The Science of Strength and Conditioning for Football summaries the current scientific evidence in the field. This evidence serves as a rationale for the decisions practitioners make with their football players, to monitor and develop training programs that will help drive improvements in the relevant physical capacities.
The game of football is one of the most popular in the world and is followed by millions of spectators on all continents. In recent years, football has undergone both technical, tactical and physical evolution, whereby players are subjected to ever higher physical stimuli. To be properly prepared, strength and conditioning coaches must use the most advanced scientific evidence to help inform decision-making regarding conditioning their players.
Strength and Conditioning for Football: From Science to Practice summaries the current scientific evidence in the field for the sport. This evidence serves as a rationale for the decisions practitioners make with their football players, to monitor and develop training programs that will help drive improvements in the relevant physical capacities for the game. This new book develops important arguments in football training with chapters examining such questions as: 1) game model and training, 2) monitoring and testing, 3) recovery and match preparation, and 4) youth and disability in football.
Strength and Conditioning for Football offers critical information to readers aiming to succeed as strength and conditioning coaches in football, and will be required reading for students and practitioners alike in the fields of football, strength and conditioning, coaching, physiotherapy and sport science.
Introduction
1. Physical and Physiological Demands of Football
2. Analytical and Ecological Approaches to Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditioning in Football
3. Strength, Power and Plyometric Training in Football
4. Speed and Agility Training in Football
5. Periodization: Planning Fitness Training in Football
6. Fitness Testing and Physical Profiling in Football
7. Fitness Testing and Physical Profiling in Football
8. Training Load Monitoring in Football
9. Wellness Monitoring and Readiness in Football
10. Match-day Strategies to Enhance Football Performance: Warming-up, Priming and Extra Time
11. Recovery Strategies after Matches
12: Optimizing Return to Performance Following Injury
13. Nutrition and Soccer
14. Basic Psychology for Coaches in Talent Development and Elite Football
15. Considerations for Working with Female Players
16. Strength and conditioning for Youth Football
17. Considerations for Disability Football
Postscript
Marco Beato, PhD, is an Associate Professor (MSc, BSc, CPSS, CSCS, SFHEA) and Head of Sport and Exercise Science in the School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Suffolk Ipswich, UK. Marco has published over 160 peerreviewed journal articles, and he is an Associate Editor for the NSCAs Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (USA) and a fellow and reviewing panel member of the European College of Sport Science (Germany). He is also a scientific and performance consultant of professional football. Marco is qualified as a UEFA coach and professional football fitness coach with the FIGC (Italy).
Chris Bishop, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Strength and Conditioning (MSc, ASCC, SFHEA) at the London Sport Institute, Middlesex University, UK, and is the programme leader for MSc in Strength and Conditioning and the Head of the Department. Chris has published over 250 peerreviewed journal articles, coedited two textbooks and serves as a Senior Editor for the NSCAs Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and an Associate Editor for the Strength and Conditioning Journal. Chris served on the Board of Directors for the UK Strength and Conditioning Association.
Anthony Turner, PhD, is a Professor of Strength and Conditioning (MSc, ASCC, CSCS*D, SFHEA) and the postgraduate research lead at the London Sport Institute, Middlesex University, UK. Anthony was a sports science consultant and strength and conditioning coach to Olympic and Paralympic athletes and was head of physical preparation for GBR fencing for the Rio Olympic Games. Anthony is a consultant in human performance for the British military and a physical performance coach for Tottenham Hotspur Womens Academy.
