Strength and Conditioning for Football

Jarvis, MarkMark 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.

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.

Ground-breaking text on Strength and Conditioning and its application to football including the professional game.

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