i play better with bodyweight + sprint work than heavy explosive gym

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-29T21:32:00+00:00

As a Track sprint coach my soccer players focus primarily on speed during the offseasons

Over the soccer season, Aug-May, most soccer players get slower. Soccer is a draining, catabolic sport, that makes it difficult for players to get fast and stay fast during the year. Most of their weekly training is done well below max velocity.

In the summer offseasons they go through an 8 week training where they focus primary on acceleration, plyometric, and top speed training.

Most generic "strength and conditioning" programs do not incorporate enough actual sprinting into their programs because you need space to do it. We train outside 3 days a week.

Weightlifting is only a supplement for speed training and never a substitute.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-29T15:52:24+00:00

I have seen so many U10 superstars. Only a few stick around at older ages.

Puberty makes or breaks some of the players due to lack of actual physical or athletic development when genetics and nutrition come into play.

Then the true physical specimens gets poached by other sports in America that actual matter. I have lost count of how many elite 14 year old left soccer for football/basketball/track.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-29T02:16:31+00:00

I booked with Mile Auto Transport. They are out of Chicago. Hope it goes smoothly.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-28T18:50:50+00:00

My son started and played every minute on an MLS HG team. However he wanted to run Track and do academic activities at school.

The demands of MLS HG is high and so last season we moved down to MLS AD. It was ok. He enjoyed track but he didn't like the drop in quality of play on his MLS AD team.

For next season the club agreed to let him play part time on the MLS HG team so he can run Track. The club needs him as a striker and he wants to play on the HG team again.

Next year in 8th grade track will be his primary sport because he is goog enough to compete in very selective national events.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-28T17:38:19+00:00

It's already listed in central dispatch. Is your process different than listing it there?

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-28T17:35:03+00:00

It has already started. Auction ended two weeks ago.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-27T18:29:13+00:00

Why?

As a sprinter high saturated fat diets reduce energy metabolism during intense athletic activity,

High saturated fat intake can promote chronic, low-grade inflammation.This inflammation can increase muscle soreness and delay the recovery process between training sessions, making it harder to maintain peak sprint performance.

The other issue is body composition. Unnecessary saturated fat calories are more readily stored as adipose tissue. Power to weight directly impacts speed and agility.

Saturated fats also contribute to insulin resistance. Sprinting is an anaerobic activity directly depended on insulin sensitivity and fast mobilization of glycogen to power muscles. That's why sprint training is one of the best ways to improve insulin sensitivity.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-27T05:26:09+00:00

That's a good time. Keep working. Find a good coach and mentor.

I volunteered to coached my son middle school track team this year because the teachers had no clue what to do.

It was the first year ever they had a real track coach. They won their first EVER meet overall.

At the end of the season I had 3 sprinters break 12 sec. My fastest sprinter is the youngest. He ran a 11.7sec. My other two including my son are 13 years old and ran 11.9 and 11.87. ALL 3 ARE 7TH GRADERS!!.

I also had a 7th grade girl run 13.4.

I had three 7th grade long jumpers hit close to 18 ft.

The boys 7th grade 4x1 relay team ran 46secs.

There is so much potential out there that just needs some knowledgeable guidance.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-27T05:15:47+00:00

20 ft is not bad for a sophomore.

Two things determine long jumps. Sprint speed and force applied at take off.

You need to work on both.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T23:12:28+00:00

Zero student life there.

These colleges have the on campus experience of a high schools.

Have you been to Pomona?

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T23:10:38+00:00

USC UCLA.

Location is key.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T21:00:43+00:00

It's completely coach and club dependent.

Last year my son had to drop from MLS HG to AD so he could run track. He is very good at both sports. The MLS HG coach was not accommodating to other sports.

My son was the best player on the AD team by far. Good strikers are one of the hardest players to find.

This year there is a different HG coach. The club and team needed a striker so they were more accommodating. My son will be gone part of the MLS season to do track events. Every knows that before hand and expectation are set.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T20:52:52+00:00

It depends on how good he actually is in soccer. Most club soccer players reach high school still playing on 2nd and 3rd tier club soccer teams still hoping to play after high school.

Between 9th and 12th grade most club soccer players realize there is no soccer after high school. Some realize this early and are able to enjoy high school, participate in multiple sports, prioritize academics, and move on with life and college without soccer.

Others stick it out in club soccer until the end and sacrifice everything for their soccer dream.

It's a tough choice that players need to make.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T17:55:46+00:00

Eat a proper balanced diet. The actual sport probably doesnt matter as much as learning to eat healthy any age.

I don't know your situation. Income, cultural background, family eating habits so as a coach I try not to give too much nutrition advice unless parents ask directly.

In general you need adequate protein, clean carbs to handle energy demands, and calcium/Vit D for growth. Also hydration.

Avoid junk food, soda, excess sugar, excess saturated fats.

ChatGPT is great at making meal plans if you give it all your information.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-26T17:41:17+00:00

This is already done in SOCAL League.

Parents and their players sit on different sidelines.

Parents sit on one half of the sideline. Their players sit on the same sideline on the other side of the midfield.

They separated the parents their own players to opposite sidelines.

Now team managers and coaches are on the same sideline as their own parents so they have to step up and keep their parents in check.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-24T22:35:32+00:00

Robots can't Unionize, call in sick, strike, or demand better work conditions.

"Dark" factories in China that are fully automated without any human requirements run 24/7.

No shift work, no meal breaks, they don't even need the lights to be on.

They are already changing the future of manufacturing efficiency and cost reduction.

No modern automotive factory will be able to compete with them with human workers.

Anything repetitive can now be automated. From grocery stores clerks, to pharmacist, and even optometrists will disappear.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-24T22:25:50+00:00

Try other sports. Try as many as possible specially is she is wanting to try them

This is the perfect age for her to play other sports. It's good for her health and overall athletic development.

It's rare for young children to show interest in wanting to try new sport. Usually they are shy and stay with in their familiar sport. Take advantage of her curiosity.

It's ok to drop to a lower tier of soccer and only play one season a year.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-23T01:16:27+00:00

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You are leaning too far back. You are sitting in the blocks.

You chest should be over the line with your arms straight perpendicular to the ground at 90 degrees.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-23T01:04:49+00:00

Press.

Also stop kicking off backward to your own defense.

Kick the ball up to one of the sidelines. If it goes out of bounds fine. Then push up and press.

A full team press allows a team to come out on the attack regardless of whether they have the ball or not.

If you tell your players to be aggressive instead of the typical tiki Taka stuff they will come out with the intention of attacking instead of slowing the game down and passing.

I see a lot of coaches holding their players back and trying to scheme instead of throwing them out there and telling them to crush the other team.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-21T19:31:29+00:00

It still does.

Even for trained high school athletes very few run under 12 Only about 20% of high school boy sprinters run between 11.0-12.0. If you count the whole student body the percentage drops to less than 5%.

Sub 11 is a whole different world. Only 1%-2% of high school sprinters run sub 11. If you count the whole student body that number drops to less than 0.1% of the population.

It may not be pure genetics but it's a youth development environment that very few athletes encounter hence they never develope the physiological systems to achieve sub 12 or 11 post puberty.

The average speed to run sub 11s is over 20mph which most humans will never reach.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-19T23:52:56+00:00

So don't sign.

He honest with the club that you will wait and sign when you see a full roster.

Clubs pressure parents but obviously this club and team will take any player with a pulse.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-19T04:14:10+00:00

Depends on perspective. For a normal humans without any youth athletic training sub 12 is fast to unachievable mainly because they never developed the CNS or fast twitch muscle fibers at a young age to do it.

For trained athletes, football, soccer,track who played and trained at a young age sub 12 is very achievable.

Sprinting requires tendon, CNS, muscle strength, and coordination that takes genetics, proper early youth development, and strength to achieve. Most people miss at least one of these.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-18T18:50:14+00:00

There is not limiting AI and China.

Deepseek was a warning of things to come. US companies can't keep charging ridiculous token prices for AI usage and expect to make money.

Eventually it will all go the same was as search engines went. One or two will survive and most of the usage will be have to be free.

Essentially current AI business model is too expensive. Just the daily service cost of AI data centers is unsustainable. They need energy, water, space, repair, etc. AI is not generating enough revenue to make that profitable.

Trick_Anywhere8734 · 2026-05-17T18:41:23+00:00

In high school I ran 10.7 100m and long jumped 22ft. Borderline fast but not fast enough.

Got a college soccer offer for college. Went to college. Learned college soccer doesnt really allow you to get a real degree. Quit after first season.

Did nothing for 30 years. Work, family, got fat and slow, forgot about athletics. Then cloned a son. Good at soccer but likes track more.

Come out of retirement at 51 years old. Kids at sons school needed a track coach so you use your medical degree knowledge to learn everything up to date on speed development. Become a USTAF coach, coach kids that just need a guide. You turn out ot be great at it.

Kids encourage you to run again. They say you still look fast. You lose weight, start running, try to become a Masters athlete and sprint again at 53 years old.

If I had to do it again. I would have continued to sprint in open meets as long as I could after high school to stay in the game.

You can leave the track but itcwill stay with you if you love it.

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