Complete Conditioning for Football (Original PDF from Publisher)

Today’s game of football is more physically demanding than ever. Every play is full speed, sideline to sideline, goal line to goal line, for four punishing quarters. To withstand the rigors of the game, today’s players must be better conditioned than ever. The team with the stronger, faster, more agile, and more powerful athletes is the one earning Ws on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.Complete Conditioning for Football provides the modern training system needed to prepare your players to perform at their peak and win consistently. In order to achieve success at every level of competition, Aaron Wellman, a former National Football League (NFL) strength and conditioning coach and current college senior assistant athletic director for football performance, focuses on strength, power, and muscle hypertrophy. Complete Conditioning for Football includes ready-to-use, research-based training methods and programs that include general and position-specific exercises, drills, activities, and progressions, from early movement preparation to an integrated, all-year training regimen. Strength and conditioning coaches can create training plans for their team and individual players with the help of this book. For coaches and athletes in a program without a full-time strength coach, it is also a useful manual. The book Complete Conditioning for Football describes how to assess present fitness levels and track advancement in every area and stage of training over the course of the year. Preseason, in-season, and off-season training regimens are included, along with position-specific and team-wide exercises, drills, and programs that focus on developing speed, agility, strength, power, and stamina for peak performance. There is helpful dietary advice and information offered to maximize training effects, facilitate post-workout recuperation, and motivate athletes to give their best in sports. The purpose of the sleep and rest guidelines and suggestions is to keep athletes rested and ready for any physical or mental challenge they may encounter. The book also offers helpful advice on how to reintroduce players to training and competition in a safe and responsible manner following an injury. Complete Conditioning for Football, the sport’s most thorough conditioning manual, provides readers with the knowledge of a leading strength and conditioning coach to help teams and players get physically ready to dominate on game day.