 Whether you're training by yourself practicing with your team or you have a big match It's so important that you take care of your body. In this video. I'm going to show you how to warm up for soccer so for me Whenever I'm warming up I always start with My shoelaces untied and I just feel that when my cleats have been in my bag All day and I bring them out. They're really tight and tense So I just kind of put them on and let my feet push them out into the perfect position Before I lace them up. So I like to do my warm up with my shoelaces untied Now physically, I'll start with some joint rotations So it might just start neck and work my way down to my ankles So focusing on warming up the joints just as much as the muscles now if you're watching this video and Import and warm up is important to you You're already ahead of everyone else because so many players neglect Their warm-up and when you're young it's totally understandable You want to get on the pitch and you want to just start blasting balls as hard as you can but that's very dangerous Can cause injury and If you don't warm up properly, you're not going to perform as well your muscles your body Your mind is not even going to be ready to perform. So from now on if you haven't in the past I really want you to take your warm-up seriously So do these joint rotations Go into the knees. They look a little bit ridiculous, of course, but I'm taking care of my body if you want to play longer One of a healthier career you want to play better. You want to increase your mobility. You want to be a better athlete Take care or take pride in your warm-up And it's gonna make a big difference immediately, but also in the long run You're gonna play way longer than everyone else. So after those joint rotations I'd go into those dynamics that you probably do with your team all the time Some heels Even when I'm by myself no one out here. I'm still doing a proper warm-up knees Twist something like that get the groins and Whether you're doing your warm-up by yourself or with your team Do it with a purpose the purpose is obviously to warm up your muscles But the purpose can be to increase your mobility to increase your flexibility You'll be in a team practice and your coach will ask you to do the warm-up And all the players are Yeah, yeah, yeah, just half half-assing it Take it seriously do it with intention if I'm doing a stretch Yes, I'm warming up the muscle, but every time Try to go a little bit higher a Little bit deeper. I'm trying to improve my mobility a little bit more okay, so Don't just do it for the sake of doing it do it to get better Good. I love doing these kicks all different directions Good and you can see it's not It's not lazy. There's a bit of rhythm to it a bit of bounce bit of intensity Good kicks in all directions after that Mainly do those stretches. I usually go into some more dynamic Like pulling dynamic stretches something like this warm up a few and Then I would go a Little bit deeper and again. I can do a stretch like this or I Can do it like this. Hey really focus on making the most if you're gonna do it do it the best that you can That's good for the quads Here for my hip sit down in this a little bit of balance at the same time when you're doing this if you're ever Fighting for balance so many people as soon as we start to pull out a balance or just give up Don't give up whatever you have to do fight fight for your balance Use it as an opportunity to improve as I said all parts of your athleticism Good so I might do a few of these I Like to come out to the side here Take care of your body you take care of your body body's gonna take care of you you treat your body poorly It's gonna give up on you Especially as you get older good And again focus on my full body warming up all the major muscle groups Good do a few of those so sad When you're a child you should be your most flexible your most mobile and as a baby you are but I see these kids these days Making myself sound so old Ten-year-old kid 12-year-old kid can't even touch his whole toes why he's probably been sitting in a couch in a chair all day Okay, so Really analyze yourself if you're a teenager and you can't even touch your toes What are you gonna look like when you're 50 years old? Okay, so focus on mobility and as I said if you're doing this try to increase the flexibility a little bit more each time So I might do some wide Good a few bends Well, you stretch this is body control. This is fitness. This is gonna make you stronger is gonna increase your balance increase your mobility It's not just getting warmed up It can be if you treat it like that or it can be a complete waste of time Or your warm-up can make you a better athlete a better player every single time you do it And that's how I want you to look at it from now on Good after that I would do Some leg swings maybe I do a partner in wigs thing if you're by yourself You can do with post or you can challenge yourself. You can do a balance As long as you're getting that range of motion But I love this exercise complete because it's warming up the front and the back leg entire leg lower back So I do those I might do some cross body Good now. I'm feeling pretty warm feeling pretty loose at this point my warm-up is not done I would start to get into some more actual running actual movement So I'm gonna stay in front of you. I'm not gonna run away, but I would do a couple lengths of the field Just casual just getting running and getting moving a little more opening up the stride a little bit Might do these shuffles a low shuffle Good karaoke at this point after I've done that a bit I moved around Now I feel pretty good Now I might get on the ball Okay, and if I'm by myself probably just start with some juggling Get some basic touches. So I've warmed up my body or I've warmed up physically Now let's warm up technically get a few touches Good all different types of touches After a bit of juggling Maybe I start moving On the ground and to be honest we do all these drills, but When I'm by myself, I'm not laying down cones I'm just taking the ball and doing what I want with it having fun getting touches after that Then I Might go into a little bit of shooting Get all the technical skills warmed up just a few things and at that point I Would start my session