Early warming in the grassroots (I)

In the next post we will discuss some of the principles that governed warming in the grassroots, which must adapt to the formative stage of the player. This makes some principles are established based on the characteristics of young players.

1. Individualization. In football as in many other sports there are specific positions on the field, so each player must develop capabilities based on their specific position, which makes heat needed to indicate that one or the other aspects. Thus, it is recommended to allow players a time of 4 to 5 minutes so that they can perform exercises necessary for its activity in the field.

Goalkeepers recommended take the field for 10 minutes before exercise and after that heat specifically with other peers. The goalkeeper is a different player and depending on its success variables warming must focus on one or another aspect. Thus, we individualize heating in order to achieve higher performance of each of our young players.

2. Globalization. There is evidence that it is not necessary to concentrate the training of young players in improving physical performance from an analytical point of view. Often, young players get enough physical training through exercises and global games (Bangsbo, 1997). Thus, we can observe heating models for prebenjamines, youngest and fry (see II of the article) that there are global warming tasks where the player works different muscle groups and technical and tactical contents. Moreover, the heating should focus on the willingness of all muscle groups.

3. Variety. The variety of heating can be understood in different ways. They are known and necessary changes that occur in the same physical object as a result of the session, warm up for sessions of strength, endurance, etc. (Lake, 2002). On the other hand, the variety of professional footballers warming (where most days made at least one session) causes increased motivation and approach the goal of the session.

4. Specificity. This principle should normally give in warmups we usually do during training. Importantly, it is preferable that the exercises whose coordination structure match the main training, since we still see coaches using exercises or analytical games that have little to do with football and even less with the task you intend to work in your session.

Sanchez, D. & Donoso, A. (2003). Basics of warming in football basis I. Objectives and Principles. Eph difital magazine Sports, Year 9 - Nº 63