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: #195008 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780736000857
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review

"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 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

Are You Ready?
Listen. This book is it. Drop any program you are on and follow this book. It involves everything from weight training to proper conditioning and even adds plyometrics for the complete combination of power, strenght, speed, agility, and stamina. I've never gained more mass and strength in one year in my entire life. This tells you exactly what to do and when to do it. This is so intense I recommend finding a mentor or a lifting partner to follow this with you to keep motivated. If football is your life like it is mine, buy this and you will become a better athlete. Period.

best book for football trainig i ever read
This book is awesome, it is very detailed and goes along great w/my school schedule.Workouts are easy to understand. He made the workouts short and simple so your spending your whole day wondering how to excel football. Ben Cook gives it to straight and simple on how to be the best you can at football.Only one thing wrong he should've got more focused on nutrtion, alot of kids that start training dont know anything about training , and nutrtion. The training aspect in this book is great, but was looking for help in nutrition too, but overall book is excellent!

This One's All That
Man, I can tell you, if you what a complete workout plan, this one's all that and more. Especially the first two weeks of the off-season, resistance training workouts, if you go maximally through those workouts like Ben Cook describes, you are going to be left at the end having to have some one else take your shirt off. I mean you are all messed up, but in a good way. This book was exactly what I needed. I'm on week 7 right now, (I started at the end of my high school football season) and I already feel bigger and stronger. Mr. Cook says that consistency is the key, and so far I havn't missed a workout. It seems to really be paying off I think. It'll pay off for you too I'll bet. GET THIS BOOK!