How to Do a Proper Youth Soccer Warm-Up

Series Summary

Youth sports are an amazing part of any student athlete's childhood and adolescence. Youth sports are great way for kids to socialize, make friends, learn how to be good team players, and learn how to lead as well. Sports are also an excellent way to keep kids in great shape and guard against childhood obesity. For all youth sports however, it is important that kids and teenagers train well before playing, in order to strengthen muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. Youth sports are a great way to keep kids out of trouble. In this free video series, learn about different youth sports like soccer and baseball. First, find out about proper youth soccer warm-up drills, soccer stretches, important skills required to play soccer and eating right for soccer games and tournaments. Discover the benefits of getting a kid acclimated to being part of team sports.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Jill Weiss, and I'm going to give you a few tips on how to do a proper youth soccer warm-up. First thing you want to do, is you want to keep the warm-up to about ten minutes, for younger children,fifteen to twenty minutes for athletes, and adults. You want to also incorporate all these soccer skills, including passing, dribbling, shooting. You want to make sure that especially before games, and things like that, that you are staying warm. You want to do ten, fifteen minutes warm-up, and of course, you want to incorporate the stretching afterwards. Make sure that the goalies are doing a separate warm-up, from everybody else. You want to have light and easy clothing, that you can put on and take off. That way, you can stay warm after the warm-up and pre-game kind of thing. Make sure that after your warm-up is over, so your muscles don't get cold, you want to at least keep stretching, things like that, and try not to let your players and athletes do competition with each other, before the game. It's just stay warm, keep your muscles warm, and stretch if you have to, and that's a little bit about the warm-up on youth soccer."