Soccer Juggling as excerise

You probably need to juggle a little longer than that to get any benefit. It takes me like 10 minutes to juggle 1000 and it doesn't really tire my calves at all. If I go a real long time my hip flexors get tired. It does help loosen my legs a lot though so I say it might be beneficial to keep it up.[quote]The bear is out for lunch wrote:

1000 in a ROW?!

shit, i thought my PR of 85 was good

i thought my pr of 79 was bomb.

It's a workout until you get decent. After a while it becomes too easy because your control gets really good and you won't be moving at all.

I suggest you juggle a soccer ball while jumping rope if you're trying to kill two birds with one stone.

It is kind of boring too. I was thinking of doing while walking down the street but you would look like a dick.

My goals are modest:

5:10 mile

2100 Juggles

I don't know if this activity will strenghten my knees.

How you noticed great jugglers aren't always the great soccer players. I was a good juggler but an average college player.

My buddy was a terrible juggler with not the best touch, yet played every minute of every game his senior year at a top ten D1 program

The bear is out for lunch wrote:

It is kind of boring too. I was thinking of doing while walking down the street but you would look like a dick.

My goals are modest:

5:10 mile

2100 Juggles

I don't know if this activity will strenghten my knees.

How you noticed great jugglers aren't always the great soccer players. I was a good juggler but an average college player.

Juggling is a good way to develop good soccer skills but it is definitely not a good workout. If you want to improve your footskills and get a workout I would dribble instead of juggling.

And I don't know how a top player at a top D1 program could not be able to juggle well. Defenders sometimes don't have great footskills but they have to at least have decent ones and juggling ability and footskills correlate closely. Even on my club team, which was one of the top teams in Illinois, everybody was at least competent juggling. I go to Notre Dame and have a friend on a team and he always talks about the juggling drills they do and has said that even the keeper can do them all.

try running, it really helps

Check out this video of these skillful players. They among the best in the world. What they do with the ball in this 5 on 5 game is almost unbelievable.

It almost seems their foot is glued to the ball.

Man oh man I miss playing soccer sometimes. I've seen a couple of my friends who are in college play and do all similar moves. Cool to see such control over the ball.

I'm more impressed with pretty passes myself, nice setups/assists.

I was just wondering how long it took to learn to juggle to 200 and have pretty good ball control if u practice an hour a day?

Took me 3 days to progress from 40-50 touches to 200 touches, and then about a 2 weeks more to get to where I could go for 1,000-2,000 without too much effort. This was after about 2-3 years away from the sport, but with 12 years of competitive soccer experience under my belt. I have always had decent foot skills, but juggling for duration and number of touches is definitely related to the endurance capabilities of the motor system involved. You can have amazing foot coordination, but if you have never put in the time to practice enduring the mental and fine motor fatigue in those control muscles, you will eventually punt one away because you misfired a hip flexor or something. Also, once you get into the thousands, you are limited in how many attempts you can make at a record due to fatigue.

Also, don't practice in an area where attractive women readily walk by.

1000 touches in 600 seconds. LOL

I am thy buttplug wrote:

1000 touches in 600 seconds. LOL

That seems about right to me. Always took me about 10-15 minutes depending on how frisky I felt.

Ywa but i'm just starting out so far my highest is 15 sad i know but i've only been really practicing for about 4-5 days so then how long will it take? if i practice an hour a day and go from about an average of 8 to 200?

watch those guys who juggle a lot and tell me it isn't a good exercise lol

"Juggle well" is pretty subjective. I'm sure he'd be able to juggle for a minute or so, but if we're talking about doing 1,000 in a row, I'd bet half the players in the premier league would struggle to do that. At the top level, depending on your position, being able to put the right weight on a pass is way more important than juggling, and the two don't necessarily correlate.

encharito wrote:

try running, it really helps

God bless you.