52-Week Football Training [Paperback]

Ben Cook (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 1999

Whether you're a coach looking for a proven training plan or a serious player wanting to excel, 52-Week Football Training provides the conditioning plan you need to maximize football-specific physical development and motivation. Players can gain the perfect balance of power, speed, and agility by implementing this proven in-season and off-season training plan.

Daily workouts are presented for each week of the year and include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. Included are a full menu of on-field and off-field drills and exercises to develop flexibility, strength, power, speed, and agility.

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 that went on to the NFL, includes more than 160 photos showing correct technique and nearly 200 exercises and drills. 52-Week Football Training will help get any team and player ready to excel on every down.

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"""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
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"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

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics (August 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736000852
• ISBN-13: 978-0736000857
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are You Ready?, July 30, 2000

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Hit or be Hit (Canton, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 52-Week Football Training (Paperback)

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.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best book for football trainig i ever read, November 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 52-Week Football Training (Paperback)

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!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One's All That, January 20, 2000

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JTimmons (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 52-Week Football Training (Paperback)

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!