Kids' Football Fitness: Coaching, conditioning and nutrition
Ebook
Overview
Kids’ Football Fitness introduces a brand-new concept for children’s football training, providing building blocks for a carefully structured, target-based programme of coaching, conditioning and nutrition for kids aged 7 to 16, with the aim of improving young players’ fitness for football.
Programmes and drills are especially designed for specific age groups, taking into account young players’ differing stages of growth and development. Basic skills, strength work, speed work, stamina work and nutrition are all covered, with advice on developing a coherent programme to get the best results over a season.
With tips and case studies from a range of professional players, coaches and nutritionists to back up the relevant information, and with clear and concise illustrations for all of the drills, Kids’ Football Fitness is the kids’ football training bible, whether you coach professional academy trainees or an after-school kids’ club.
Kids’ Football Fitness introduces a brand-new concept for children’s football training, providing building blocks for a carefully structured, target-based programme of coaching, conditioning and nutrition for kids aged 7 to 16, with the aim of improving young players’ fitness for football.
Only book for young footballers covering football coaching, conditioning and nutrition
Simon and Steve both well connected within the game - likely to be a very significant ‘word of mouth’ factor to publicity
There are 9,000 youth football clubs in the UK - an additional 1.75 million UK children enjoy a ‘kick-about’ with friends
Five million kids play football at school - a total of 32,000 schools
Up to 750,000 UK adults coach young players, 30,000 of whom are FA-qualified coaches
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Craig Bellamy
Introduction
1 The Warm-up and Cool-down
2 Introducing Conditioning to Younger Players
3 Coaching Skills and Drills
4 Nutrition
5 Putting it All Together
Appendix 1: Sample session plans and programmes
Appendix 2: Sample menus
Appendix 3: Nutritional case studies
Appendix 4: Management of sports injuries
Appendix 5: Forfeits
Bibliography and useful websites
Index
- Title: Kids' Football Fitness: Coaching, conditioning and nutrition
- Authors: Simon Thadani, Steve Foley, Alison Byard
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408105825, 9781408105733, 140810573X, 1408105829
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408105825
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:02:55Z
Simon Thadani has been the fitness and conditioning coach at Ipswich Town FC for the best part of a decade, during which time the team have tasted the high life with Premier League and European football.
Steve Foley is Ipswich's technical skills coach, has worked with dozens of top managers including Jim Smith and the late Alan Ball, and has been involved in the development of young players such as Craig Bellamy and Robert Green, who are now full internationals.
Alison Byard is a state-registered dietitian with over eight years' experience, three of which have been working with Ipswich, providing one-to-one advice and general guidance on nutrition for players of all ages.