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Conditioning to Maximise Performance: 50 Practices - Youth to Pro | Training Week | Football Periodization
Conditioning to Maximise Performance
50 Practices | Youth to Pro | Training Week | Football Periodization
Football Specific Conditioning from a World Leading High Performance Expert to Maximise the Performance of Your Players and Team
Following the best-selling Football Periodization to Maximise Performance book and the first two volumes in this series (Warm Ups and Technical Practices), high performance expert and UEFA Pro Licence Coach Educator Adam Owen PhD now presents a complete football-specific conditioning resource for coaches at all levels.
From his extensive experience in elite football, you will learn how to structure conditioning through the training week and connect physical work to your game model to produce optimum conditioning, low injury rates, and peak match day performance.
Key Benefits of this Book for Coaches:
- Develop Essential Physical Qualities: Improve acceleration, deceleration, repeat intensity actions, movement efficiency, and position-specific demands.
- Clear Training Week Structure: Learn how resistance, reaction speed, speed endurance, and activation conditioning practices fit into the periodization model.
- Smarter Load Management: Apply conditioning without overloading players to reduce injury risk and help them perform at their peak levels on match day.
- Integrated Football-Specific Conditioning: Use conditioning within realistic football practices and build physicality through game actions.
- 50 Practices: Practical conditioning for Pro, Semi-Pro, Academy, and Youth levels.
If conditioning training is not intelligently delivered throughout the training week, performance drops, injury risk rises, and players struggle to sustain match-level intensity. That is why I have produced a practical conditioning framework that works across all levels of the game.
Condition the Training Week for Peak Match Day Performance
This book shows you how to plan conditioning across the week, so each training day has a clear physical focus and purpose.
- Resistance (Match Day -4): After recovery, rebuild robustness with controlled overload, accelerations, decelerations, and duels.
- Speed Endurance (Match Day -3): Deliver the week’s most demanding physical session with game-related high speed running and repeated sprints under fatigue.
- Reaction Speed (Match Day -2): Use low volume, high quality reaction practices to sharpen explosiveness and decision-making as load begins to taper.
- Activation (Match Day -1): Prime players mentally and physically with short, sharp activation work to keep them fresh and ready to start fast.
- Training Week Periodization: Follow a football-specific training structure that prepares your players to perform at their highest level on match day.
The Football Periodization Methodology:
This conditioning book is an invaluable tool, but is one piece of a larger methodology fully outlined in the "Football Periodization to Maximise Performance" book, so we highly recommend adding it to your library for the complete training program.
"Adam provides an outstanding mixture of applied research, practical application and tremendous experience in the world of high-performance football."
50 Conditioning Practices to Maximise Performance: Youth to Pro Training Week with Football Periodization
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112 Pages
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50 Practices
Youth-Pro Level
Included Practice Examples:
- Resistance: Explosive Pressing Speed and Duel Circuit with Recovery Running
- Speed Endurance: Game-Specific High Intensity Crossing and Box-Entry Runs
- Reaction Speed: Passing and Explosive Acceleration with Timing of Runs
- Pre-Match Activation: Scanning and Mental Activation Reactive Colour Signal Sprints
Adam Owen PhD (Author of this Book)
What Top Players Say About Working with Adam Owen PhD
Javier Mascherano (Argentina Under 20 National Team Manager)
"Adam and I started working together when he arrived in China. He is a great professional and person who shows a high level of passion and quality within his working methodology in football.
I am grateful to him for the time we were working together, as he was a great help to me both professionally and personally. We remain in contact, and I hope we will get the chance to work together again in the future."
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid and Wales National Team player):
"Adam is someone I have always trusted and whose opinion and advice I trust. We remained in constant communication between international duties and always had an excellent personal and professional relationship.
Having worked for so long together at the elite international level of the game, it shows his professional quality and worth. Adam is someone who has helped me through my career and is someone I always enjoyed working with on a day-to-day basis."
Aaron Ramsey (Juventus FC and Wales National Team player):
"After knowing and working with Adam for many years internationally, I consider him to be a top professional in his area of expertise, and someone with whom I have been able to improve different areas of my game, due to his methodology and knowledge."
Conditioning to Maximise Performance: 50 Practices | Youth to Pro | Training Week | Football Periodization
Conditioning from a World Leading High Performance Expert to Maximise the Performance of Your Players and Team
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Customer Reviews
very nice book, important for coaches
great way of getting the lads to enjoy conditioning without just sending them on a run or sprints. anything with the ball leads to more effort and focus. love the different exercises as well as the author teaching us coaches way to schedule conditioning in with the amount of practices/games you have in a week that is sustainable for the lads.
Something that is often neglected. The most conditioned teams win games. Very good book.
Another excellent addition to an excellent series of books
Excellent resource for practices and preparing your squad for the season.
Excellent book for coaches who want to update their knowledge.
I am satisfied and I would recommend it.
