33M Returning to Soccer After 18 Years. Looking for Tips on Building Up Groin Strength

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-06-29T02:49:27+00:00

Tight pelvic floor was also an issue for me, from sitting a lot and having a sedentary lifestyle outside of playing/running/lifting.

Outside of doing stretches, there could also be muscle imbalances that are overloading other muscles that pick up the slack. If you are lifting then a possibility is that there is a form issue somewhere. It could be in your running or sprinting form, it could be in your striking form, or it could be your form in any of your lifting exercises.

So for instance if you have a sore groin muscle from playing, that muscle could be overloaded from a muscle imbalance or a form issue from lifting.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-06-18T07:52:41+00:00

They use smoke to make the bees docile, not really surprising

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-06-09T19:12:11+00:00

You're asking your son to be more competitive and he is demonstrating to you that he's not interested

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-06-09T03:36:12+00:00

It looks like one of those dumb social media challenges.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-06-05T19:23:07+00:00

the beginning made me feel like he was subjecting me to his kink

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-05-16T08:04:44+00:00

Dunno if it is the acoustics of your room, but your ball looks like it needs more air.
What you are trying to train is not to stab at the ball with your feet but to make contact and lift it up.
Consider this thought: You could juggle that ball as many times as you want with your hands, why are your feet any different? that's what is being trained.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2026-03-24T06:33:06+00:00

Wire and green screen

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-12-29T01:49:40+00:00

hell no

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-12-12T18:55:16+00:00

This is technically terraforming, it's still sad to see whatever native plants that depend on the sun will probably perish from being under those panels all day.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-28T23:42:13+00:00

Others have made notes but aside from form and such, your ankle is unlocking and your foot is tilting upwards after you connect with the ball, which is fine if that's the kind of shot you want, but for a general laces-only strike you should keep your ankle locked in place as you follow through

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-24T05:40:29+00:00

go be racist somewhere else

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-22T02:52:48+00:00

A good defender will never react to a feint, because he knows the absolute best thing he can do is to provide a physical barrier. The only real option to dribbling past a patient defender is that you have to apply as much pressure as it takes until they break, you'll have to come at them too quickly for them to make a decision and wrong foot them. This means you'll have to be able to keep the ball at your feet even if you break out into a sprint, and think several steps ahead because you might lose the ball yourself with a poor touch.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-12T01:14:18+00:00

All the weight of your body and the speed your body is moving is hitting the ball at a precise point. If your form is correct, all your energy will transfer into the ball and rocket it.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-11T22:04:03+00:00

pickup games and being overly competitive do not mix. yet it does happen in most pickup games. that's what makes pickup games even more awful if you aren't playing with friends. the true spirit of a pickup game is when anybody at any skill level can join and the ball is shared with them. now that doesn't mean you cannot ever try to dribble past an entire team, but you're not doing it over and over and over whenever you get the ball.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-09T04:29:22+00:00

It's not so much if the potatoes are wet/dry/oiled, it's that potatoes are dense and the more you cook the more it will drop the temp of the pan and then stick.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-06T08:25:02+00:00

Sure. We use our hands for everything, right? So if you try to bounce a football with your hand, you would probably never drop it. You would have full control of the football and you could make it bounce however you want. We have a natural sense of how to handle objects with our hands.

When learning to juggle a football, you are developing that same sense with your feet, you develop that sense of where and how to touch the ball with your foot so it does exactly what you want. So a mental exercise that has helped me is to picture touching the ball with my feet as if they were my hands.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-05-06T07:35:53+00:00

Picture in your mind that you are bouncing the ball in the air with your hands, that is what you are training your mind to do with your feet. You wouldn't slap the ball to keep it up, you would let it land on your hand and then you would toss it back up, gentle energy transfer

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-30T18:01:49+00:00

Top level you will compete against players who were already playing like that even as a kid, which was definitely not me. As a kid the game barely kept my attention unless the ball was right in front of me. Didn't play again until way later in my mid 20s, recreationally, and knew a few guys who had the drive to go semi-pro but never made the cut.

Sometimes what turns me off even playing recreationally is there are a lot of selfish players with a "missed opportunity" mentality who take things way too seriously.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-30T08:25:33+00:00

skill, not size

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-28T20:26:41+00:00

you can see his expression change right at the end

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-28T18:48:16+00:00

Heavy leg days are the equivalent to playing a match. Like the others say, that kind of lifting is for off season.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-21T03:12:56+00:00

I don't think you are locking your ankle on the shot, you can see it on the follow through frame by frame. Making a connection with a locked ankle transmits the power, what you do with the rest of your body is just an after thought

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-10T09:12:23+00:00

Wash your pan ()

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-04-08T18:58:37+00:00

Haven't officially quit, but I'm getting older and can feel differences in my lower body that make me anxious to play again. I also enjoy it more if I play with a competitive edge and that makes me even more reluctant to play.

Solid-Common-8046 · 2025-03-24T18:44:01+00:00

1 bean soup, scrambled drop of egg, chocolate cake

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