Product Description

Add power, speed, and agility to your game plan! 52-Week Football Training takes the guesswork out of workouts and ensures players are in peak condition each season and game.

Daily workouts are presented for each week of the year and include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The training plan conforms well to both high school and college calendars and organizes workouts into six sequential phases:
• Postseason
• Winter
• Spring
• Early summer
• Preseason
• In-season

Conditioning coach Ben Cook, who has worked with 27 players who went on to the NFL, presents a full menu of on-field and off-field drills and exercises to develop flexibility, strength, power, speed, and agility. The book includes more than 160 photos showing correct technique and nearly 200 exercises and drills.

Be ready to perform at your best. 52-Week Football Training will help get any team and player ready to excel on every down.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #285382 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 245 pages

Card catalog description
"52-Week Football Training takes the guesswork out of workouts and ensures players are in peak condition each season and game."--BOOK JACKET. "Daily workouts are presented for each week of the year and include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The training plan conforms well to both high school and college calendars and organizes workouts into six sequential phases: postseason, winter, spring, early summer, preseason, and in-season."--BOOK JACKET. "Conditioning coach Ben Cook, who has worked with 27 players who went on to the NFL, presents a full menu of on-field and off-field drills and exercises to develop flexibility, strength, power, speed, and agility. The book includes more than 160 photos showing correct technique and nearly 200 exercises and drills."--BOOK JACKET.

From the Publisher
“Ben has compiled a complete recipe for the ambitious student athlete. The text is easily digestible and leaves the reader with only one task—to start working! The exercises are intense and challenging, even for the professional athlete. Ben helped me to prepare for the mental and physical demands of college and professional football. I believe his plan could do the same for other aspiring student athletes.”

William Henderson Green Bay Packers Starting Fullback

From the Author
I feel that this book is unique in that it provides such an extensive workout plan. As I grew up and bought magazines and books on the subject of exercise and workout design. I wanted someone to lay a complete plan of success before me, in a clear and complete manner. Of course I never found that, instead I would find books that suggested exercises, and various set and rep etition schemes, but none provided a yearly step by step plan. 52-Week Foot ball Training was designed for the serious aspiring football athlete whose main concern was focusing on the sport of football. Most athletes do not have time to research in depth the science of exercise and design their own strength and conditioning plan. Instead their available time should be spent focusing on the sport itself and their own academic endeavors. For this reason I wanted to provide to the athlete a complete plan. Now all the guesswork is eliminated, and all that is left, is to succeed. I planned the workouts to parallel a collegiate academic and sports calendar, in hopes of providing the high school athlete with a taste of what is expected at the Division I level of collegiate football strength and conditioning. I truly hope that this book helps strengthen you body to it's maximum potential, and that you become the best athlete that you can be.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely the Best
I have only been doing this program for a little while, and it is as great as everyone says it is. Someone earlier said it is great for 16-45 year olds, but Im about to turn 15 and it works great for me. It would also work great for someone over 45, as their are at leat 10 different exercises for each body part to choose from. I suggest you stop whatever program you may be doing right now and try this one, I have looked into numerous other programs and attended camps and this is by far the best program I've found do far.

Year round training
I'm a woman in training for the IWFL (yes, there is women's football; check out californiaquakefootball.com.) This book has helped my training immensely. It covers just about everything. All lifts are expressed as a percentage of your maximum single-repetition weight (e.g., 8 x 60%)--which means I can use it as easily as the big boys. Bring a calculator to the gym, or else sit down and figure out the numbers beforehand, unless you are one of those people that can instantly calculate 60% of 130 to the nearest 5... well, you get the idea...

Buy this book & be bigger, stronger, faster. What else do you want?

Phenomenal
This book provides a great training plan for players aged 16 to 45. Very comprehensive, easy to use and well illustrated. Noticed results within 6 weeks. Includes not only weight and conditioning training, but also drills to improve agility, foot speed and balance. This reference can serve as the basis for designing a team or individual training program for any level of play.