For and Athlete in a Sport of Your Choice Design a 12 Week Strength and Conditioning Training Programme.
Part 1: For and athlete in a sport of your choice design a 12 week strength and conditioning training programme.
12 Week Strength and Conditioning Programme
Player history and stats
The programme has been designed for a professional football (soccer) player to return from a left grade 2 adductor magnus tear whilst striking the ball in a competitive game. The player has been cleared through the club doctor and his physio to take part in the programme. The player is currently 6 weeks post injury with no complications throughout his rehabilitation. The aim of the programme will be to return the player to fully functioning professional football. This will be achieved by rebuilding cardio vascular fitness specific to football, increase strength and flexibility to ensure the working muscles tuned for the demands of the modern game and speed, agility and quickness training to ensure the players tempo and coordination are fully functional to last a full game whilst reducing the early onset of fatigue.
Player stats
29 years old with a 10 year history of professional football clubs. The player is left footed and plays as a left wing back. He has strained this particular muscle group previous to this 2-3 seasons ago.
Needs analysis of football
Football (soccer) is possibly the most widely followed sport on the planet and can generate millions of pounds for the top players in the world. With such high wages and international stardom for both players and clubs, there is a pressure on coaches and staff to play their strongest teams, sometimes asking too much from players physiologically.
In order to design Strength and Conditioning programmes, it is firstly important to look at the content of a game of football and then allow it to be specified to each individual player. Although players may play in similar positions no two players and physiologically the same.
Football is a high intensity, long lasting intermittent exercise, which is split in to 2
12 Week Strength and Conditioning Programme
Player history and stats
The programme has been designed for a professional football (soccer) player to return from a left grade 2 adductor magnus tear whilst striking the ball in a competitive game. The player has been cleared through the club doctor and his physio to take part in the programme. The player is currently 6 weeks post injury with no complications throughout his rehabilitation. The aim of the programme will be to return the player to fully functioning professional football. This will be achieved by rebuilding cardio vascular fitness specific to football, increase strength and flexibility to ensure the working muscles tuned for the demands of the modern game and speed, agility and quickness training to ensure the players tempo and coordination are fully functional to last a full game whilst reducing the early onset of fatigue.
Player stats
29 years old with a 10 year history of professional football clubs. The player is left footed and plays as a left wing back. He has strained this particular muscle group previous to this 2-3 seasons ago.
Needs analysis of football
Football (soccer) is possibly the most widely followed sport on the planet and can generate millions of pounds for the top players in the world. With such high wages and international stardom for both players and clubs, there is a pressure on coaches and staff to play their strongest teams, sometimes asking too much from players physiologically.
In order to design Strength and Conditioning programmes, it is firstly important to look at the content of a game of football and then allow it to be specified to each individual player. Although players may play in similar positions no two players and physiologically the same.
Football is a high intensity, long lasting intermittent exercise, which is split in to 2
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