1st Edition

Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice

Edited By Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente Copyright 2025
218 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

JOÃO 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, JOÃO NUNO RIBEIRO, AND SÉRGIO GOMES

12 Designing and implementing conditioned games in volleyball training

HENRIQUE DE OLIVEIRA CASTRO AND GUSTAVO DE CONTI TEIXEIRA COSTA

Biography

Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente is an associate professor at Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer de Melgaço at IPVC, Portugal. His research focuses specifically on the influence and the application of small-sided and conditioned games as a specific methodology to improve the sports training in team sports. In addition, he has also been developing a set of technological metrics applied to sports analysis to identify the collective organization of team sports and to identify the individual variables of performance in match and in training context.