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strength & conditioning 
Futsal specific 
Alan Sinovi 
Strength and conditioning coach 
Futsal club Alumnus Zagreb
Who am I? 
- Bachelors degree at Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb 
- Strength and conditioning specialist 
- Worked as a fitness coach in footbal, futsal, basketball and 
handball clubs 
Major trophies: 
- Croatian champion with 
Footbal club Zadar, boys 
U-15 (season 2012/13 
- Croatian champion with 
futsal club Alumnus, 
season 2013/14
Some key facts about futsal: 
 Analysis of movement demands has shown that 
locomotor activities in futsal match changing every 
3.28 seconds 
 One study reported 8.6 activities per minute of play 
with a high-intensity effort every 23 seconds 
 Futsal players at high competetive level cover 121 
(105137) meters per minute 
 Aerobic capacity (Vo2max) of professional futsal 
players is 58-65 ml/kg/min
Futsal Strength and conditioning
Futsal Strength and conditioning
Futsal Strength and conditioning
What all this means? 
It means that futsal player at 
high competetive level must 
have very well developed all 
important conditioning 
segments: speed, agility, 
quickness, aerobic and 
anaerobic capacities, 
coordination, balance and 
strength
Base training hierarchy
Important segments of strength & conditioning in futsal 
1. Work capacity 
2. Individual aproach 
3. Evaluation/testing 
4. Core training 
5. Vo2max development 
6. Tactical metabolic training 
7. Speed, agility and quickness 
8. Injury prevention 
9. Balance 
10. Periodization 
11. Nutrition & suplementation
1. Work capacity 
Work capacity definition by Vern 
Gambetta: 
- The ability to tolerate a high 
workload 
- The ability to recover from 
the workload sufficiently for 
the next training session or 
competition 
- The ability to resist fatigue
Why work capacity is so important? 
1. Necessary for enduring the length of each training session 
2. Prepares the athlete for more stressful training sessions and cycles 
3. Enables quick recovery between training sessions
2. Individual approach 
Each futsal team is a group of different people, with different 
capacities, skills and different weakest links. So, when you work with a 
team, you must consider your team as a group of individuals. 
For example, if you are working on 
raising the level of aerobic capacity 
with all players following the same 
program, you can expect one of the 
things: 
1. Your fittest players will raise 
their fitness level, but the least 
fittest players will overtrain 
2. Least fittest players will improve, 
but fittest players will stagnate
Individual approach 
What to do? 
- Break players into two or three smaller 
groups, depending of their abilities and 
your resources 
- Designing different programs, e.g. one 
program is for players who must work on 
agility, second program is for those who 
lacks in glycolityc endurance...
3. Testing/evaluation 
Standing broad jump 
Sprint 5, 10, 20 meters
Testing/evaluation 
4x5 meters agility 
300 yard shuttle test
Testing/evaluation 
Beep test 
Yo-Yo Intermittent Test (or Yo-Yo Intermittent Endurance Test)
Testing/evaluation 
FIET - futsal intermittent endurance test 
- developed by Jose Carlos Barbero Alvarez et. al. 
- test for specific futsal endurance
Testing/evaluation 
- players run shuttle-running bouts of 3x15 m (45m) 
dictated by audio signals 
- after each 45 meters players are allowed to rest for 10 
seconds 
- after each 8x45m, players passively rest for 30 seconds 
before continuing 
- starting speed is 9 km/h, speed increments is 0.33 km/h 
for first 9 bouts, shifting to 0.20 km/h from 10th bout 
every 45m until exhausting 
-The test ends when player do not reach the front line in 
time with beeps for 2 succesive times
4. Core training 
-The core plays an important role in 
transferring forces from one end of the 
body to the other 
- Core strength has a significant effect 
on an athletes ability to develop and 
transfer forces to the limbs 
- If a player has a weak core, hell be 
limited in ability to maximize his 
running and shooting 
- Proper core stability allows an athlete 
to accelerate, decelerate, change 
directions and quickly adjust to 
spontaneous loading changes
Core training 
Core training is often neglected, underrated od misunderstood 
- Hundreds of crunches  totaly wrong 
- Hours in plank position  far from enough for quality core 
- Core is the most important link in kinetic chain! 
THE CORE: 
- the spine 
- hips and pelvis 
- lower limp 
- abdominal structures 
MOVEMENTS: 
1. Multiplanar 
2. Functional 
3. Preferably in 
standing position
Core training 
The core can produce, reduce, and resist: 
 spinal flexion (saggital plane) 
 extension (saggital plane) 
 lateral flexion (frontal plane) 
 rotation (transverse plane)
Core training 
Sample exercises:
5. Vo2max development 
- VO2max: individual's maximal aerobic capacity 
- It refers to the maximum amount of oxygen that an individual 
can utilize during intense or maximal exercise 
-It is generally considered the best indicator of cardiorespiratory 
endurance and aerobic fitness 
- Vo2max is highly correlated with repeated sprint ability and 
recovery rate 
- VO2max values of or above 60 mL/kg/min are advisable to play 
futsal at the professional level (Jose Carlos Barbero-Alvarez)
Vo2max development 
M 
E 
T 
H 
O 
D 
S 
1. Billlat protocol 
15/15 or 30/30 interval training: run 15 od 30 seconds 
at 90% of HRmax) followed by 15 or 30 seconds 
running at 70% of intensity. 12-20 reps in training, 
once or twice a week 
2. 4x4 interval training 
4 intervals of 4 minutes of high intensity exercise at 
90% of HRmax followed with 3 minutes of active 
recovery at 70% HRmax 
3. small-sided games 
Various games where players 
must almost constantly be in 
the zone of vo2max (intensity 
cca. 90% HRmax)
6. Tactical metabolic training 
The tactical metabolic training approach to conditioning is an 
extension of the high intensity intervals and repeated sprint 
conditioning approaches. The keys to tactical modeling are 
parameters from competetive matches (work/rest ratio from 
competetive matches). 
This is favourable from a coaching viewpoint as it allows technical 
and tactical elements to be executed in simulated game conditions 
(Plisk and Gambetta)
6. Speed, agility and quickness 
SAQ  Most popular method in the conditioning of athletes 
SPEED - rapidity of movement 
AGILITY - rapid whole body movement with change of velocity or 
direction in response to a stimulus 
QUICKNESS - the ability to read and react to a situation; it is a 
multidirectional skill that combines explosiveness, reactiveness, and 
acceleration 
SAQ is based on the stretch-shortening 
SAQ is based on the stretch-shortening 
cycle (SSC). SSC is 
cycle (SSC). SSC 
a eccentric contraction 
followed by an immediate 
concentric contraction 
is a eccentric contraction 
followed by an immediate 
concentric contraction
Speed, agility and quickness 
BENEFITS OF SPEED, AGILITY AND QUICKNESS 
TRAINING: 
 faster footwork 
 improved dynamic balance 
 improved movement 
 shortening of reaction time 
 preventing injuries
Speed, agility and quickness 
Framework of Speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) program: 
1. Dynamic flexibility 
Dynamic flexibility increase muscular flexibility through the 
neuromuscular system and reduce injury via decreasing 
reflexive muscle contractions 
2. Mechanics of movement (running technique) 
Hurdle drills; Knee-lifts, dead leg, multiple hops, sidesteps, forward 
and lateral jumps... 
3. Innervation 
Ladder drills; various linear and lateral exercises 
4. Accumulation of potential 
This phase brings together the areas of work already practiced. 
Short and very explosive drills, and the emphasis is on quality. 
Combination runs. 
5. Explosion 
Short speed bursts, resistance running, contrast training 
6. Expression of potential 
Sixth phase brings together all the elements of the SAQ 
programme into highly competitive situations
7. Injury prevention
Injury prevention 
1. Quality warm-up 
Prepares muscles, ligaments and tendons for trainings and matches 
2. Proprioception 
It refers to the body's ability to sense movement within joints and joint 
position 
3. Good technique & skills 
Player with good skils and technique will be less 
prone to injuries 
4. Eccentric muscle contractions 
eccentric strengthening have big preventive effect 
5. Strengthening 
Stronger muscles, ligaments and tendons are less 
injury prone 
6. Work on stability and mobility 
Joint by joint approach  best secret for 
injury prevention
8. Balance 
Balance is the single most important component of athletic 
ability because it underlies all movement (Vern Gambetta) 
- Our goal must be to 
develop balance in motion 
- it is impossible to quality 
reduce and produce force 
without balance 
- if the balance is lost, it 
leads to inefficient 
movement and wasted 
energy 
- exercises: 90 degree 
jumps, leaning tower, 
hurdle walk...
9. Periodization 
Periodization is the systematic planning of training. The 
aim is to reach the best possible performance in the 
most important competition of the year
periodization 
GENERAL PREPARATION PERIOD 6  8 weeks 
First two-three weeks: general preparation with 60-70% 
strength and conditioning programs (testing, prevention, 
proprioception, aerobic and muscular endurance, general 
strength), 30-40% futsal technique and tactics 
Third to fourth or fifth week: futsal specific strength and 
conditioning, 50% of conditioning programmes and 50% od 
technical and tactical preparation 
Last two to three weeks: emphasis on technical and tactical 
programmes (70-80%), conditioning programmes are strictly 
specific (SAQ programmes, small-sided games...)
10. Nutrition and supplements 
Dont underestimate power of quality nutrition! 
1. Dont eat simple carbs 
and sugars 
2. After training first replace 
fluids (water or isotonic 
drinks) 
3. Eat lots of fish, eventually 
add some quality omega- 
3 supplement 
4. Include healthy fats(olive 
oil, nuts, seeds...) 
5. Never miss your meal 
6. Avoid fried foods 
7. Dont trust everything 
you hear from 
supplements industry
Important things to know 
1.Train movements, not muscles 
2.In every training session create an 
challenging environment 
3.Involve as many speed sessions as 
possible 
4.Stress core before extremities 
5.Dont involve single-joint 
movements 
6.Folow the right progression
REFERENCES: 
1. Gambetta, Vern: Gambetta Method, a Common sense guide 
to functional training for athletic performance 
2. Castagna, C., Barbero Alvarez, J. C.: Physiological demands of 
an intermittent Futsal-oriented high-intensity test 
3. Barbero Alvarez, J.C., et. al.: Match demands of professional 
Futsal: a case study 
4. Barbero Alvarez, J. C. et. al.: Match analysis and heart rate of 
futsal players during competition 
5. Fitzgibbon, Shane; Getting to the core: 
http://irelandstrengthandconditioning.wordpress.com/2013/ 
09/27/getting-to-the-core-what-is-core-training-anyway/ 
6. Kelso, Tom: Core Strength and the Athlete: Keeping It in 
Perspective 
7. Junge A, Dvorak J: Injury risk of playing football in Futsal 
World Cups 
8. Rowbottom, David J.: Periodization of Training 
9. Arnd Kr端ger: Periodization or Peaking at the right time 
10. Gamble, Paul: Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports: 
Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance

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  • 1. strength & conditioning Futsal specific Alan Sinovi Strength and conditioning coach Futsal club Alumnus Zagreb
  • 2. Who am I? - Bachelors degree at Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb - Strength and conditioning specialist - Worked as a fitness coach in footbal, futsal, basketball and handball clubs Major trophies: - Croatian champion with Footbal club Zadar, boys U-15 (season 2012/13 - Croatian champion with futsal club Alumnus, season 2013/14
  • 3. Some key facts about futsal: Analysis of movement demands has shown that locomotor activities in futsal match changing every 3.28 seconds One study reported 8.6 activities per minute of play with a high-intensity effort every 23 seconds Futsal players at high competetive level cover 121 (105137) meters per minute Aerobic capacity (Vo2max) of professional futsal players is 58-65 ml/kg/min
  • 7. What all this means? It means that futsal player at high competetive level must have very well developed all important conditioning segments: speed, agility, quickness, aerobic and anaerobic capacities, coordination, balance and strength
  • 9. Important segments of strength & conditioning in futsal 1. Work capacity 2. Individual aproach 3. Evaluation/testing 4. Core training 5. Vo2max development 6. Tactical metabolic training 7. Speed, agility and quickness 8. Injury prevention 9. Balance 10. Periodization 11. Nutrition & suplementation
  • 10. 1. Work capacity Work capacity definition by Vern Gambetta: - The ability to tolerate a high workload - The ability to recover from the workload sufficiently for the next training session or competition - The ability to resist fatigue
  • 11. Why work capacity is so important? 1. Necessary for enduring the length of each training session 2. Prepares the athlete for more stressful training sessions and cycles 3. Enables quick recovery between training sessions
  • 12. 2. Individual approach Each futsal team is a group of different people, with different capacities, skills and different weakest links. So, when you work with a team, you must consider your team as a group of individuals. For example, if you are working on raising the level of aerobic capacity with all players following the same program, you can expect one of the things: 1. Your fittest players will raise their fitness level, but the least fittest players will overtrain 2. Least fittest players will improve, but fittest players will stagnate
  • 13. Individual approach What to do? - Break players into two or three smaller groups, depending of their abilities and your resources - Designing different programs, e.g. one program is for players who must work on agility, second program is for those who lacks in glycolityc endurance...
  • 14. 3. Testing/evaluation Standing broad jump Sprint 5, 10, 20 meters
  • 15. Testing/evaluation 4x5 meters agility 300 yard shuttle test
  • 16. Testing/evaluation Beep test Yo-Yo Intermittent Test (or Yo-Yo Intermittent Endurance Test)
  • 17. Testing/evaluation FIET - futsal intermittent endurance test - developed by Jose Carlos Barbero Alvarez et. al. - test for specific futsal endurance
  • 18. Testing/evaluation - players run shuttle-running bouts of 3x15 m (45m) dictated by audio signals - after each 45 meters players are allowed to rest for 10 seconds - after each 8x45m, players passively rest for 30 seconds before continuing - starting speed is 9 km/h, speed increments is 0.33 km/h for first 9 bouts, shifting to 0.20 km/h from 10th bout every 45m until exhausting -The test ends when player do not reach the front line in time with beeps for 2 succesive times
  • 19. 4. Core training -The core plays an important role in transferring forces from one end of the body to the other - Core strength has a significant effect on an athletes ability to develop and transfer forces to the limbs - If a player has a weak core, hell be limited in ability to maximize his running and shooting - Proper core stability allows an athlete to accelerate, decelerate, change directions and quickly adjust to spontaneous loading changes
  • 20. Core training Core training is often neglected, underrated od misunderstood - Hundreds of crunches totaly wrong - Hours in plank position far from enough for quality core - Core is the most important link in kinetic chain! THE CORE: - the spine - hips and pelvis - lower limp - abdominal structures MOVEMENTS: 1. Multiplanar 2. Functional 3. Preferably in standing position
  • 21. Core training The core can produce, reduce, and resist: spinal flexion (saggital plane) extension (saggital plane) lateral flexion (frontal plane) rotation (transverse plane)
  • 22. Core training Sample exercises:
  • 23. 5. Vo2max development - VO2max: individual's maximal aerobic capacity - It refers to the maximum amount of oxygen that an individual can utilize during intense or maximal exercise -It is generally considered the best indicator of cardiorespiratory endurance and aerobic fitness - Vo2max is highly correlated with repeated sprint ability and recovery rate - VO2max values of or above 60 mL/kg/min are advisable to play futsal at the professional level (Jose Carlos Barbero-Alvarez)
  • 24. Vo2max development M E T H O D S 1. Billlat protocol 15/15 or 30/30 interval training: run 15 od 30 seconds at 90% of HRmax) followed by 15 or 30 seconds running at 70% of intensity. 12-20 reps in training, once or twice a week 2. 4x4 interval training 4 intervals of 4 minutes of high intensity exercise at 90% of HRmax followed with 3 minutes of active recovery at 70% HRmax 3. small-sided games Various games where players must almost constantly be in the zone of vo2max (intensity cca. 90% HRmax)
  • 25. 6. Tactical metabolic training The tactical metabolic training approach to conditioning is an extension of the high intensity intervals and repeated sprint conditioning approaches. The keys to tactical modeling are parameters from competetive matches (work/rest ratio from competetive matches). This is favourable from a coaching viewpoint as it allows technical and tactical elements to be executed in simulated game conditions (Plisk and Gambetta)
  • 26. 6. Speed, agility and quickness SAQ Most popular method in the conditioning of athletes SPEED - rapidity of movement AGILITY - rapid whole body movement with change of velocity or direction in response to a stimulus QUICKNESS - the ability to read and react to a situation; it is a multidirectional skill that combines explosiveness, reactiveness, and acceleration SAQ is based on the stretch-shortening SAQ is based on the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC). SSC is cycle (SSC). SSC a eccentric contraction followed by an immediate concentric contraction is a eccentric contraction followed by an immediate concentric contraction
  • 27. Speed, agility and quickness BENEFITS OF SPEED, AGILITY AND QUICKNESS TRAINING: faster footwork improved dynamic balance improved movement shortening of reaction time preventing injuries
  • 28. Speed, agility and quickness Framework of Speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) program: 1. Dynamic flexibility Dynamic flexibility increase muscular flexibility through the neuromuscular system and reduce injury via decreasing reflexive muscle contractions 2. Mechanics of movement (running technique) Hurdle drills; Knee-lifts, dead leg, multiple hops, sidesteps, forward and lateral jumps... 3. Innervation Ladder drills; various linear and lateral exercises 4. Accumulation of potential This phase brings together the areas of work already practiced. Short and very explosive drills, and the emphasis is on quality. Combination runs. 5. Explosion Short speed bursts, resistance running, contrast training 6. Expression of potential Sixth phase brings together all the elements of the SAQ programme into highly competitive situations
  • 30. Injury prevention 1. Quality warm-up Prepares muscles, ligaments and tendons for trainings and matches 2. Proprioception It refers to the body's ability to sense movement within joints and joint position 3. Good technique & skills Player with good skils and technique will be less prone to injuries 4. Eccentric muscle contractions eccentric strengthening have big preventive effect 5. Strengthening Stronger muscles, ligaments and tendons are less injury prone 6. Work on stability and mobility Joint by joint approach best secret for injury prevention
  • 31. 8. Balance Balance is the single most important component of athletic ability because it underlies all movement (Vern Gambetta) - Our goal must be to develop balance in motion - it is impossible to quality reduce and produce force without balance - if the balance is lost, it leads to inefficient movement and wasted energy - exercises: 90 degree jumps, leaning tower, hurdle walk...
  • 32. 9. Periodization Periodization is the systematic planning of training. The aim is to reach the best possible performance in the most important competition of the year
  • 33. periodization GENERAL PREPARATION PERIOD 6 8 weeks First two-three weeks: general preparation with 60-70% strength and conditioning programs (testing, prevention, proprioception, aerobic and muscular endurance, general strength), 30-40% futsal technique and tactics Third to fourth or fifth week: futsal specific strength and conditioning, 50% of conditioning programmes and 50% od technical and tactical preparation Last two to three weeks: emphasis on technical and tactical programmes (70-80%), conditioning programmes are strictly specific (SAQ programmes, small-sided games...)
  • 34. 10. Nutrition and supplements Dont underestimate power of quality nutrition! 1. Dont eat simple carbs and sugars 2. After training first replace fluids (water or isotonic drinks) 3. Eat lots of fish, eventually add some quality omega- 3 supplement 4. Include healthy fats(olive oil, nuts, seeds...) 5. Never miss your meal 6. Avoid fried foods 7. Dont trust everything you hear from supplements industry
  • 35. Important things to know 1.Train movements, not muscles 2.In every training session create an challenging environment 3.Involve as many speed sessions as possible 4.Stress core before extremities 5.Dont involve single-joint movements 6.Folow the right progression
  • 36. REFERENCES: 1. Gambetta, Vern: Gambetta Method, a Common sense guide to functional training for athletic performance 2. Castagna, C., Barbero Alvarez, J. C.: Physiological demands of an intermittent Futsal-oriented high-intensity test 3. Barbero Alvarez, J.C., et. al.: Match demands of professional Futsal: a case study 4. Barbero Alvarez, J. C. et. al.: Match analysis and heart rate of futsal players during competition 5. Fitzgibbon, Shane; Getting to the core: http://irelandstrengthandconditioning.wordpress.com/2013/ 09/27/getting-to-the-core-what-is-core-training-anyway/ 6. Kelso, Tom: Core Strength and the Athlete: Keeping It in Perspective 7. Junge A, Dvorak J: Injury risk of playing football in Futsal World Cups 8. Rowbottom, David J.: Periodization of Training 9. Arnd Kr端ger: Periodization or Peaking at the right time 10. Gamble, Paul: Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports: Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance