Preparing your soccer team requires a scientific approach to training where profiling physical characteristics and defining fitness levels are key. How you train a forward is completely different from the approach used to train a defenseman or goalie. Plus the training regimen varies throughout the season, and with each player's performance level. Once you understand the fitness levels required by each position and your players' current fitness levels, you are better prepared to train them more effectively. Polar monitors and the Team System provide the tools to do just that. By monitoring your players' heart rate intensity, you can adjust your program to easily train each individual, within the team environement, and without risking over or undertraining them. Heart rate monitoring allows for game simulation and is critical to endurance training. It will help you better prepare players for the three phases aerobic, anaerobic and lactate they'll experience during a game.

Taking that one step further, you can tailor conditioning workouts to help establish parity amongst players in the same position. Using your starters as the benchmark, you'll have a better understanding of the improvements needed by your second-string or rookie players to get to that elite performance stage. You can also use this information to help rehabilitate the injured, comparing pre- and post-injury fitness levels. With heart rate data easily accessible on your PC, you'll have the ability to analyze and modify conditioning programs to help your team achieve peak performance.