In the training of sports teams, alongside technique and tactics, the focus is increasingly on conditioning and coordination fundamentals. Due to the lack of a scientifically based, cross-sport training concept, coaches, teachers, students, and players have found it difficult to keep track of the selection, weighting, and application of content and methods. This book provides exactly that concept. Author Dieter Steinhöfer analyzes and structures the current state of literature on the scientific foundations of sports training in this new edition of his standard work (original title: Fundamentals of Athletic Training). He begins by examining the performance influencing factors, types of sports training, conditioning and coordination fundamentals, training principles and methods, training goals, and control instruments, among others. Building on this foundation, he sheds light on...