2nd Edition

Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning

Edited By Anthony Turner, Chris Bishop Copyright 2027
984 Pages 209 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning Second Edition provides invaluable programming insights specific to each sport and occupation. Readers are not only provided with the most-up to date research, but with coaching insights and experience, ensuring ecological validity, practical take-aways and ultimately, evidence-based practice. This handbook bridges the gap between the... Read more

1. What Is Strength and Conditioning?

Chris Bishop

 

2. Evidence-Based Practice in Strength and Conditioning

Anthony N. Turner

 

3. Undertaking A Needs Analysis for Sport

Chris Bishop

 

4. Data Analysis in High-Performance Sport: From Individual Monitoring to Team Benchmarking

Anthony Turner

 

5. Periodisation and Programming

G. Gregory Haff

 

6. PMS – Plan, Monitor, Strategise: An Evidence-Based Framework for Female Athlete Management

Debby Sargent, Yannik Guthardt and Ross Julian

 

7. Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes

Rhodri S. Lloyd, John M. Radnor, Sylvia Moeskops, Robert W. Meyers, Paul J. Read, and Jon L. Oliver

 

8. Masters Athletes

Hayley Legg and Bridgitte Swales

 

9. Practical Applications for Supporting Athletes with Impairments

Christina Langley, Mitchell Finlay, and Dawn O’Dowd

 

10. Strength and Conditioning for Men’s Soccer

Irineu Loturco, Lucas A. Pereira, and Rafael Grazioli

 

11. Strength and Conditioning for Youth Female Football Players 
Naomi Myhill, Kevin L. de Keijzer, Stephen McQuilliam, Wesley Fox, Christos Andreou, Benjamin Say, and Anthony Turner 

 

12. Strength And Conditioning for Men’s Rugby Union

Shaun J. McLaren

 

13. Strength and Conditioning for Women’s Rugby Union

Xiang Yao, Anthony Turner, and Chris Bishop

 

14. Strength and Conditioning for Rugby League

Cameron Owen, Sean Scantlebury, Ben Jones, and Kevin Till

 

15. Strength and Conditioning for Gaelic Football

Shane Malone

 

16. Strength and Conditioning for American Football

Nick Winkleman

 

17. Strength And Conditioning For Australian Rules Football

Brendan Fahrner

 

18. Strength and Conditioning for Basketball

Adam Virgile and Adam Petway

 

19. Volleyball

André Rebelo and Anthony N. Turner

 

20. Handball

Marco Cardinale

 

21. Strength and Conditioning for Netball

Sarah Whitehead and Katie Denton

 

22. Strength and Conditioning for Sprinting

James Wild

 

23. Long-Distance Running

Richard C Blagrove and Aidan O’Flaherty

 

24. Strength and Conditioning for Swimming

Konstantin Warneke, Michael Keiner, Stefan Fuhrmann, and Klaus Wirth

 

25. Strength and Conditioning for Triathlon

Matt Croyle, Ben Stephenson and Dan Atkinson

 

26. Strength and Conditioning for Climbing

Uzo Ehiogu

 

27. Strength And Conditioning for Alpine Skiing

Matthew J. Jordan, Jan Seiler, and Jörg Spörri

 

28. Strength and Conditioning for Diving

Steve Thompson, Cameron Owen, Gill Edmondson, and Dave Hembrough

 

29. Strength and Conditioning for Surfing

Josh Secomb, Joanna Parsonage and Jeremy Sheppard

 

31. Strength and Conditioning for the Track and Field Throwing Events

Kristof Kipp and Dane Miller

 

32. Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump

Dylan Hicks, John Nicolosi, Joseph Coyne, and Dan Pfaff

 

33. Strength and Conditioning for Powerlifting

Sean Maloney

 

34. Weightlifting

Shyam Chavda and Stuart Martin

 

35. Strength and Conditioning for Formula One

Ben Thorne

 

36. Strength and Conditioning for Cricket

Ross Herridge, Dean McNamara and John Orchard

 

37. Strength And Conditioning for Baseball

Eric Mcmahon and Andrew Mitchell

 

38. Strength and Conditioning for Lacrosse

Niccholas Ripley, Eric Ruppel and Nicole Shattuck

 

39. Strength and Conditioning for Golf

Chris Bishop and Dan Coughlan

 

40. Strength and Conditioning for Tennis

Emily Carter, Floris Pietzsch and Ed Smissen

 

41. Strength and Conditioning for Table Tennis

Dave Hembrough, Emma Vickers. Christopher Kirk, Rich Kite, and Matthew Goosey

 

Biography

Anthony Turner, PhD, ASCC, CSCS*D is Professor of Strength and Conditioning and Postgraduate Research Lead at the London Sport Institute, Middlesex University, UK. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Strength and Conditioning Journal. Anthony has edited five textbooks and authored The Fitness Formula. He has been a sport science consultant and S&C coach to numerous sports teams, and Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and was formerly Head of Physical Preparation for GBR Fencing during the Rio Olympic Games cycle. Anthony consults in human performance for the British Military and works as a Physical Performance Coach with Tottenham Hotspur Women’s Academy. He is a UKSCA Coach of the Year recipient (Education and Research).

 

Chris Bishop, PhD, ASCC is an Associate Professor of Strength and Conditioning and the current Head of Department at the London Sport Institute, Middlesex University, UK. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Professional Strength and Conditioning, a Senior Editor for the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and an Associate Editor for the Strength and Conditioning Journal. In addition, Chris serves on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for the European Tour Group in the sport of Golf and is the Principal Investigator for Golf Human Performance Research, for Sports.