By making your training units more diverse, you can increase the players’ motivation, since you consistently offer new approaches to improve and refine familiar movement sequences. In this book, you will find inspiring exercises you can apply during each phase of your everyday team handball training – from warm-up and goalkeeper warm-up shooting to the common contents of the main phase and the closing games. Each exercise is illustrated and described in an easy, comprehensible manner. Specific notes give you tips on what you need to be aware of. This book deals with the following key subjects: Warm-up: - Basic warm-up - Short warm-up games - Sprint contests - Coordination - Ball familiarization - Goalkeeper warm-up shooting Basic exercises, basic play, and target play: - Offense/series of shots - General offense - Fast throw-off - 1st and 2nd wave - Defensive action - Closing games Endurance At the end of this book, you will find an entire methodological training unit. The objective of this training unit is to improve shooting and quick decision-making under pressure. This reference book contains 75 individual exercises.

High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today’s athletes. High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby. Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas: • Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training. • Translate strength into speed. • Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power. • Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season. • Minimise the interference effect. • Design energy-specific performance programmes. Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.

This is a complete handbook dealing with the basic principles of goal-keeping technique and the planning of training sessions; it also includes a large number of exercises to help coaches train their keepers to identify and correct the most common mistakes.

Soccer fans around the world adore the offensive style of play based on fast passing combinations, spectacular dribblings, and the art of beautifully shot goals. The question regarding this style of game is how to coach your team to embrace fast attacking soccer. How do you shape your training to cover all the technical and tactical basics? Peter ......

An all-encompassing look at the penalty kick, soccer’s all-or-nothing play—its legendary moments and the secrets to its success No stretch of grass has been the site of more glory or heartbreak in the world of sports than the few dozen paces between goalkeeper and penalty kicker in soccer. In theory, it’s simple: place the ball beyond a single defender and secure a place in history. But once the chosen players make the lonely march from their respective sides of the pitch, everything changes, all bets are off, and anything can happen. Drawing from the hard-won lessons of legendary games, in-depth statistical analysis, expert opinion, and the firsthand experience of coaches and players from around the world, journalist Ben Lyttleton offers insight into the diverse attitudes, tactics, and techniques that separate success from failure in one of the highest-pressure situations sports has to offer.

The Strong Female Athlete is an evidence-based and experience-based text with a fresh, novel approach for youth female athletes to improve speed, reduce injury, and increase strength. In this exuberant body of work, Erica Suter gives a deep understanding of female athlete growth and maturation, anatomy and physiology, nutritional needs, menstrual cycle considerations, and performance training progressions. She presents the science, but in a way that is readable and fun for coaches, parents, and young girls. This is way easier to read than a scientific study! The final chapters discuss mental training and how female athletes can improve confidence, and overcome challenges from sports and life.

A very good goalkeeper makes a good team as a perfect team. Handball goalkeeper plays in a team but he is totaly a team itself. As a matter of fact, the game takes place in the form of a duel between the shooter and the goalkeeper. Every duel with the shooter is a new test and a new challenge. The task of the players is to help the goalkeeper as much as possible in this duel. The aim of the whole team is to block the opponent's shots. The only goal of the goalkeeper is to block the opponent's shots. All coaches agree that the most important player in the team is the goalkeeper. But they don't have enough time to train them. I hope this situation will be changed. However, whether or not we give good training, there will absolutely no changing in the role of goalkeepers, in the game. Their success or failure will certainly affect the result of the game. Although he is a member of the team, we need to know that the process of training of goalkeepers who have a different responsibility is a very difficult and never-ending process. A goalkeeper may be the best in the world in his 20s, while he must have a very good education until he is in his 30s to be the best in the world. I will try to convey my experiences to train or prepare a good goalkeeper in this book. It is very really cool to be a goalkeeper. Let's make sure that our goalkeepers enjoy this job.