• Author: Adam Owen PhD
• Pages:116 Pages
• Drills: 50 Practices
• Level: U7-PRO

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50 Practices | Youth to Pro | Training Week | Football Periodization

Warm Ups from a World Leading High Performance Expert to Maximise the Performance of Your Players and Team

Following the success of his best-selling book, "Football Periodization to Maximise Performance," and his unparalleled expertise in football science and performance coaching, Adam Owen PhD (High Performance Expert and UEFA Pro & A License Educator) now focuses on optimising the warm up phase of training for coaches at all levels.

Key Benefits of this Book for Coaches:

• Strategic Planning: Learn to plan engaging and progressively challenging warm up practices tailored to your team's needs.
• Targeted Preparation: Discover how to adapt warm ups for specific training days to prime players physically and mentally.
• Alignment with Objectives: Seamlessly integrate warm ups with session objectives, incorporating conditioning, technical skills, and mental readiness.
• Injury Prevention: Reduce the risk of injuries by using the correct warm up types and intensity for specific training days.
• Motivation and Performance: Keep players motivated and enhance individual and team performance.

Learn How to Improve Player/Team Performance:

• Maximise Warm Up Time: Make the most of the crucial 10-15 minutes with varied and effective warm up practices.
• Comprehensive Approach: Different types of warm ups for resistance, speed endurance, reaction, and pre-match activation are needed to address various aspects of player readiness.
• Physical Preparation: Prepare players for the physical demands of the session/game, including directional changes, sprints, and jumps.
• Long-Term Benefits: Encourage growth, physical adaptation, and sustained improvement suitable for all levels – from youth to professional.

Included Practice Examples:

• Resistance: "Crossfire" Passing, Agility, and Speed 4-Corners Technical Warm Up
• Speed Endurance: Progressive Overload Speed and Agility Exercises Circuit Training
• Reaction Speed: Passing and Reactions for Speed Work in a 4-Grid Warm Up
• Activation: Dynamic "Stop & Go" Speed Work with Changes of Direction Warm Up

About Adam Owen PhD

Credentials (Coaching / Academic)

• Combination UEFA Pro & A Licence Coach Educator for England FA
• UEFA Coach Educator for various other football federations
• UEFA Pro Licence
• PhD in Sport Science and Coaching

Football Roles

• High-Performance and Technical Advisor, KKS Lech Poznań
  
• Assistant Head Coach, Hibernian FC
  
• High-Performance Director and Technical Advisor, Seattle Sounders FC
  
• High-Performance Director and Assistant Coach, Hebei China Fortune FC
  
• Head Coach, KS Lechia Gdanśk, Poland
  
• Sport Science and Fitness Coach, Wales National Team
  
• Assistant Manager, FC Servette & Sheffield United FC
  
• Head of Performance, Rangers FC
  
• Head of Sport Science and Fitness, Sheffield Wednesday FC
  
• Head of Academy Performance and Technical Coach, Celtic FC
  
• Academy Head Coach, Wrexham FC
  
• Player, Wrexham FC