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Repeated explosive effort capacity

Develop the ability to repeat explosive actions with incomplete recovery — the profile research describes for goalkeepers, who perform few actions but all at maximum.

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Load

minutes
10
dives/set
10
Sets and reps
4 × 6
Intensity
High

dives per set, per goalkeeper

Microcycle days it fits

MD+1, MD-4

Each bar’s height is that day’s dive ceiling.

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
1
outfield player
0

Space: 14 × 10 m

Equipment: Balls, Cones, Full goal

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

2 steps

Sets of lateral movement followed by a dive, with a controlled work-to-rest ratio. Unlike a technical drill, the variable manipulated here is the rest, not the task.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • The quality of each individual action is the criterion — this is not endurance work with a ball.
  • At a 1:1 ratio, fatigue arrives around the fourth rep: that is when the exercise starts to count.
  • If diving technique degrades, stop the set. Training bad movement under fatigue teaches bad movement.
  • High dive volume: this exercise alone can consume half an MD-4 day’s ceiling.

Progressions

  1. Tighten the ratio to 1:1, accumulating fatigue between reps.
  2. Add a jump and landing before the dive.

Regressions

  1. Widen the ratio to 1:4, with full recovery.
  2. Remove the preceding movement, leaving only the dive.

Sources · 3

  1. StudyThe physical demands of professional soccer goalkeepers throughout a week-long competitive microcycle and transiently throughout match-play (2020)
  2. StudyThe match-play and performance test responses of soccer goalkeepers: a review
  3. StudyData-driven strength and conditioning, and technical training programs for goalkeeper’s diving save in football (2022)