Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training allows the reader to discover the dynamic world of conditioned games, popularly known as “small-sided games.” This groundbreaking book unlocks the secrets to revolutionizing training dynamics, via comprehensive exploration of conditioned games, unveiling the unique characteristics that set conditioned games apart, and examines the impacts of manipulating task constraints on players’ acute responses and chronic adaptations. Coaches seeking to elevate their teams and achieve specific training objectives have long relied on these modified game formats. To address multiple coaching goals simultaneously, these games are comprehensive exercises that require a thorough understanding of how to design them, when to design them, and why to design them.
This book is the first to offer a dual-purpose resource: a robust theoretical foundation detailing how task constraints impact team sports players, then moving to provide examples for a number of major team sports, demonstrating how to implement conditioned games and incorporate them into a weekly training schedule. This new, cutting-edge volume is not just about theory; it’s also a practical guide that bridges the gap between research evidence and real-world applications. Whether you’re a student or an academic in the field of sport coaching and performance, or a practicing coach looking to transform your approach, Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training serves as a roadmap to incorporating conditioned games and unlocking the full potential of your training activities to elevate your coaching game and bring a new dimension to your team’s performance.
Edited by:
Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781032829227
ISBN 10: 1032829222
Series: Routledge Research in Sports Coaching
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 23 April 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Section 1: Research Foundations Underlying Conditioned Games in Team Sports Chapter 1: Conditioned Games: Foundations, Description, And Types Chapter 2: Acute Psychophysiological, Locomotor and Mechanical Responses to Conditioned Games Chapter 3: Acute Technical, Tactical and Decision-Making Responses to Conditioned Games Chapter 4: Chronic Adaptations to Conditioned Games Chapter 5: Pedagogical And Didactical Aspects Related to Conditioned Games Chapter 6: Advantages And Drawbacks of Conditioned Games Section 2. From Theory to Practice: Implementing Conditioned Game in Real-World Scenarios Chapter 7. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Soccer Training Chapter 8. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Basketball Training Chapter 9. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Rugby Training Chapter 10. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Handball Training Chapter 11. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Futsal Training Chapter 12. Designing And Implementing Conditioned Games in Volleyball Training References Index
Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente is an associate professor at Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer de Melgaço at IPVC, Portugal. His research focuses specifically on the influence and the application of small-sided and conditioned games as a specific methodology to improve the sports training in team sports. In addition, he has also been developing a set of technological metrics applied to sports analysis to identify the collective organization of team sports and to identify the individual variables of performance in match and in training context.
