30 April 2010

Week Two point seven - Nike Football+

All I can say is WOW. This is a free app, and sure it sort of advertises Nike, but it is a great resource for soccer/football coaches.

It includes training plans for various skills, other plans that you can use the iPad to time the players as they perform the routines, and it tracks how the players are doing against themselves and each other.

You can create your own training plans from a selection of exercises, which include diagrams and videos. The videos include alternate angles, slow mo, and diagrams overlaid on the videos. And Nike are adding to it every couple of weeks.

It's the best stuff I have seen for an amateur football coach. Apparently this has been out there for about 18 months, but to begin with the content wasn't really there. It's there now, believe me, at least forty or fifty exercises. I am not sure what other platforms it runs on, but on an iPad it works well. Just wish I could print some things out rather than have to risk the iPad in the rain.

This application could be used in conjunction with iCoach. It is more training focused than game day oriented, which iCoach handles reasonably well.

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