New Soccer Drill to Improve Dribbling & Cardio

The exercise involves two parts. It will get your calves burning and make them stronger, it will force you to focus on your touch and it will work on your cardio. As you get tired your body starts to react slower so in this exercise really focus mentally on having a good touch. 

Equipment Needed: You will need a ball and 5-10 cones. 

Exercise Player Can Do:

To set up the exercise place out your cones in a line with space in between them so you can dribble through them. I like to place my foot in front of the cone and add a bit more space in front of my foot before I place the second cone down.

Once you have a cone line of 5-9 cones set up an end cone about 10 yards away. You be the judge of how many cones you want to dribble through.

First Part of this Exercise: Do inside to outside touches for 30 seconds on each foot; 1 minute total. Try not to move forward or backward, stay on the same imaginary line. 

Second Part: After one minute of inside to outside touches go straight into your cone dribbling. Do two reps all right footed dribbling, two reps all left foot dribbling. 

Take your time and get through the cones right. As you feel more conformable increase your speed going through the cones. Make sure when you get out, you take a bigger touch, explode to the end cone and get your eyes up to see the field. It's a hard acceleration to the top cone and then a light, light jog back. This is your recovery run.

That's one set. Immediately get into a 2nd set. Do 3 sets total and then rest. 

Now lets do the exercise!

I like this exercise because it works on the fundamentals. Dribbling, ball control and 1st touch are so important no matter what position you play. This is a great exercise to incorporate into the early part of your training sessions regularly. 

What Player Could Be Doing Wrong:

Now for some things that could be going wrong. If you are taking your touch to far between the cones then you are taking to big of a touch, take a smaller touch. 

If you are constantly hitting the cones then they are to close together. Spread your cones out more, make it easier in the beginning and get it right before you make it more challenging. 

Bonus Tip!

Tighten the space between the cones for increase difficulty. Obviously have enough room for the ball and your foot to get between the cones when your dribbling! 

Go out and have a great session!

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