Seriously, do kicking practice everyday and include plyometrics into your exercises, basically explosive stuff like jumping, sprinting and all that, it will improve your power and agility, making you able to kick harder at a faster rate of kicking. Keep strength training to a maximum with squats, leg extensions and leg curls and you will have more power to drive the ball into space. (Not literally)

my progress in a weekly blog, which you can find below, and included ... I'd recommend running, running and running some more until your legs drop off. ... I obviously had very little time to go from zero to hero, so empty snacking ... undeniably make you look like a big strong