Spend 10 days with Dr. John Cone to level up as a coach. Each class is condensed down to the most important 10-15 minutes on each topic so you get the most out of your time. We'll help you develop the next generation of players. Reserve your seat
If you're looking to win more games and keep your players on the field this course is for you. Learn how to optimize your players performance, development, & injury resistance. Most importantly we'll help you to put this into action when you step out onto the field.
"From the youth to professional player John is able to link the game and science to help coaches at every level improve player performance and development."
"John is one of the country's leading soccer-specific sports scientists. His experiences at the highest levels as a coach and a sports scientist make him an unparalleled resource for coaches."
"The education myself and my staff have received by working with John has helped us better manage and develop our players, and has given me a much more detailed and comprehensive understanding of fitness in soccer."
"Through John's work on the academy director course I have reached a new level of understanding of periodization. The knowledge I have gained has empowered me as a coach, and my players have benefited massively"
You don't just train to train. You train to get better!
Do you know how long it takes your players to recover and adapt from the game? How about a Fitness session, Threshold session or Maintenance session?
How hard can you train today?
We'll start by helping you get the training load of your sessions right. How can you plan the ideal training load for your players based on their age and your team's schedule. You'll learn about the 7 different training session types you need to use as a coach throughout your season.
Warm-up
John has spent years refining the warm-up. For the 1st time we’re sharing a 2-part system to help you run the ideal warm-up for your players:
1) Do you need a shorter, sharper intensive or a longer extensive warm-up?
2) Set ups for the most common training objectives to get more out of your 1st exercise
Prepare your players for the most explosive moments of the game
Train your players to improve their speed, agility, & quickness. You'll learn how to incorporate what we call foundational movement development to improve your players athleticism and injury resistance.
Maximal speed
Give your players the edge in goal scoring situations. Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal scoring situations and we'll show you how to train for soccer-specific maximal speed. You'll get age-specific distances, work to rest ratios, sets and reps.
Repeated Sprint Ability
Can your players perform repeated sprints in quick succession when the game calls for it? We’ll show you how to train for repeated sprint ability and take the guesswork out of it for you.
Technical & Tactical
We’ve all seen hundreds of exercises shared on social media, but how often do they include age-specific work and rest durations? You'll get a set of criteria you can use to improve your technical and tactical training exercises so they replicate the game environment.
Fitness: Games for Physical Development
Do you know how long to play 3v3 or 4v4 for your U14 team vs your U16s or at the college level?
Are your rest intervals correct during your 7v7 game or your 11v11 game?
You’ll get a simple, but powerful 4-step action plan to accelerate the demands of the game during training along with age-specific work, rest, reps, and sets for each game size to increase your players' fitness
Pre-Season
What you do in pre-season can determine your team's success the rest of the season.
We’ll give you a step by step guide to plan out your pre-season including:
- Peak load and game size for each week during pre-season
- Maximum match minutes and progression for each exhibition
Tournaments
Our goal is to help your team perform both during the tournament & have time to adapt after the tournament to increase your team’s success the rest of the season.
It’s critical that you adjust as a coach. We'll teach you how to:
- Taper before the tournament
- Rebuild after the tournament
Dr. John Cone is the co-founder and CEO of Fit For 90. He has extensive experience as a sports scientist, coach, and educator that gives him the unique ability to bridge the worlds of science and sport. John holds his USSF A license, is a certified strength and conditioning coach (CSCS), and the only American holder of the esteemed FA Fitness Trainers’ Award (2004).
John is a leading expert in soccer-specific sports science, player development, injury prevention and return to play from injury. He is the founder and CEO of Fit For 90 and has delivered over 200 seasons of periodization to pro, college and youth teams.
Beyond Fit For 90, John is the lead sports science educator for USSF where he has driven the integration of sports science since 2013. John is the former Director of Sports Science for the Portland Timbers and was previously Assistant Coach for Sporting KC. He has experience working at every level of the game, as both a coach and sports scientist. In addition to these prominent roles, John is a regular speaker and educator in managing return to play from injury at athletic training conferences, adjunct faculty researcher, and graduate school lecturer.