If you are currently aspires to be a football player as long as possible, here are some tips that may guide you to increase your stamina and keep fit.
* Increase endurance running. You can increase your stamina by running exercise. If in one week you ran 3 miles, the next week you can try to run as far as 5 kilometers. In addition to improving and maintaining stamina, it can also strengthen your leg and thigh muscles and increase strength and endurance of your body.
* Swimming and diving in the water. You can do swimming and diving sport to improve and maintain your stamina. This exercise can also improve lung capacity, breathing control and increase the strength of the muscles of your body.
* Exercise regularly alternating. The point is that you can perform two or more types of exercise in turn. For example the first exercise you can do brisk walking, then running, then run again, then run in turn. This can be interspersed with taking a break while doing moderate exercise to flex your muscles.
* Jump squat exercise. Jump squats on a regular basis can help you improve the strength of your leg and thigh muscles. You can do it in practice for several minutes. Because muscle strength and leg is the most important thing in keeping your stamina in playing football.
* Exercise your upper body. Although playing football most of the use of the lower body, you must keep your upper body condition, so that your body balance is maintained. You can do moderate exercise to train the head, neck, shoulders, back, chest and hands in order to maintain flexibility and not rigid. It can also help you improve and your stamina.
* Get plenty of rest. To maintain the stamina you need to get adequate rest. You must have a proper schedule when to practice, play football, sleep and rest. You also have to reduce the time to stay up and come out at night because it would interfere with your rest time.
* Eat a healthy and balanced nutrition. You must maintain and control the food intake into your body. You should reduce fatty foods but consume lots of vegetables and fruits and meat to taste. You can also take additional vitamins and nutrients that can keep your body condition remained good.
As in any sport practice, before practice, do not forget to warm up and cool down first. This is to keep your body's muscles do not cramp or tension that can result in you get injured.