The issue of off-season training in American football (review study)
Keywords:
american football, fitness training, strength training, off-season program, conditioning demands, conditioning abilities, off-season training content, literature researchAbstract
The aim of the present paper was to use literature research to compile knowledge and information from professional and scientific articles or publications dealing with the issue and to create a survey study on the issue of off-season training in American football based on the collected data and information. In order to collect information for the creation of this article dealing with the issue of off-season training in American football, literature research was conducted, mainly including foreign publications and professional and scientific articles and studies (The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, PubMed, National Library of Medicine and Google Scholar). In terms of the processed results of the literature research, which mainly contains foreign sources, it is clear that there is no uniform and comprehensive system for off-season training The players' conditioning demands and approaches to off-season preparation vary according to professional articles, studies and publications, therefore the main objective was to compare individual models of periodization of off-season training programs and to provide examples related to American football.