Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

1 Conditioned games: foundations, description, and types

FILIPE MANUEL BATISTA CLEMENTE, GRÉGORY HALLÉ PETIOT, AND DIOGO COUTINHO

2 Acute psychophysiological, locomotor, and mechanical responses to varied conditioned games? constraints

DANIEL CASTILLO, RODRIGO AQUINO, AND LUIZ HENRIQUE PALUCCI VIEIRA

3 Acute technical, tactical, and decision-making responses to conditioned games in soccer

ISRAEL TEOLDO, GUILHERME MACHADO, GUILHERME OLIVEIRA, AND GIBSON PRAÇA

4 Chronic adaptations to conditioned games

FILIPE MANUEL BATISTA CLEMENTE, JAVIER SÁNCHEZ-SÁNCHEZ, PAWEŁ CHMURA, AND ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ-FERNÁNDEZ

5 Pedagogical and didactical aspects related to conditioned games

JO?O CLÁUDIO MACHADO, LUCAS LEONARDO, AND TATHYANE KRAHENBÜHL

6 Advantages and drawbacks of conditioned games

JOSÉ AFONSO AND HUGO SARMENTO

7 Designing and implementing conditioned games in soccer training

DIOGO COUTINHO, RUI MIGUEL SILVA, AND ALIREZA RABBANI

8 Designing and implementing conditioned games in basketball training

SARAH BREDT, JULIANA TORRES, JUAN MORALES, AND GIBSON PRAÇA

9 Designing and implementing conditioned games in rugby training

KOEN WINTERSHOVEN, TRAVIS MCMASTER, AND MARTYN BEAVEN

10 Designing and implementing conditioned games in handball training

ANTONIO DELLO IACONO, DRAGAN ĐUKIĆ, AND MARCO CARDINALE

11 Designing and implementing conditioned games in futsal training

BRUNO TRAVASSOS, JO?O NUNO RIBEIRO, AND SÉRGIO GOMES

12 Designing and implementing conditioned games in volleyball training

HENRIQUE DE OLIVEIRA CASTRO AND GUSTAVO DE CONTI TEIXEIRA COSTA