Strength and Conditioning for Football
Ebook
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.
A ground-breaking text on Strength and Conditioning and its application to football including the professional game.
First text to recognize the specialism of the expert S&C coach.
Based on real life Premier League experience.
Reveals how S&C can reduce the training and playing time lost to injury.
Reveals the most effective ways of creating exercise programmes, rationales for the approaches available, and special considerations for football.
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
An excellent book ... from someone who obviously gets it in reference to real life S&C at an elite level in soccer.
Strength and Conditioning for Football by Mark Jarvis is a world-class text ... This is sports science at its very best, mixed with actual application.
This manual includes detailed and effective advice ranging form the benefits of each style of squat to well-designed diagrams highlighting the key to the perfect press-up. Including basic and more detailed advice concerning the most effective strength and conditioning techniques, this is ideal for players and coaches that wish to enhance their own or their team's effectiveness on the pitch.
- Title: Strength and Conditioning for Football
- Author: Mark Jarvis
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472913319, 9781472913302, 1472913302, 1472913310
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472913319
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:06:10Z
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.