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The Complete Guide to Strength and Conditioning Training

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The Complete Guide to Strength and Conditioning Training

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The essential guide to strength and conditioning training for anyone delivering targeted exercise programmes

This comprehensive manual offers practical tips for planning, delivering and reviewing a range of strength and conditioning exercise programmes for all ages and abilities. Learn what exercises and testing methods are required to develop your client's performance in areas such as strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, movement competency and more. It includes the latest advice on:

- The fundamentals of strength and conditioning
- Client consultations
- Training methods and sample programmes
- Testing the components of fitness
- Nutrition for strength and conditioning
- Strategies for fatigue, recovery and motivation.

With access to video demonstrations of progressive exercises, this is the ultimate reference book for strength and conditioning practitioners as well as for current and prospective coaches from all sporting backgrounds (from grass roots level to elite). It's also ideal reading for anyone studying sports and health-related exercise courses in schools, colleges and universities.

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Table of Contents

Introducing strength and conditioning

Part 1: Client consultation
1. Screening
2. Needs analysis
3. Goal setting

Part 2: The fundamentals of strength and conditioning
4. The components and principles of fitness
5. Aerobic endurance
6. Anaerobic endurance
7. Stabilisation
8. Muscular strength and endurance
9. Speed
10. Power
11. Agility
12. Flexibility
13. Body composition

Part 3: Testing the components of fitness
14. Performance assessment
15. Aerobic endurance testing
16. Anaerobic endurance testing
17. Stabilisation testing
18. Muscular strength and endurance testing
19. Speed testing
20. Power testing
21. Agility testing
22. Flexibility testing
23. Body composition testing

Part 4: General training strategies
24. Manipulation of training variables
25. Fatigue and recovery strategies
26. Practitioner skills
27. Motivation
28. Legal and ethical considerations

Part 5: Nutrition for strength and conditioning
29. Nutrients
30. Nutritional deficiencies
31. Energy balance

Appendices
Glossary
References
Acknowledgements
Index

Product details

Published 29 Jan 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 9781399421348
Imprint Bloomsbury Sport
Illustrations Black and white photographs throughout
Series Complete Guides
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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