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These articles are on the DecaturSports.com website:

• ODP Conditioning Program
• Soccer Conditioning Drills
• Soccer Assessment of Physical Fitness
• UNC Summer Soccer Conditioning Program - Acrobat pdf
• U.S. Soccer Assessment of Physical Fitness
• The Box of Death Conditioning Exercise
• Exercise of the Day - Sprints with Footwork
• Exercise of the Day - Zigzag Speed Work
• 10 Things Coaches Can Do To Help Prevent Eating Disorders in Their Athletes
• Speed Training - notes from the 1995 NSCAA Convention
• What Should Be Included in A Soccer First Aid Medical Kit?
• North Carolina's Triangle Passing Drill - Long Ball Service and Reception
• Two-Man Stretching
• Soccer Conditioning Warm-up/Stability, Straight Ahead Running by Ken Kontor
• Soccer Conditioning - Lateral Speed by Steve Mynard
• Soccer Conditioning - Integrating Power Training in Normal Practice by Vern Gambetta
• Parents' and Coaches' Guide To Dehydration and other Heat Related Illness in Children - from the National Athletic Trainers' Association
• Coach McCarthey's Summer Conditioning Program
• Four Nutrition Myths Among Soccer Players By Donald T Kirkendall
• Boxers vs Briefs
• Hydration Facts - Got Water?
• Practice Tip - Returning to Play from Injury
• Clinical Accuracy in Passing and Conditioning (.PDF)
• Water Training
• Weight Lifting For Young Athletes
• The Ideal State - Learning to Play at Your Peak - by Jason Vittrup
• Balance by Lawrence Fine

• Fitness and Touches on the Ball - A 12 Minute Exercise

• U10 Foot Coordination and Speed - Coaches Connection Lesson Plan (.PDF)
• Warm-up Game - Dribbling, Turning & Fitness by Lawrence Fine
• Off-Season Conditioning by FineSoccer.com
• Game Day Nutrition from the Coaches Connection Newsletter
• Complete Summer Workout - pdf
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These articles are on other websites:

• Cardiovascular Conditioning

• Goalkeeping Fitness

• Warm-Up
• Multi Directional Sprints for Soccer Conditioning
• Post Game Recovery
• Beginning Plyometrics
• Agility Ladder Basics
• Core Training Basics
• Turning the Warm-up into a workout
• Fitness Testing
• Fitness Testing
• Training tips with Sasha Victorine
• Cross-Training: Giving Yourself a Whole-Body Workout
• Heat Acclimatization
• Girl's Protective Undergarments
• Biomechanics
• Strength: Use It or Lose It.
• Sports Participation
• Can Running Properly Improve Speed and Reduce Injuries?
• Say No to Steroids
• Improve Your Flexibility
• Body weight Circuit: drills to make you quicker and more agile
  By Tom Phillips
• Starting the Climb on the Soccer Conditioning Pyramid to Athletic Success? By Tom Phillips
• Prevention and care of sport injuries By Richard Stratton
• Motivation is More than a Question of Winning and Losing by Darren C. Treasure, Ph.D. 
• Stress in Youth Sports by Richard K. Stratton Ph.D.
• Ankle injuries can be more than they appear By Steve Bender
• Evaluate your Drills By Steve Bender  NEW 10/2000
• Home Work? (Yes, Home Work) By Alan Maher NEW

• Plyometrics, Increase speed and Strength By Dan Minutilloa

• Body weight Circuit: drills to make you quicker and more agile
  By Tom Phillips NEW 10/2000

• Aspects of a front-runner
• Conditioning Secrets for High School Players and Coaches
• Aerobic conditioning tips
• Eight Steps to a Better Tryout Performance
• Enduring the 'dog days' of summer
• Flank Midfielders: 120-Yard Responsibility
• Importance of upper body strength
• Innovative Strengthening Ideas
• More Slide Tackling Tips
• Training tips with Sasha Victorine
• Turning Tips
• Your Training Tips
• Beep Test
• Proprioception Training
• NSCAA Clinic Reports 1998
• Vern Gambetta: Improving Footwork
• Fitness Activities During the Season
• Five Dot Training
• Beep Test 
• Proprioception Training 
• Vern Gambetta: Improving Footwork 
• Training to Improve Vertical Jumping Ability
• Weightlifting & Vertical Jumping
• Alpha Fitness Test 
• Work: Rest
• Conditioning Drills
• Effect of a 2 versus 3 times per week weight training program in boys aged 7 to 16.
• The effects of strength training and detraining on children.
• Growth, puberty & Exercise
• John Moores Football and Science website
• Yo-Yo Shuttle Run Tests
• The effectiveness of resistance training in children
• Knee Pain in Adolescent Athletes
• Stretching and Flexibility
• The Cooper Test
• Resistance Training
• Aerobic response to endurance training in children.
• Training Effects in Boys (Age 11-13)
• Index of Articles about Fitness and The Young Athlete
• NorthEast Strength And Fitness Training - The place for all fitness and sports training on the internet