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Complete Conditioning for Soccer Greg Gatz

Complete Conditioning for Soccer By Greg Gatz

Complete Conditioning for Soccer by Greg Gatz


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Summary

Presnts a comprehensive training approach that builds players' physical abilities as well as the soccer-specific skills required for dribbling, tackling, passing, heading, shooting and goalkeeping. This book provides a multi-dimensional training approach that shows readers how to get the most from their time in the gym and on the pitch.

Complete Conditioning for Soccer Summary

Complete Conditioning for Soccer by Greg Gatz

Increase strength to dribble through traffic. Pack more power into shots on goal. Improve quickness and agility to find open passing lanes and evade opponents. Complete Conditioning for Soccer shows you how to achieve all of these performance goals and more.

Soccer players are faster and stronger than ever before. In this special book and DVD package, renowned soccer strength and conditioning coach Greg Gatz provides a comprehensive training approach that builds players' physical abilities as well as the soccer-specific skills required for dribbling, tackling, passing, heading, shooting, and goalkeeping.

Complete with assessment tests for determining a players' fitness status and specific programs that improve balance, quickness, agility, speed, and strength, this book will help you dominate your position. The DVD puts the training into action by demonstrating key tests, exercises, and drills from the book.

With nutritional guidelines as well as seasonal workouts, Complete Conditioning for Soccer provides a multidimensional training approach that will show you how to get the most from your time in the gym and on the pitch.

Complete Conditioning for Soccer Reviews

As proven by his role with multiple national champions, Greg Gatz understands how to develop the speed, agility, and fitness required for soccer success. In Complete Conditioning for Soccer, he brings that understanding to you.

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About Greg Gatz

Greg Gatz is the director of strength and conditioning for Olympic sports at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has served since 1998. In addition to overseeing facility management and the organization of 20 sports teams, Gatz is in charge of program design and execution for specific teams, including men's and women's soccer, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, and track.

Gatz has worked closely with several national championship teams at UNC: women's soccer (1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008), men's soccer (2001), a volleyball team that finished with one of its highest national rankings ever (#12) in 2002, and the 2006 and 2007 national runner-up baseball teams.

Gatz was nominated in 2001 for College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He holds a specialist certification from the NSCA and a level I certification in Olympic weightlifting from the United States Weightlifting Federation. A 1983 graduate of Ithaca College in New York, he competed in football and track while earning a degree in physical education.

Table of Contents

DVD Contents
Preface

Chapter 1. The Physical Demands of Soccer
Chapter 2. Assessing Soccer Fitness
Chapter 3. Flexibility
Chapter 4. Balance
Chapter 5. Total-Body Strength
Chapter 6. Explosive Power
Chapter 7. Speed
Chapter 8. Agility
Chapter 9. Peak Conditioning for the Game
Chapter 10. Match Preparation
Chapter 11. Injury Prevention and Recovery
Chapter 12. Year-Round Training Plans

Index
About the Author

Additional information

GOR002687366
9780736077132
0736077138
Complete Conditioning for Soccer by Greg Gatz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Human Kinetics Publishers
20090417
208
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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