This textbook remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters, including Neuromuscular Training, and dedicated chapters exploring injury prevention and the specific injury risks for different team sports. Bridging the traditional gap between sports science research and practice in the field, each chapter features guidelines for evidence-based best practice, as well as recommendations for approaches to physical preparation to meet the specific needs of team sports players. Fully revised and updated throughout, the new edition also includes the addition of over two hundred new references from the research literature in the field and an appendix that provides detailed examples of training programmes for a range of team sports. Illustrated throughout, it is essential reading for all serious students of strength and conditioning, and for any practitioner seeking to extend their professional practice.

1. Principles of Specificity and Transfer of Training Effects 2. Assessing Physiological and Physical Performance Parameters 3. Neuromuscular Training 4. Metabolic Conditioning 5. Strength Training 6. Power Development and Plyometric Training 7. Sports Speed and Agility Development 8. Lumbopelvic 'Core' Stability 9. Training for Injury Prevention - Identifying Risk Factors 10. Injury Prevention - Specific Training Interventions 11. Planning and Scheduling - Periodisation of Training 12. Physical Preparation for Youth Sports