Total Training for Coaching Team Sports: A Self-Help Guide

The approach taken for training team sport athletes in this book differs from the traditional methods used by many coaches. This innovative and scientific approach to training the energy systems and developing speed, power, agility, quickness, and endurance is designed to help players surpass their current levels of physical and psychological development. In training for team sports one thing is certain – progress is impossible without scientific and methodological advances.

From head coaches wishing to learn more about model training, planning, and the physiological aspects of training to strength and conditioning coaches wanting to learn more about certain aspects of technical and tactical training, this book is for the serious coach of any team sport. Ultimately, the better your understanding of technical and tactical training, the greater your effectiveness in creating game- and position-specific drills and training methods to improve your players’ physical potential. A must for every team sport coach’s library!

Dr. Tudor O. Bompa, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Ontario, is regarded worldwide as the leading specialist in the areas of sport-specific training, coaching, and fitness theory, to which he has contributed several new concepts.

Dr. Bompa’s theories, especially his theories of planning/periodization; periodization of strength, power, speed, and endurance; periodization of fitness and bodybuilding; psychological periodization; and periodization of nutrition, have revolutionized training in most countries of the world.

Dr. Bompa has published 15 books (all best-sellers) translated into 18 languages. Most of these books are used as textbooks in universities, coaching institutions, certification programs, and continuing education courses in more than 180 countries. He has also published over a hundred research papers while at the same time making presentations in over 35 countries on topics such as training theory, planning/periodization, training methods, strength and power training, and specifics of training for team sports.

Tudor Bompa has been a very prolific coach as well. In only eight years of international coaching, his athletes have won 11 medals (4 gold) in Olympic Games and world championships. He is the only coach who has produced Olympic and world champions in two different sports—track and field and rowing. He has compiled training programs for professional teams including the St. Louis Blues NHL hockey team and the Argentinean national soccer team. Moreover, he has guided individual athletes to the highest athletic achievements.

In recognition of his contributions to the body of knowledge in training, fitness, and coaches’ education, Dr. Bompa has received 21 honors and awards, 18 of them internationally.