40 Essential Soccer Stretches

40 Essential Soccer Stretches
Author: Fiona Leard
Publisher: Beyond Fitness and Yoga
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Soccer
ISBN: 9780987533845

Many professional footballers are currently using yoga to maintain their bodies for elite performance. This book gives you the yoga warm-up and cool-down routines used by players to improve flexibility, enhance circulation, increase joint mobility and assist recovery. The stretches have been adapted from The Yoga Edge: Techniques to Maximize Your Soccer Game, and are a simple and effective way to help you perform at your best. In the foreword, Australian football legend John Aloisi shares his experience with yoga and the benefits he gained during his playing career. This must-have soccer-specific stretching book is suitable for all ages and fitness levels.

Soccer Conditioning

Soccer Conditioning
Author: Simon Thadani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1408109581

Soccer conditioning is aimed at managers and coaches of soccer teams from semi-professional through to Sunday League, including youth and children's teams. Including: - Principles of conditioning, speed and strength development - Fitness requirements for specific positions and formations - Planning the season - Developing individual and team programmes - Conditioning drills - How to train young players This book gives detailed and accessible guidance on how to introduce fitness and conditioning routines into training to support and improve soccer performance.

The Essential Guide to Stretching

The Essential Guide to Stretching
Author: Chrissie Gallagher-Mundy
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780517887752

Books devoted to stretching for health and flexibility are proving to be perennially popular. The Essential Guide to Stretching, with its colorful layout, specially commissioned photos, and affordable price, will be the most appealing of all. 120 color photos.

Anatomy and 100 Essential Stretching Exercises

Anatomy and 100 Essential Stretching Exercises
Author: Guillermo Seijas Albir
Publisher: Barrons Educational Services
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1438006179

Barron's Anatomy and 100 Essential Stretching Exercises helps you improve your flexibility, overcome physical ailments, and increase your overall sense of well-being. This comprehensive guide features over 100 stretching exercises to help you improve your range of motion, decrease discomfort, and prevent injuries. Easy-to-understand exercises are clearly illustrated and contain simple, precise instructions for the proper way to stretch every part of your body. This guide includes: Effective exercises for athletes, non-athletes, and those searching for pain relief associated with injuries Step-by-step methods for the most effective exercise routines Anatomical descriptions of the parts of the body and the muscles being worked Photographic representations of each exercise, with detailed illustrations of the primary and secondary muscles Explanatory text that ensures correct techniques and proper safety precautions The numbers of repetitions needed depending on fitness levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and the physiological benefits of each exercise A quick reference guide to the most beneficial stretches for specific ailments, and more

Essential Soccer Skills

Essential Soccer Skills
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0756673933

Essential Soccer Skills progresses from beginner basics to advanced techniques, featuring illustrated sequences on how to learn and master key skills, and tips on how to improve your overall form. Essential Soccer Skills covers everything from the basics and rules of the game to the types of players--goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, attackers--to skills and team tactics like stepovers, heading, and volleying. Essential Soccer Skills is the go-to guide for anyone interested in learning more about soccer and becoming a better player.

Dr. Rob's Guide to Raising Fit Kids

Dr. Rob's Guide to Raising Fit Kids
Author: Robert S. Gotlin
Publisher: DiaMedica Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-07-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0979356431

Written for parents concerned about their children's overall fitness, Dr. Rob's Fitness Guide for Kids addresses the importance of both food and physical activity in keeping children healthy. Gotlin sees sports, with its emphasis on playing by the rules, being a good teammate, winning and losing with grace, and working toward a common goal, as an essential route to physical, psychological, and social health. This book helps parents choose a sport or activity in which their child can find comfort and confidence. In addition to outlining the benefits of various team and individual sports, Gotlin provides detailed information about the equipment needed, safety issues, and how to create a supportive environment for young athletes. Also included are exercises developed specifically for children, age-appropriate fitness and calorie guidelines, and delicious, dietician-developed meal plans and sport-specific menus that instill a lifetime of good eating habits.

An Insider's Guide to Soccer

An Insider's Guide to Soccer
Author: Brian Wingate
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1477785930

Whatever you know the sport as—soccer, fútbol, football, or association football—it is the world’s most popular team sport. And the World Cup, played every four years, is the world’s most popular sporting event. But that’s on the global stage. As everyone who plays or watches soccer knows, sometimes the real action and excitement can be found on the local field or pitch. This concise guide is a useful tool for those interested in playing (or just learning about) the game—including its earliest days of play, up-to-date descriptions of the various positions, clear explanations of the sometimes-confusing rules of play, and much more.

Basic Soccer

Basic Soccer
Author: George Ford
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1982
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Stretching

Stretching
Author: Stephanie Richards
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005-07-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0756641888

Discover the key to staying fit and supple with this easy-to-do stretching program. Targeted warm-up and cool-down stretches prevent sports injuries, while others effectively counter aches and pains, bad posture, andthe effects of aging. An added benefit is ease: this practical stretching program fits effortlessly into a busy life. The stress-free way to stay supple, keep fit and exercise safely