Training Plans

Gaelic Football: Pre-Season Strength & Power Program

5.0

Training Plan By Barry Solan

Strength & Conditioning

Details

3x/week

8 weeks

This program is designed to get you ready for the upcoming season and have you highly prepared for team training & competition. 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 the first 4 week phase & then bleed into a second 4 week phase focusing on Strength & Power. If completing this program in tandem with team/sport training: - Lower Body Sessions should be followed by a recovery day. - Ideally 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

Dumbbells

Adjustable Pulley

Flat Bench

BodyWeight

Pull Up Bar

Medicine Balls

Kettlebells

Suspension Trainer

Mini Hurdles

Sliders

Mini Bands

Barbell

Sled

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.