for stamina. So let yourself recover in between You can do different types of starts. So maybe starting from quick feet and You can go from your chest From a jump. So jumping landing push-off From the ground but focus on the technique of sprinting So acceleration want to stay lower First couple steps. I'm staying low pushing staying low Over time let's say after those 30 yards Then I'm finally coming up most kids Start down here first step boom. They're already up straight. Okay, so try to keep that forward land forward lean through those first three steps so add mobility Add agility add speed the stuff you don't necessarily want to do and I want you to change your mentality towards that because You like juggling this ball. You like kicking it. It's fun to you. So you keep doing it. You keep getting better at it I have to like sprinting and that may seem like something you don't want to do But if you can adopt that mentality, I like doing physical work I like working hard because it's gonna make me perform better on the pitch then Suddenly the agility stuff becomes easier the sprinting the speed stuff. It becomes easier So change your mentality towards it. You're gonna be a better player because of it Once you've done the hard stuff The stuff you don't necessarily want to do do that stuff at the beginning of your session When you're sharp when your energy is high do that stuff Don't wait to the end when you're tired because then you're gonna leave early gonna cheat yourself Do that hard stuff get it out of the way become a better athlete then Get on the ball do the stuff that you want to do the stuff that you love to do so one thing I want you to add is Maybe you're working a little bit of ball control, but I always talk about it add that directional ball control that match realistic ball control moving with the ball Running with the ball after that you're gonna add shooting and you're not gonna do Stand still dead balls the whole time. You're gonna do realistic shooting. Yes, you have to practice free kicks Of course, you have to have that ability what I Want you practicing shooting off the turn shooting after a little bit of skill shooting with both feet and Practicing different types of shooting Are you only capable of striking the ball with your laces on your strong foot or can you curl the ball? Inside and outside of the foot Do you have the ability Just strike shots with both feet to hit the net consistently What about half volleys full volleys? but from now on Every time you go to the field by yourself. I want you to practice shooting different techniques regardless of your position 100 shots a day minimum The more reps you get I guarantee you you're gonna feel like a different player if you practice shooting every single day Work on the ball striking you're gonna become deadly attacker deadly in front of goal Even if you're a center back having that ability knowing that anytime you're around the net you can get a shot off and You can score a goal for your team is gonna give you a new sense of confidence So add these soccer training drills to your current training routine This is the featured subscriber for this video if you'd like to be featured in future videos Hit that like button drop a comment below and let me know how my videos have helped you improve and achieve more in this sport You