Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team. The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in 
- sport-specific demands analysis, 
- work capacity enhancements,
- movement skills development,
- long- and short-term training program progressions, and
- rest and regeneration techniques. Athletic Development explains what works, what doesn't, and why. Gambetta's no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competitive season and reflect his work at the highest echelons of sport. Merging principles of anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology with sports conditioning applications and four decades of professional practice, this is the definitive guide to performance-enhancing training.

Athletic Development: The Art & Science of Functional Sports Conditioning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gambetta, Vern

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Join the ranks of so many that are coming BACK to this outstanding training method! Med Ball training is an effective, safe and relatively inexpensive way to train! Can be used for general physical preparation or adapted to specifically imitate various sport movements. Appropriate to all levels of ability and development from the beginner to the elite athlete, male or female. Excellent for the young developing athlete, as well! Use it in all training environments, in large group situations or solo. This book demonstrates over 100 medicine ball exercises, drills, teaching progressions and specific workouts for different sports. Easy to follow illustrations.

The Complete Guide to Medicine Ball Training

Odgers, Steve

Gambetta Sports Training Syste

A comprehensive view of Vern Gambetta’s philosophies and theories behind the proven and successful techniques used in all of the GSTS services, programs/seminars, and products. Do not expect pat conventional wisdom from this compilation of Vern’s published articles! Vern thinks “outside the box”. The information represents a synergy of Vern’s own interpretation of sport science research and his practical coaching experience. The result is a book that covers virtually every major aspect of training from planning, to rest, to testing. Find out why the Gambetta Method is so successful in training speed, plyos, balance, functional strength, explosive power, agility, core training, periodization, training the young athlete, planning for peak performance and assembling a performance team.

The Gambetta Method: Common Sense Training for Athletic Performance

Sports & Outdoors

Training

Gambetta Sports Training System

--the DEFINITIVE plan laid out in a systematic approach for developing optimum soccer speed. You will learn a step-by-step progressive drill system with planned specific workouts for all players from youth, through the developing player to the elite player. Learn how to improve all aspects of successful winning soccer: 
 running mechanics, first step quickness, overall agility, balance and coordination, ability to accelerate, speed of decision making, soccer speed. 
You will be able to integrate all aspects of speed into your existing training program! SPEED WINS!.

Soccer Speed

Soccer

Gambetta Sports Training Systems

A super 2nd edition of Vern's highly popular Gambetta Method book is now available! This new 140 page edition contains 19 more chapters--chock-full of practical &amp; easy to implement athletic performance training and rehabilitation information, ideas, techniques and methods. The new Gambetta Method covers a comprehensive view of Vern's philosophies and theories behind the proven and successful techniques used in all of the Gambetta Sports Training Systems services, programs/seminars, and products. Do not expect pat conventional wisdom from this compilation of Vern’s published articles! Vern thinks "outside the box". The information represents a synergy of Vern’s own interpretation of sport science research and his practical coaching experience. The result is a book that covers virtually every major aspect of training from planning, to rest, to testing. Find out why the Gambetta Method is so successful in training speed, plyometrics, balance, functional strength, explosive power, agility, core training, periodization, assessing athletic qualities, training the young athlete, planning for peak performance and assembling a performance team. Whether you are a coach, athletic trainer, physical therapist or athlete, this new edition of The Gambetta Method will be a valuable and much referred to source for optimum athletic performance enhancement and rehabilitation!

The Gambetta Method (2nd edition): Common Sense Training for Athletic Performance