Product Description

Football is a dynamic, explosive sport that demands a wide range of skills - multi-directional, explosive acceleration, lightning-quick reactions and the ability to cover ground economically and quickly. SAQ Football is a cutting-edge training system that has been developed over many years by some of the world's leading coaches and players, and includes drills, programmes and techniques to improve speed, agility and acceleration. Fully updated to include all the latest research, and illustrated throughout with new photographs and artwork, its complete conditioning programme will help players at all levels to develop and improve their game. Starting with the basic techniques, it moves on to football- specific movement patterns and position-specific work to provide an invaluable resource no player or coach should be without.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73018 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Alan Pearson is Managing Director of SAQ(r) International, one of the world's most highly respected sports training consultancies, and has worked with elite clubs and athletes throughout the world of sport.

Customer Reviews

Educational
I have been using SAQ for about 3 months. I found the book both informative & interesting. I now use dynamic flex warm ups before every session or game. Work on co-ordination & fast feet has shown results in 2/3 weeks.

The book is generally clear & concise where there is any doubt on form or technique the people at SAQ are more than willing to help & are only a phone call away.

Good warm-up programme, and rehab adaptability for injuries.
This is a good book to have in your library if you are a soccer manager, coach, trainer or player.
I am none of these, except for the odd recreational game of 5-a-sides, but I am a Sports Therapist who deals with professional and semi-professional football players and their affected injuries. From my point of veiw, this book is of specific interest, as I can use and adapt it to rehabilitate my injured players to suit there playing position and particular football duties, and to suit there own specific injury.
The warm-up programmmes and soccer drills are well designed, described and illustrated, and are easily adapted to suit my rehab perscriptions, and also to keep the coaches busy and interested in their preparation, and get the players fit and excited at trainig sessions.
A note of warning though, if you buy this book, don,t lend it to coaches or players with young children, who might leave it lying around unattended. It makes a lovely colouring-in book for the little budding artists.

Requires lots of equipment
I play for an U16 team and wanted to increase my speed. The book has a number of very cleverly thought out and interesting drills but you need so much equipment to do them. Through the whole book there was only about 6-8 drills you can do without the equipment which included some basic stuff that can be bought easily such as ladders, mini hurdles and cones but some of the stuff needed I hadn't even heard of e.g. flexi cord, overspeed tow rope, a parachute, etc.
So I would give this book 4/5 starts if you belonged to a professional club that had access to numerous amounts of complicated equipment but if you belong to an amateur club I would recommend looking elsewhere.