Football Performance II: New Goals for Success

The beautiful game is played in over 200 countries worldwide. The last FIFA World Cup boasted viewing figures of 715 million people making it far and away the most popular sporting event in human history ever. FIFA estimates that more than 300 million people now play football worldwide, and over a billion regularly watch it on TV. But, until now, there has been a massive gulf between the training know-how and match-winning secrets used by the professional few and those available to the rest of us. Not surprisingly, more scientific research than ever is being focused on the game. After all, with your average UK Premiership footballer taking home a basic annual salary of £640,000, and transfer fees for leading players now running high into millions, there s more pressure than ever to perform. But, until know, the benefits of this research has been kept as the closely-guarded secret of an elite few. Professional club managers, and national football governing bodies, are desperate to gain a performance advantage over their opponents. In the last eighteen months alone a number of important research projects have been conducted in the UK, France and elsewhere and their findings circulated to those in the know . They contain invaluable (but costly) insights into football training and conditioning techniques, injury prevention and rehabilitation, match-day nutrition, and more. Finally you can read all about these new performance secrets in our brand new football special report -- Football Performance II: new goals for success. And you won't need to invest thousands of pounds into a team of sports science researchers! This latest addition to our Peak Performance series of practical workbooks is an essential successor to our first football workbook, published early last year. That s because you get privileged access to cutting-edge conditioning and training techniques brand new training, sports nutrition and injury prevention techniques that come directly to you from the very latest sport science studies. All 108 pages of Football Performance II: new goals for success are made available for the very first time to those outside the sports science community and the football community s management and coaching elite. You can be the first to benefit from them, today! Here are just some of the ground-breaking facts you ll learn in this explosive report: Essential Fitness Secrets Discover the best way to achieve optimal pre-season fitness while ensuring you remain mentally fresh for all the games to come. New Hydration Research We reveal just how much liquid you should be taking in at half-time. Premiership Performance Boosters Do you know which half-time supplement can ensure you rebuild your reserves of stamina and restore your levels of concentration? Top Technique Tips Find out the simple throw-in technique that can add an extra 10% to your throwing length. Power, Pin-Point Passing and Sharp Shooting Learn the best way to build kicking speed without sacrificing accuracy. Quick Kit Fixes The professionals show you how to break in a pair of brand-new football boots when you haven t got any time to waste Injury Disasters and How To Avoid Them Recent research zones in on the two football moves which are responsible for most ACL knee injuries on the field and explains how you can train players to minimise the injury-risk. Winning Team Tactics Listen to the killer communication strategy that can motivate any team at half-time to come back from behind.

Football Performance II is an interesting collection of topical articles related to the sports science aspects of football. It is extremely readable, with a less formal tone than the scientific publications upon which these articles are based. This lack of stuffiness makes Football Performance II extremely accessible and relevant to coaches and team support staff at all levels of football. --David Wales, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Arsenal FC