Main description:

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries.

Warm-up in Football provides scientific evidence for the effect of warming up and describes how performance is closely related to muscle temperature. Furthermore, the book explains how the right warm-up prior to a match and at halftime improves the outcome in football.

This book provides a basic understanding of the value of warming up and presents a significant number of warm-up programs that can be used whether you are training professional, amateur or youth players. The warm-up programs and exercises are tailored to different training and match situations both on and off the pitch.

Highlights from the book include:

* New, inspiring and effective ways of warm-up for training.

* Warm-up programs before matches.

* Warm-up programs to improve performance at the start of the second half.

Warm-up in Football is critical reading for all who have an interest in the coaching and physiology of football.

Contents:

Part 1: Characteristics of Warm-up

1. Effect of Warm-up

2. Principles of Warm-up

3. Warm-up of Female Players

4. Warm-up of Youth Players

Part 2: Warm-up for Training and Testing

5. Preparation for Training

6. Warm-up without the Ball

7. Warm-up with the Ball

8. Warm-up Games

9. Warm-up for Speed and Power Training

10. Warm-up for Testing

Part 3: Match Preparation

11. Warm-up for Match

12. Re-warm-up at Half-time and before Extra Time

13. Warm-up of Substitutes