Football Fitness

30-Minute Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer is exactly what the title promises: the essential, unvarnished, deeply practical primer for anyone thrust—willingly or otherwise—into the chaotic, beautiful world of coaching kids’ soccer. Whether you're a parent wrangled into the role, a teacher doing double-duty, or a sports veteran adjusting to the unpredictable logic of under-10s, this book gives you what you actually need. No fluff. No empty platitudes. Just direct, field-tested advice. In thirty densely packed minutes (give or take), you'll get a crash course in how to run a practice that...

In this new edition of The TB12 Method, Tom Brady further explains and details the revolutionary training, conditioning, and wellness system that has kept him atop the NFL at an age when most players are deep into retirement. Brady - along with the expert Body Coaches at TB12, the performance lifestyle brand he cofounded in 2013 with Alex Guerrero - explain the principles and philosophies of pliability, a paradigm-shifting fitness concept that focuses on a more natural, healthier way of exercising, training, and living.

Soccer is not chaos. It is not merely running, kicking, or chasing the ball. It is a structured contest of territory, timing, deception, and willpower. And nowhere is this clearer than when we reinterpret the world’s most beloved sport through the timeless strategic lens of The Art of War. In The Art of War for Soccer: Strategy, Tactics, and Psychology on the Modern Pitch, the game is recast as a battle of space, rhythm, and resilience, where victory belongs not just to the fastest or most talented but to those who prepare most deeply and adapt most intelligently. Drawing on parallels ...

Forget charisma. Forget grit. Forget every locker-room cliché wrapped in nationalism, testosterone, and nostalgia. Football Relationism is not a book about heroes or heart—it is a brutal, forensic, system-level dissection of the sport we still dare to call “the beautiful game.” If traditional football thought in terms of players, moments, and formations, this book argues that the future belongs to relations: the interdependencies between zones, the mutual reading of intention, the invisible threads that connect one movement to the next. Told through the clipped, tactical voice of a ...

Want to learn the number one thing holding you back from scoring more goals? Have you ever wanted to know the secrets to easily make a team in tryouts? Ever wonder why you get nervous before a tryout? Want to become the fastest player on your team? This audiobook lays out step-by-step what you should work on and the most important keys to being able to perform. This audiobook provides the structure to ensure that you are not just getting a little information in one spot and some knowledge in another without being able to understand the entire picture of how it all works together.

In a sport obsessed with goals, assists, and last touches, The Third Man Is God peels back the veil on football’s most invisible and indispensable figure: the player who doesn’t receive the ball, yet shapes every sequence. Written with clinical detail and a philosopher’s edge, this book confronts the sacred mythologies of the modern game—the cult of the playmaker, the tyranny of the highlight, the false security of patterns—and reveals how the real architecture of success is built not through possession, but through timing, trust, and ghost movement. This isn’t another tactics ...

Mastering the Pitch: The Soccer Coaching Bible is an all-encompassing guide to soccer strategy that will captivate players, coaches, and enthusiasts at all levels. This comprehensive book takes readers on an exciting journey through the history of soccer in America, from its humble beginnings to the establishment of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the rise of women's soccer, providing valuable insights into the sport's evolution. The book's focal point is Soccer Strategy prowess, with extensive coverage of 11v11 and 9v9 soccer formations and tactics. Coaches and players will find a treasure ...

As the coach, you are the leader of the team and should lead by example. The harder you work, the harder your team will work. There is not a perfect way to coach and it normally takes time to find the style that works best for you and motivates your players. This book will help you in that process. This book is not intended to be a complete guide on coaching because if you have ever coached, you realize that everything to know could not be contained in one book. It will help you become the coach that changes every game, the coach whose team every player wants to be on.

The Relationist Blueprint is a coaching manifesto for building teams that move with intelligence, connect in layers, and dominate through rhythm. Forget rigid positional systems. This book teaches you how to develop players who read each other, not just the playbook. From rondos that teach anticipation to constraint-led drills that sharpen timing, this is a blueprint for constructing footballers who don’t just run plays—they feel patterns. Designed for serious coaches at all levels, this book walks you through the core principles of relationist football: shared scanning, third-man ...

Horrified by the thought of breaking off his life-long love-affair with running, Richard Askwith began to think seriously about a question with profound implications for every enthusiastic runner: how can you keep running, happily and well, for the rest of your life—ideally, well into your nineties and beyond? Askwith's quest for the secrets of running longevity takes him on a long, mystifying journey: to laboratories and running tracks, cities and remote mountain villages, on several continents.

In an ideal world, you have an infinite amount of time and energy to work on your strength, power, speed, endurance, and flexibility. However, we both know that it is hard to always find the time needed to train. Therefore, this book reveals the few key ways to dramatically increase your speed in a short time. This book details the most important 20 percent of fitness to help you get 80 percent+ of the results. Also, this book discusses the one type of stretching that you are probably doing that is increasing your chances of becoming injured.

Become a Dynamo on The Soccer Field With our Comprehensive Step-by-Step Soccer Fitness Guide... ...Featuring Tips on all Aspects of Soccer Fitness Training, Including: Improve Your Stamina Do you suffer from fatigue late on in games? By following my personal regimes you will never again miss that late-shooting opportunity or fail to perform that last-minute sliding challenge because of a lack of energy. I will help you to improve your stamina so that you can maintain your performance right through to the final whistle. Become an Indestructible Soccer Force Using my personal regimes you will...

Are you a skilled soccer player who can't make it big? Is it because of your lack of physical and mental fitness? Soccer Fitness provides an excellent way to help with soccer fitness for players and coaches. It offers examples of ways in which players can enhance their endurance for playing soccer and looks at the kind of fitness specifically needed for playing soccer at the highest level.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and it is fun. There is only one problem. It is not entertaining enough for the world audience, and it could be so much more. In this book, Alan Philowitz has altered the rules of soccer to make it more competitive, athletic, and entertaining for audiences worldwide. This version of soccer permits 14 men on the field per team for 50% of the match, two goalies at times, alternative scoring, and options to field up to 12 men with no designated goalie. Once played, this version of soccer will be adopted and loved by football fans worldwide because...

This is not a feel-good guide. This is a 12-week technical war plan designed to take intermediate soccer players and turn them into the kind of unshakable, two-footed, chaos-proof operators who control games, punish mistakes, and finish cold. Forget the gimmicks. You won’t find tips on juggling tricks or vague mindset fluff here. What you’ll get is a day-by-day curriculum of discomfort. Touch refinement, pressure resistance, spatial intelligence, misdirection, and violent simplicity—broken down into brutal weekly themes, each followed by field-level chapters that strip away the polish...

Balancing soccer, school, family, eating healthy foods, and the many other things requiring your time can be difficult. Consuming food that is working against you can make it even more difficult to stay balanced and succeed. There is no such thing as a perfect diet, but there are definitely eating habits that will lift you to great heights and junk foods that will hold you back from taking your game to the next level.

From their humble beginnings to iconic victories on the global stage, Goal by Goal: The Rise of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT) charts the transformative journey of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT). Dive deep into the highs, lows, challenges, and successes of a team that not only revolutionized women's soccer but also pioneered change off the pitch. Discover the battles for equality, the evolution of their playing style, and the emergence of new stars carrying the legacy forward. This comprehensive account offers readers an inside look at the team's indomitable ...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour by The Secret Footballer. Since his first book was published in 2012, The Secret Footballer has been able to take the listener behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been or will ever be able to do. Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars, and five years on, he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start: The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour.

So many coaching books require complex equipment, copious resources, and fantastic facilities. In writing Practice Soccer at Home, we are seeking to offer a guide for those times when we train alone, in our backyard, with little more than a ball and our immediate environment.

Decades of fun and challenging trivia questions on the Green Bay Packers. Hey football fans, my name is Brandon Thompson. I'm a huge sports fanatic just like some of you. I grew up in a sport enthusiastic home where Sunday was always game day, no matter what the season! Today I want to share with you some amazing trivia that will test your knowledge and make you say “hum?” You can enjoy this time alone just you and the game or invite along a few friends for the challenge.