Total Soccer Fitness £13.95 plus P&P (email for a postage quote)
The key to any soccer conditioning program is how well it transfers to enhanced soccer
performance. In this remarkable book, one of the UK’s leading soccer strength and
conditioning coaches explains the scientific principles underlying the specific requirements
of soccer conditioning, and then presents programs designed to address those needs.
Individual chapters are devoted to each of the key fitness variables required for
top soccer performance, and include: the fitness requirements of soccer, the science
of soccer conditioning, assessing performance, workout preparation, speed training,
agility training, strength training, power training, core training, endurance training,
flexibility training, nutrition for soccer, recovery and regeneration, and putting
the program together. Contains 250 clear photographs and illustrations.
A Coaches Guide to Enhancing recovery in Athletes - The Performance Lifestyle
£13.95 plus P&P (email for a postage quote)
No matter how sophisticated a training programme, Under-recovery will always compromise
performance. To be effective any performance-enhancement program must ensure that
recovery is as well-planned and programmed as the athlete s training. The Performance
Lifestyle provides coaches and athletes with a structure around which to build individualized
and multidimensional recovery strategies that both optimize recovery and maximize
performance levels. The first part of the book covers the multiple nature of recovery
in athletes broken down into three chapters: the nature of fitness, fatigue, and
recovery, a multidimensional approach to recovery, and the performance lifestyle
model. The second part of the book details the seven pillars of the performance lifestyle,
which are: pillar 1 identify and act on dreams, pillar 2 develop self-awareness,
pillar 3 the power of positive, pillar 4 the power of rituals, pillar 5 build capacity
and recover, pillar 6 quality nutrition, and pillar 7 quality sleep.
The soccer striker accelerating through a gap to score the winning goal; a running
back spotting a gap, making a great cut, and then bursting through the secondary
to the end zone; the basketball forward driving to the basket for the go-ahead points;
the baseball player stealing first base. These types of plays provide the highlights
of sport, and are the elements that athletes and coaches value so highly. All of
these examples demonstrate the application of running speed, not as an end in itself,
but instead as a critical element of superior sports performance the essence of gamespeed.
The gamespeed system provides coaches and athletes with a method that directly enhances
speed and agility, but more importantly develops these skills in a manner that can
be applied directly to superior sports performance. Using unique target classifications,
the first sports movement is broken down into distinct patterns, which are then sequentially
developed using scientific principles enabling the athlete to move with speed, agility,
and control in game-specific situations. Athletes following the system will give
themselves a clear advantage in developing electrifying gamespeed and taking their
performance to another level.
GAMESPEED £13.95 plus P&P (email for a postage quote)
