Training Plans

Gaelic Football: Pre Season Performance Program

4.0

Training Plan By Barry Solan

Strength & Conditioning

Details

3x/week

4 weeks

This program is designed to get you ready for the upcoming season and have you highly prepared for your return to team training. It will support your on pitch perofrmance by developing your movement skills, building functional strength, reducing risk of injury while increasing lean mass, work capacity & robustness. This program contains 3 seprate sessions: - Lower Body - Total Body - Upper Body Initially with a focus on building your Movement Efficency & Functional Strength, this program will build in volume across a 4 week phase leaving you well prepared for the demands of the upcoming season. If completing this program in tandem with team/sport training: - Lower Body Sessions should be followed by a recovery day. - Total body sessions should be followed by a recovery day. - Upper Body sessions can be completed on the days before/after/between team training.

Equipment

Kettlebells

Sled

Suspension Trainer

Skipping Rope

Pull Up Bar

Dumbbells

BodyWeight

Flat Bench

Sliders

Adjustable Pulley

Barry Solan

4.5

About

Strength & Conditioning Coach

Barry Solan is currently the Lead 1st Team S&C Coach at Arsenal FC. Prior to this, Barry has worked extensively with athletes & teams at amateur, professional & international level in Ireland, The UK, Europe & at EXOS in the US. These coaching roles have encompassed a wide varitety of both team settings including the Poland National Football Team, Mayo GAA, Arsenal FC & individually with gold medal winning & world champion boxer Katie Taylor & Golfer Shane Lowry. Barry has a major interest in developing training programs that fit the athletes needs in tandem with preparing both athletes & teams individually & collectively to perform in their sport with a consistently high output. Barry holds an honours degree in Sport Science from St Marys University, London & MSc in S&C and Exercise Science from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He is further certified through numerous professional bodies.