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Complete Conditioning for Football
Michael Arthur and Bryan Bailey Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL 1998 285 pages
ISBN: 0-88011-521-1 Price: $16.95, Canada $24.95
When people talk about college football, several names are synonymous with success. These include Penn State, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, and Nebraska. In the domain of football strength and conditioning, Nebraska is the leader in the field. This book, written by 2 of Nebraska's strength and conditioning coaches, is a fully developed sportspecific conditioning program for the dedicated athletic trainer and conditioning professional.
The book discusses every aspect of developing a topnotch football conditioning program. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 set the tone by focusing on the very specific performance needs, conditioning principles, testing, and goal setting for football. This section assesses work-to-rest ratios required to condition football players. The ratios were developed by examining the actual work and rest times of players in practices and games. This information separates this book from many other texts that offer conditioning programs developed from track-based programs. In addition, the authors offer a...