Training
Science-based training methods, periodization, and programming for endurance and team sports.
Blood Flow Restriction Training — The Rehabilitation Tool Changing Football Medicine
Blood flow restriction training football: Introduction A player returns from ACL reconstruction unable to load their knee with the weights needed to…
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The Academy-to-Professional Transition — What the Science Says About Surviving It
Academy professional transition football science: Introduction Of the thousands of players who enter elite football academies in Europe annually.
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Speed Development — Programming Maximum Velocity Training
Speed development maximum velocity football: Yet dedicated maximum velocity training — work designed specifically to develop top-end sprint speed…
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Strength and Conditioning Periodisation — Programming the Full Season
Strength conditioning periodisation football season: Introduction A strength and conditioning coach at a professional club faces a problem that no other…
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Strength Training for Footballers — What to Lift and Why
Strength training footballers science football: Introduction For much of football's history, the weight room was viewed with suspicion.
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Small-Sided Games — The Swiss Army Knife of Football Training
Small sided games science football: Introduction The small-sided game — two teams, reduced pitch, modified rules — is the most versatile…
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Speed Endurance Training — Running Faster for Longer
Speed endurance training football: Running fast 35 times across 90 minutes, with only incomplete recoveries between efforts, is an entirely different…
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Plyometrics — The Science of Jump Training in Football
Plyometrics jump training football science: Introduction A striker leaps over a defender to head a cross.
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Core Stability in Football — More Than Just Sit-Ups
Core stability football science: Introduction "Strengthen your core" has become the most repeated phrase in sport, uttered in physiotherapy clinics, gym…
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Overtraining Syndrome — When Too Much Training Becomes a Disease
Overtraining syndrome football diagnosis: Introduction The most counterintuitive truth in sports science: training too hard, for too long, without adequate…
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