Total Training for Coaching Team Sports --- Tudor Bompa

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Anyone read/own this book?

Total Training for Coaching Team Sports
by Tudor O. Bompa (Author)

Paperback: 285 pages

Publisher: Sport Books Publisher (January 1, 2006)

ISBN-10: 0920905927

ISBN-13: 978-0920905920

Product Description
The approach taken for training team sport athletes in this book differs from the traditional methods used by many coaches. This innovative and scientific approach to training the energy systems and developing speed, power, agility, quickness, and endurance is designed to help players surpass their current levels of physical and psychological development. In training for team sports one thing is certain – progress is impossible without scientific and methodological advances. From head coaches wishing to learn more about model training, planning, and the physiological aspects of training to strength and conditioning coaches wanting to learn more about certain aspects of technical and tactical training, this book is for the serious coach of any team sport. Ultimately, the better your understanding of technical and tactical training, the greater your effectiveness in creating game- and position-specific drills and training methods to improve your players’ physical potential. A must for every team sport coach’s library!

From the Inside Flap
Training team sport athletes is a complex task because team sports themselves tend to be very complex. Coaches must understand the technical and tactical skills involved in their respective sports, as well as keep abreast of contemporary physiological and psychological training methods, in order to maximize their players’ potential and, ultimately, the team’s performance and success.

Although many concepts discussed in this book presume a basic knowledge of human anatomy and exercise physiology, coaches should have no problem following the material presented. My approach to training team sport athletes differs from the traditional methods used by many coaches. This innovative and scientific approach to training the energy systems and developing speed, power, agility, quickness, and endurance is designed to help players surpass their current levels of physical and psychological development. In training for team sports one thing is certain—progress is impossible without scientific and methodological advances.

From head coaches wishing to learn more about model training, planning, and the physiological aspects of training, to strength and conditioning coaches wanting to learn more about certain aspects of technical and tactical training, this book is for the serious coach of any team sport. Ultimately, the better your understanding of technical and tactical training, the greater your effectiveness in creating game- and position-specific drills and training methods to improve your players’ physical potential.

Another objective of this book is for it to serve as the official textbook for the Strength and Conditioning Expert Certification Program offered by Tudor Bompa Institute. The objective of this certification is to produce high-quality strength and conditioning coaches, beyond the level that currently exists.

The Present State of the Art

A brief analysis of the present state of training in team sports is a good starting point for the topics discussed in this book.

Training

Stated simply, training is the manipulation of training methods to induce adaptation. When adaptation reaches high levels, so does performance. Without a continual increase in an athlete’s physical adaptation, improvements cannot occur. Therefore, coaches need to search continually for better training means and methods to stimulate greater adaptation.

Training is both a science and an art! A coach’s knowledge should always be based on the best scientific information available; however, the application of this knowledge is an art, where imagination serves as a great resource. Remember the words of Albert Einstein:

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

The coach is the artist—the person who makes it all happen—and the athlete is the canvas. The coach applies scientific principles to create an art form, which manifests itself in the skills of a trained athlete.

Conditioning

The purpose of conditioning is to cope with or overcome fatigue—the number one enemy of athletes. The higher an athlete’s level of conditioning, the better his or her rate of recovery. A training session is only as good as an athlete’s ability to recover from it. Therefore, recovery after a game or between workouts is as important as the training itself. Pay maximum attention to both!

The winner of a contest is often the team who fatigues last. Therefore, it’s important that athletes train to tolerate both physical and mental forms of fatigue. Athletes who can effectively combat fatigue will perform better for the duration of a game, especially in the final moments when the game is on the line.

Training for maximum conditioning means training all the components of physical fitness required in the sport—strength, power, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory endurance, speed, agility, flexibility, and quickness—as well as training the energy systems according to the sport’s ergogenesis (the proportion of the contribution of each energy system to the overall energy demand of the sport; see Chapter 4).

The Importance of Conditioning in Team Sports

Unfortunately, this scenario is all too familiar to many coaches who fail to appreciate the immense importance of their athletes’ conditioning. Many of the technical and tactical errors that occur in the later stages of a game are the direct result of fatigue encountered by a poorly conditioned team. Fatigue affects not only the technical aspects of performing, such as shooting and passing, but also the tactical judgment of players in being able to read and react appropriately to specific game situations. Exhausted players find it increasingly difficult to precisely control and coordinate their actions, especially of the lower limbs, which has another potential side effect—injury.

At the end of a game, players do not usually lack motivation. On the contrary, most players are highly motivated to finish the game with a victory. Unfortunately, poor conditioning can inhibit their ability to cope with high levels of fatigue, especially toward the end of the game, where technical errors and the deterioration of speed, agility, and quickness can negate a good performance earlier in the game.

Each generation of training specialists seems to adhere to a given slogan that, in general terms, accurately describes the predominant training theories of the time. Many coaches still adhere to the idea that you play into shape, when in fact they should embrace the notion that you train into shape. These coaches need to understand that training, not just playing, improves an athlete’s technical and tactical skills and develops all the physical components necessary to effectively cope with fatigue. This is why I propose a new slogan:

When training is a threat, the game is a treat!

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Don’t have it, but from my experience, all books which he wrote all mostly the same so at first view, i wouldn’t buy it…
Previous books, Periodization Theory and Methodology and Periodization training for sports are almost same books. Total training for young champions - low level, pretty silly book from my point…
Serious strength training - only BB…

I didn’t find anything really good in his books yet, so i don’t think that this book will make any difference. Maybe i am wrong… :slight_smile:

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i would totaly agree on same as I-3333,very similar info as his other bokks ,so i wouldn bother to much…

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Periodization. Theory and Methodology of Training. is a great book, really a must, but also one of the least understood books out there. Some concepts are quite advanced, yet people need to wait for someonelse to say the same things because Bompa is not in fashion among the upcomers. If you undervalue PTM you are either an élite coach (even if élite coaches have enough knowledge NOT to undervalue it) or need to go back to it and give it another read.

Periodization Training for Sports is a very different book as it only concentrates on periodization of strength. The details on periodization of motor capacities were a weak part of PTM and with PTS Bompa did a great job detailing the concept of periodization of strength. Again another must read book.

Total Training for Young Champions is a simple book for youth coaches. It indeed can look too basic for any coach at and above the intermediate level, but there are some interesting, low volume, progressive models of periodization of motor capacities. I personally refer to that book a couple of times a year for ideas, for istance late comer Master athletes can be progressed in a similar way as per youth programs.

Serious Strength Training I think it’s the weakest of Bompa’s book, actually the only weak one. It’s methodologically not so advanced.

I have two copies of the team training book, but I have yet to read it.

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Thanks for bringing this to our attention any work by Tudor is welcome after coaching in Junior College basketball and without a trainer most of a year i was a coach with many questions, so i was looking & found Tudor’s book’s through Charlie’s great body of work. I keep saying to myself their’s got to be a better way to train! Their was and we have found a holy grail.

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I didn’t say that PTM is not a good book, but in my opinion it is too general, too wide and it’s not so easy implicate it practically in training planing.
It is cool when you see those diagrams for all sports with maximum AA, hypertrophy, max strength…endurance and so, but if you really want to use it in training you will see that many informations for implication are missing…
Maybe he is not well understood, maybe even i didn’t understand him well, but as far as i heard, he took everything from Russian scientists so i prefer to read them much more than Bompa. I red all four books, and neither of them make some good impression…

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I didn’t say that PTM is not a good book, but in my opinion it is too general, too wide

I agree on the fact that it is wide.

it’s not so easy implicate it practically in training planing […] It is cool when you see those diagrams for all sports with maximum AA, hypertrophy, max strength…endurance and so, but if you really want to use it in training you will see that many informations for implication are missing…

There is everything you need for training planning except detailed development of motor capacities. That’s why books like the one on team sport, the one on youth training and the one on periodization of strength were needed.

To sum it up, there is everything for planning and is missing some regarding programming.

as far as i heard, he took everything from Russian scientists

What you heard is not correct, as he was closer to Harre (East Germany) and, for istance, he came up with the concept of periodization of strength before the russians (early to mid '60s).

This come straight from Bompa:
“1. The planning chapters of my book of Periodization:T&M of Training has
refered to planning aspects never discussed in Eastern Europe. True, what Matveyev has
done represents a breakthrough in planning, but neither him nor anybody else
has ever taken planning to such details as I have done (sorry for my lack of
modesty). As a demonstration that this is the case I should mentione that my
first edition of P:T&M of T has been translated and pulished in a “samizdat”
form in Soviet Union, meaning that it was translated “illegally”, that it
was not approved by the state burocracy. It was also sold underground.
2. What I have done in the area of periodization of the motor abilitites has
been a novelty in all the EE countries, as evidenced by the fact that after
1990 three books of mine have been “legally” translated into Russian. Other
EE countries have also translated them as well. When you’ll look into the
periodization of motor abilities in my strength training book and the team
sports training book you are working on you should compare that with what is
available into other EE countries, including Russia. If anybody else will
show me a Russian book discussing these training elements I’ll say: sorry, I
am wrong to claim that!!”

Maybe he is not well understood, maybe even i didn’t understand him well,

If you can quickly write an annual plan with the right development sequence and integration of motor capacities for the sport, as well as program a microcycle with the right alternations of loads and energy systems, then you understod the book. :wink:

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The one thing i agree for sure is that there aren’t enough book on this theme so PTM is the most comprehensive right now.
Was he closer to Harre or Matveyev, i’ll see when i read Matveyev’s Fundamentals.
I am not sure that PTM gives enough for writing complete plan…but when i write it correct using Bompa’s PMT (and some other books) i’ll post it so we will discuss it more. and see if i understand it :slight_smile:

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You’re completely right!I meet last year a friend of Bompa which told me exactly the same you stated before:Bompa,in my opinion is a great man because you can completely organize, if you want, a yearly plan immediately(thing that didn’t happen with some american guys which write 1 concept new in every book they publish to make money!):slight_smile:

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That book practically baby spoon-feed you. If you want book which more easily implicates you in practical side of things, buy one which has a cookie cutter program. This one is about planning.

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Bompa was very influential for many great coaches of our decades. Even for some which are on this board, and which created very successful sportsman. Ive found that most ppl which say that didn’t find “anything good” in his books, either they didn’t read the book at all, either didn’t understood anything from it. And this is not necessarily their fault, but the fault of constant noise emanating from “know all” internet coaches.

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Hear hear.

I was bought up on and taught Bompa, went off him for awhile and now gone back to his books.

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Of course, I’ve known and been friends with Tudor for years anyway, but, besides that, anyone who pisses off the “gimmick de jour” crowd is worth a look.
How can you piss them off unless you are hitting a nerve?
(The nerve is the Emperors have no clothes)

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Very good points made Dan. And it’s no coincidence that these “know all” internet coaches never seem to replicate the success of those they condemn.

Instead of appreciating & respecting the success, in the words of CF - they get pissed off.

Look at it - if you don’t agree or if it’s not the way you want to go then choose another path, but don’t condemn it - that helps no-one.

Bompa’s radical ideas were developed by him in the 1960’s and as you alluded to have stood the test of time and openly embraced by most of our successful coaches today.

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Don’t judge the author by the book!

I have just finished reading “Total training for coaching team sports” and it is basically a crap. Couple of reasons:

  1. The title is stupid: training for coaching? What the f* does that mean?

  2. The author confused a bunch of terms, from technical skills, tactical skills, strategy/game plan, etc, etc

  3. The author didn’t mentioned nor adressed the problems of modern team sports (see box in the next post)

  4. The author coupled aerobic development and speed work in same training component

  5. The author used pretty much stupid exercises to develop agility and movement speed

  6. The author didn’t address peaking for play-offs in already full competition period, nor planning of the sport shape/form, nor addressed two and three periodization models of yearly plan

PLEASE — I said the book sucks, not the Bompa. Even the elite coaches can have marketing and quick-money-making intentions and poor writing skills.

Anyway, I basically read books for a one or two sentences that could increase my knowledge and in this book I found one interesting concept worth the money. I plan to get new edition of “Periodization” and read it.

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A rough translation using Google Translator of new article by prof. Vladimir Koprivica, (ex) head and conditioning coach and adviser in Partizan Basketball Club, Serbia

Actual Problems of Construction Macrocycle in Elite Sport

The twentieth century, among other things, is flagged and a development of sports. This is especially true in the second half, when practically all the sports field speed up your development Training methodology development, expand the scope and form of competition, the construction of new sports facilities, all the better organization of competitions and training and other. This is followed obimnija all professional and popular information, increasing the popularity of sports and financial investment in him, and the sport of activities in free time, for many, became a professional activity. And for those who invest money in the sport, is the opportunity for gainful work which brings material, and other income.
The sport stroke has not been possible without školovanog professional staff and the impact of science, which is to measure the progress of sport gained more importance. Discovery parallelisms in the sport, the practice of science is improved, but the practice of sport, encouraged to a greater extent, the need and desire to achieve the maximum, always went a step ahead.
More practical results and accumulated experience, are looking for professional and scientific explanations. However, only after the Second World War, especially in the period from 1960 to 1970, appeared the first works that have begun to interpret an extensive area of training and competitions. Based on its predecessor, primarily L. Pikolia and NVOzolina, the most famous author of the world in this field, LPMatvejev (1964), formed the basic theory that all temeljnije obrazlagao in the following works (Matvejev, LP, 1977.1999 , 2001, 2008). They have made a significant impact on practically all the theoretical work of this kind in the world (npr.Ulatovski, T.1971, Harre, D.1973, Bompa, T.1983, Platonov, VN1987, 1997, Choutka, M. Dovalil, J. 1991, Željaskov, C.1998) and us (npr.Petrović, D.1977, Malacko, J.1991, Najšteter, Đ.1991).
Makrociklus, as Opšteprihvaćeni term, in the beginning of the poistovećivao one season (year) in the sport, because it is dominated jednociklična variety of training which is in its composition had a preparatory, competitive and transition period. A significant increase in the number of competition and improve the material base of sports competition is allowed during the year (even in the typical seasonal sports fields), has to change the traditional structure of the season. Instead of the season with a season, often have planned cycles with two, three, and more takmičarskih period. If each of these cycles in the modified form, kept all the three periods that make it, at least, and very short, it is meant to be during the season could be implemented more makrociklusa.
Dissolution of the classical competitive-Training season at the season lasted for a long time (6-7 months), two shorter makrociklusa, in the appropriate legislative acquisition, maintenance and loss of form of sport. Early research (Matvejev, LP1977), and newer (Matvejev, LP1991, 2001), as well as sports practice, showed that, if the adoption of strict criteria of the state of sports form, athletes in it, in the best case, may be to 2.5 months. When good planning and implementation of training process, this period coincides with the season. Next makrociklus starts a new pre-season which is conducive to creating the conditions for re-entry into the sports form and duration of the competition during the second period. Therefore, many of the sports field passed with jednociklične the variation dvocikličnu season.
Due to the increasing domination of the season with two and three makrociklusa, began to zapostavljati jednociklična variant of the season and considered outdated. However, very quickly proved to be “… the structure of the annual training-competition cycle top athletes do not build from the 3-4-5-6 makrociklusa as some experts believe” (Suslov, FP Šepelj, SP1999). All complex structures and the training makrociklusa-competitive season, in addition to the traditional factors that determine the (zakonomernosti development, maintenance and loss of sport forms, specifics of the sports field, sports zakonomernosti development of the individual and his adaptacione opportunities, orientation to an important competition and, second, Koprivica, V. 2002), is caused by many factors and newer.
In the current time, the development of sport for a sports season, and within it one or more makrociklusa that consists of, a characteristic the following:

  1. All season, the differ, and in particular season in which the athletes preparing for the main competition, not only the season, but long-preparations for Olympic Games.
  2. The season may be more makrociklusa, but three, because practical experience shows that even in sports fields that are used trociklična period, virtually no athletes who are at the same time preparing for three major competitions divided into three makrociklusa (Suslov, FP1998). Top tennis players are forced to the system of evaluating the results, but just because the competition izjednačenoj world, almost that it is not possible to win all four grain slem tournaments in one year.
  3. Sports Almanac, under the growing influence of commercialization of sports extended to the extent that is not rational. It is often located in the 10 months of the year, and the former separate makrociklusi season fully connect. So we again get jednocikličnu variation, without međuetape necessary for recovery and a new preparation. Since the competition in many sports fields stretch during most of the season, would rather that the season is called the basic period of the competition.
  4. All are in violation of the relationship of competition and the preparatory period. Theoretical recommendations that preparatory period must be from 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 the season, all are less respected in practice. Table 2 can be seen that the ratio of 1:4,5 and not the entire season, but only in the season.
  5. Optimal ratio of training and competition is practically no longer exists if it is to participate in all or most of the competition of the season. Here there is a significant difference between the individual and collective sports branch. The advantage of individual branches of the sport that the athletes can make the individual competition calendar, which corresponds to the goals and possibilities. Because many of the athletes, especially in the immediate preparations for the Olympic Games, all the attention directed to the main competition of the season. Some of the most successful elected jednocikličnu variation in the season which increases the duration of the preparatory period, the competition comes to the necessary minimum (see Table 1). Even in such circumstances, athletes in some sports fields can not avoid a number of competitions during the season (83 J. Jankovic, R. Nadal, R. Federer, N.Đoković by 80 mečeva in 2008).
  6. Preparatory period for a gradual long-term entry in the sports form. To be able to guarantee a significant improvement in results and the stability of sport forms, it is necessary to makrociklusu Separate enough time for the preparatory period, which provides the neforsirano acquisition (Matvejev, LP2001). Therefore, in the professional literature preparatory period often called the fundamental period of preparation.
  7. Increasing shortening the preparatory period imposes the need to extend the period of preparation on the part of the period of competition and that competition is less important to use as a powerful factor in preparation for the sport at the time the main form of competition (Koprivica, V.2002).
  8. Increase in the number of competitions, among them commercial, have to increase the number of performances of most elite athletes in individual sports fields throughout the year. However, in sports games all the more increased number of competitions and games that top teams can not be avoided. For example, in basketball, the former of predication with two and three makrociklusa (Furaeva, NV2001) came to the huge number of games that take more than 30% active on the training-competition cycle (see Table 2) and season with a competitive long-cycle takes (Elevič, SN2004). Therefore, teams that want to win the title, bring together a number of top players together who can bear a load exhausting season and win. In some sports games, the number of games in the same sports year in the framework of understanding (see tab.3).
  9. More and more in the professional literature zapostavlja that the period of training the sports management sports form. Again in the forefront as the main factor that decides the structure of the annual cycle expires calendar competition. According to research NVFuraeve (2001) to make even the experts. This can be a great strategic mistake in the practice that athletes and teams rambling of success on the most important competitions.
  10. Observed changes and led to a number of positive effects: the complex management of the preparation and competition caused the formation of number of professional staff composed of specialists of different profiles, improving the control of training and competition, and competitive activity tracking system, improves the opportunities for control of the health of athletes, improving the doping control, as well as methods and forms of its application, the better the conditions for rehabilitation of injured athletes, sports nutrition is more control experts, all the better and faster information about professional opponents, modern information technology allows fast data transfer and processing, as well as the formation of valuable database; trenažeri use new and better devices and props, the better the conditions for objective hearing of the sports competitions, and more.
  11. In all složenijoj the situation in practice may be more notice:
    • violates the hierarchy of the competition and often gives preference to commercial, well-paid events, the important events of the season, and even the Olympic Games;
    • there is no need of recovery cycles in long-season;
    • Athletes are more exposed to big-specific efforts, and some of them, at the end of the extreme napornih season, a serious violation, and therefore be less prepared for the next season in which, as a rule, achieve worse results;
    • reduces the time a transition period, and the sports games overloaded players in this period of preparation and have a game in the team;
    • all the more important contests that follow one another during the season, and thus reduced the possibility of: load variations, rational load distribution, load changes focusing, rational schedule load and rest, proper relations between the general and specific, application profilaktičkog exercise, etc.;
    • stage of immediate preparation for the main competition is mainly in the competitive period, and increased risk of failure if the different competitions each intertwined;
    • map of sports competitions is wider, because the competitions are held on all continents, and travel and frequent changes of time zone and climate further burden the athletes (eg N.Đoković in the 2008th year traveled 115 thousand miles);
    • work with representative selections of sports requires a correction of the calendar year in the most important competition to the rest of the athletes before competition in the first of the year, and thoroughly prepare for the main competition of the season;
    • for all major sports do (competition, training, travel), decreases the possibility that the top athletes trained and educated for life after the end of sports career.

Growing problem of building makrociklusa elite athletes and their places, the number and structure of the season, does not follow the presentation material from the actual practice. Example listed in Table 2, the teams in the four competitions in the same season, it can serve as an indicator of current takmičarskih and training load in elite sport. In this example, through the numbers and relationships of different parameters of the season can see many of the problems makrociklusa and competitive season in elite sport.

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Duxx said: “PLEASE — I said the book sucks, not the Bompa. Even the elite coaches can have marketing and quick-money-making intentions and poor writing skills.”

Point taken.