Strength and Conditioning for Football
The definitive guide to how strength and conditioning (S&C) can be effectively applied in football.

S&C is well established as a cornerstone of sports science in elite sport, and is now a key part in the preparation and training of professional footballers, helping to make players more robust, more efficient and more explosive.

This comprehensive manual covers all aspects that contribute to successful practice so that training and playing time lost to injury is reduced. This guide deals with much more than a list of exercises. Based on experience at Premier League level, critical topics include:

· Effective coaching
· Injury prevention
· Performance monitoring
· Performance enhancement

This book is a unique resource for existing and aspiring football S&C coaches as well as sports science graduates. In a developing field, this pioneering text will help to shape and define the role of the S&C coach within football to help players at all levels of the game.
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Strength and Conditioning for Football
The definitive guide to how strength and conditioning (S&C) can be effectively applied in football.

S&C is well established as a cornerstone of sports science in elite sport, and is now a key part in the preparation and training of professional footballers, helping to make players more robust, more efficient and more explosive.

This comprehensive manual covers all aspects that contribute to successful practice so that training and playing time lost to injury is reduced. This guide deals with much more than a list of exercises. Based on experience at Premier League level, critical topics include:

· Effective coaching
· Injury prevention
· Performance monitoring
· Performance enhancement

This book is a unique resource for existing and aspiring football S&C coaches as well as sports science graduates. In a developing field, this pioneering text will help to shape and define the role of the S&C coach within football to help players at all levels of the game.
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Strength and Conditioning for Football

Strength and Conditioning for Football

by Mark Jarvis
Strength and Conditioning for Football

Strength and Conditioning for Football

by Mark Jarvis

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Overview

The definitive guide to how strength and conditioning (S&C) can be effectively applied in football.

S&C is well established as a cornerstone of sports science in elite sport, and is now a key part in the preparation and training of professional footballers, helping to make players more robust, more efficient and more explosive.

This comprehensive manual covers all aspects that contribute to successful practice so that training and playing time lost to injury is reduced. This guide deals with much more than a list of exercises. Based on experience at Premier League level, critical topics include:

· Effective coaching
· Injury prevention
· Performance monitoring
· Performance enhancement

This book is a unique resource for existing and aspiring football S&C coaches as well as sports science graduates. In a developing field, this pioneering text will help to shape and define the role of the S&C coach within football to help players at all levels of the game.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472913319
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/02/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 71 MB
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About the Author

Mark Jarvis is an S&C coach and performance consultant who has refined his skills in the English Premier League and Champions League as well as a range of medal winning Olympic and Paralympic athletes. He is part of the Performance Solutions team at the English Institute of Sport, an expert on plyometrics, and the author of Strength and Conditioning for Triathlon.
Mark Jarvis is an elite strength and conditioning coach. Through his work as Senior Strength&Conditioning Coach for English Institute of Sport, he has worked with an array of GB athletes, including medalists at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has also worked in both the Scottish and English Premier Leagues with the first team squads of Hearts FC and West Bromwich Albion FC respectively. Mark also runs 4th Discipline Triathlon training, a private venture which gives recreational triathletes of all standards the opportunity to experience the level of S&C coaching usually reserved for Olympians.

Table of Contents

Section 1 – Philosophy&Effective Practice
1. Introduction
2. Team Sport Performance Model
3. Systems of Delivery

Section 2 – Injury Prevention
4. Model of Injury Prevention
5. Planning Injury Prevention
6. Specific Injury Systems – Hamstrings
7. Specific Injury Systems – Groins
8. Specific Injury Systems – Knees

Section 3 - Performance Enhancement
9. Fundamental Principles of Performance Enhancement
10. Speed Enhancement&Running Mechanics
11. Improving Speed in the Weight Room
12. Upper Body&Trunk Training
13. Goalkeepers

Section 4 – Applied Lessons
14. Programming&Planning
15. Practical Tools
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