Fitness Requirements for Football

Fitness Requirements for Football

Football is a game that requires aerobic and anaerobic fitness.

Aerobic fitness is the most important quality in football, closely

followed by anaerobic fitness, running, speed and agility. Footballers

tend to cover less distance and work at lower intensities during the

second half of games then during the first half. This is because

fatigue limits a player. To sum it up if a player was fitter they

would perform more effectively. Therefore if a player was to improve

aerobic capacity then overall fitness would boost performance on the

football field.

Team sports like football make it even harder to determine what areas

of fitness are required. The types required will depend upon positions

and role in the team, but one key area is skill and specificity.

Football players should be football players first and athletes second.

This doesn't mean that their athletic areas of fitness, speed,

strength, stamina etc. are not important, because they are, but skill

and specificity and perhaps sprint are the most important.

Football players need a combination of aerobic and anaerobic fitness

due to the nature of the game and the fact that there is continuous

movement with lots of short bursts of more intense activity. Some

positions require higher levels of anaerobic fitness than others, some

require more aerobic fitness. A midfield player is required to cover a

lot of ground during a game and needs a good aerobic engine. A striker

on the other hand requires short bursts of repeated activity and

requires more speed and anaerobic fitness.

Interval training boosts the footballer's ability to play at high

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...u would obviously have started off by having

swimming lessons for you to know how to swim. Same with hockey and

football, you start off with practices where you learn new things week

in week out. Then you would participate in matches where you

demonstrate all these new findings.

Endurance, all sports use this whether it is muscular endurance or

cardiovascular endurance as muscles depend on endurance to move.

Describe the fitness requirements for three contrasting sports

In this assignment I am going to explain the health related fitness

components and describe the fitness requirements for three contrasting

sports of my choice. I will define the fitness requirements and then

compare the fitness requirements for the three contrasting sports.

The sports I have picked are:

Football

Swimming

Hockey