Training Plans

Gaelic Football: Pre Season Pitch Conditioning Program

5.0

Training Plan By Barry Solan

Strength & Conditioning

Details

2x/week

4 weeks

This pitch conditioning program is designed to increase your fitness levels and get you ready for the upcoming season. Progressing over 4 weeks, it will help develop your fitness level in an efficent, progressive manner, building training volumes, robustness, decrease risk of injury & have you highly prepared to begin team training. It is a 2x pitch conditioning training program which will include: - pre training preparation to improve your movement skills - pitch based dynamic warm up - introductory acceleration block - progressive conditioning drills to build up your training volumes in a progesssive manner, increasing both fitness & robustness.

Equipment

BodyWeight

Mini Bands

Skipping Rope

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.