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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Principles of Specificity and Transfer of Training Effects
• Introduction
• Principle of individuality
• Process of training adaptation
• Specificity in relation to training experience and athletic status
• Specificity of training
• Metabolic specificity
• Biomechanical specificity
• Kinetic and kinematic specificity
• Psychological specificity
• The paradox of specificity and transfer of training effects
• Accounting for specificity in training programme design
• 2 Assessing Physiological and Performance Parameters
• Introduction
• Rationale for testing team sports players
• Application of testing in team sports
• Utility and practical relevance of physiological and performance tests
• Practicality of test modes for athletic assessment
• Scheduling of testing
• Strength assessment
• Maximum strength
• Assessing eccentric strength
• Strength-endurance
• Assessing ‘speed-strength’ or explosive power
• Isokinetic dynamometry
• Tests of rate of force development
• Isoinertial assessment of power output
• Olympic weightlifting repetition-maximum testing
• Vertical jump assessment
• Horizontal jump tests
• Assessing reactive (speed-)strength and stretch-shortening cycle performance
• Evaluating endurance performance
• Laboratory assessments
• Field-based maximal tests of cardiorespiratory fitness
• Submaximal tests of endurance fitness
• Assessment of running economy or work efficiency
• Assessments of lactate-handling capacity
• Field tests of ‘anaerobic capacity’
• Tests of repeated sprint ability
• Assessing speed components
• Measures of straight-line acceleration abilities
• Assessment of straight-line running speed
• Testing agility performance
• Tests of change of direction performance
• Assessments of ‘reactive agility’
• Balance and stability testing
• Single-leg balance and stabilisation
• Lumbopelvic ‘core’ stability
• Musculoskeletal profiling and movement screening
• 3 Neuromuscular Training
• Introduction
• The necessity for neuromuscular training for athlete populations
• Dose-response relationship and retention of neuromuscular training effects
• Identifying deficits in neuromuscular control
• Assessing balance abilities
• Movement-based assessments of neuromuscular function and control
• Neuromuscular training for postural control and balance
• Static balance training
• Dynamic balance training
• Dynamic stabilisation
• ‘Movement skills’ neuromuscular training
• Assessing movement skill competencies
• Neuromuscular training to develop locomotor abilities
• 4 Metabolic Conditioning
• Introduction
• Metabolic conditioning and team sports performance
• Methodological challenges for profiling demands of team sports competition
• Physiological and neuromuscular bases of team sports endurance
• Repeated sprint ability
• Running economy and neuromuscular factors
• Factors determining relevant training adaptations
• Enzyme adaptation
• Energy substrate availability and restoration
• Capacity to clear and buffer metabolites
• Peripheral adaptations supporting muscle oxygenation
• Aerobic capacity and maximum aerobic speed
• Neuromuscular adaptations
• Training strategies to develop different aspects of metabolic conditioning
• High-intensity training methods
• High-intensity interval running conditioning
• Tactical metabolic training approach
• Skill-based conditioning drills
• Small-sided conditioning games
• Conclusions and training recommendations
• 5 Strength Training
• Introduction
• Requirements and relevant strength qualities for team sports
• Sport-specific strength
• Associated benefits of strength training for team sports players
• Reducing risk of injury
• Strength training to improve endurance performance
• Approaching strength training for team sports players
• Specificity of dose–response relationships with strength training experience
• Strength training prescription for elite athletes
• Format of strength training
• Strength-training methods and modes
• Progression of strength training variables
• Progression of strength training modes: the specificity continuum
• Conclusions and training recommendations
• 6 Training for Power
• Introduction
• Approaching training for power or ‘speed-strength’
• Factors in the expression of explosive muscular power
• Maximum dynamic strength
• Rate of force development
• High-velocity strength
• Stretch-shortening cycle capabilities
• Neuromuscular skill and co-ordination
• Speed-strength training modes for development of explosive muscular power
• Olympic weightlifting training modes
• Ballistic resistance training
• Plyometric training
• Complex training
• Co-ordination training
• Conclusions and training recommendations
• 7 Sports Speed and Agility Development
• Introduction
• Trainability of speed and agility capabilities
• Specificity of speed versus agility development
• Mechanics of sprint running
• Foot strike during sprinting
• The importance of arm action to stride mechanics
• Running mechanics for different phases of sprint running
• Expression of speed in sports
• Aspects of agility expression in team sports
• Change of direction movement mechanics
• Sensorimotor, perceptual and decision-making aspects of agility
• Elements of speed development
• Strength and speed-strength training modes
• Sprinting-specific plyometrics
• Resisted co-ordination training modes
• Specific speed development
• Elements of agility development
• Strength and speed-strength training modes
• Postural control and stability
• Change of direction movement skills development
• Transfer training for agility development
• Summary
• 8 Lumbopelvic ‘Core’ Stability
• Introduction
• The various functions of the ‘core’
• Components of lumbopelvic stability
• Deep postural muscles of the lumbar spine and pelvic girdle
• Muscles and connective tissue structures of the trunk
• Muscles of the shoulder complex
• Muscles of the hip girdle
• Summary
• Demands placed on the ‘core’ when engaging in team sports
• Lumbopelvic stability and injury
• Contribution of the ‘core’ to neuromuscular control of the lower limb
• Core function and performance
• An integrated approach to training the ‘core’
• Postural stability neuromuscular training
• Lumbopelvic strength and higher load stability training modes
• Conclusions
• 9 Training for Injury Prevention Identifying risk factors
• Introduction
• Injury risk factors for team sports players
• Intrinsic injury risk factors
• Extrinsic injury risk factors
• Representative injury data for selected team sports
• Baseball
• Soccer
• Volleyball
• Basketball
• Netball
• American football
• Rugby union football
• Rugby league football
• Australian rules football
• Ice hockey
• Analysis of risk factors for injury prevention training interventions
• Risk factors and injury mechanisms for identified injuries
• Summary
• 10 Training for Injury Prevention Specific training interventions
• Introduction
• Approaching training for injury prevention
• Integration of injury prevention training
• Intensity and progression of training variables
• Injury prevention training interventions
• Ankle
• Knee ligament injury
• Patellar tendinopathy
• Hamstrings
• Adductor muscles
• Lumbar spine
• Shoulder complex
• Summary
• 11 Planning and Scheduling Periodisation of training
• Introduction
• Training variation
• Periodisation of training
• Scheduling and transfer of training effects
• Periodising intensity, volume and content of training prescribed
• Approaching periodisation
• Periodisation schemes
• Use of periodisation in professional team sports
• Challenges and practical solutions for periodised team sports training
• Extended season of competition
• Multiple training goals
• Interaction between different forms of training
• Time constraints imposed by concurrent technical and tactical training
• Impact of physical stresses from games
• Practical application of periodised training for a team sports season
• Off-season
• Pre-season
• In-season
• Scheduling considerations for the weekly microcycle
• Summary and conclusions
• 12 Physical Preparation for Youth Sports
• Introduction
• Necessity of physical preparation for young team sports players
• Addressing fundamental movement skill development
• Supporting growth, development and body composition
• Influence of growth and maturation on the development of physical performance capabilities
• ‘Overuse’ injury incidence in youth sports
• A long-term perspective on youth training
• The dangers of early specialisation
• Strength training for young team sports players
• Safety and effectiveness of youth resistance training
• Mechanisms for strength gains in prepubescent and adolescent athletes
• Strength training for performance enhancement in youth Sports
• Strength training for injury prevention
• Training to develop bone health and connective tissue
• Metabolic conditioning
• Responsiveness of young athletes to different forms of metabolic conditioning
• Mechanisms of training adaptations
• Aerobic conditioning
• Anaerobic conditioning modes
• Summary
• Training recommendations for young players
• Prepubescent players
• Early puberty
• Adolescent players
• Appendix: Practical Examples of Training Design
• Designing the programme: needs analysis
• Example 1 Female team sport – women’s basketball
• Example 2 Contact sport – rugby union football
• Example 3: Striking and/or throwing team sport-baseball
• References
• Index