Author: James C. Radcliffe Publisher: Ulysses Press ISBN: 1569755841 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 184
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This book presents exercises and workouts that will help any athletes improve their game by raising their athleticism - from a high school kid playing football to men who play basketball after work to women who play tennis at a club.
Author: James C. Radcliffe Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1569757496 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 399
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Get ahead of the competition with over 100 muscle-coordinating exercises and twenty sports-specific workouts. Push your muscle development and athletic abilities to incredible new heights with Functional Training for Athletes of All Levels. Functional training conditions your body to respond to the strenuous demands of athletic competition. This method goes far beyond standard isolation movements, done sitting down, that simply increase muscular bulk. Functional training coordinates your muscles to work together to produce explosive power, tightrope-walker balance, and catlike agility. With over 100 exercises—illustrated with step-by-step photos—and twenty sport-specific workouts, this book will help you acquire the athletic movement skills necessary to maximize your performance in any sport. *Develop a rock-solid core for supreme stability *Strengthen your trunk for explosive power *Sharpen fast-twitch muscles for lightning-quick responses *Coordinate your muscles for full body control *Enhance your stabilizers for quick, agile movement Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels includes customized sport-specific workouts for: •Baseball •Basketball •Bicycling •Football •Golf •Gymnastics •Hockey •Lacrosse •Rugby •Skiing •Soccer •Softball •Swimming •Tennis •Track & Field •Volleyball •Wrestling
Author: Michael Boyle Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers ISBN: 9780736046817 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 195
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Reach a higher level of athleticism with "Functional Training for Sports." This book presents a complete system that focuses on training your body the way it will be used during competition. Detailed exercise progressions and training will help develop the movement skills, body positions, and explosive power essential for sports.
Author: Neal Pire Publisher: Ulysses Press ISBN: 1569755590 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 146
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Successful athletes combine great skill with explosive power. If you want to improve your skills: practice, practice, practice. If you want to improve your power: do PLYOMETRICS. With over 70 exercises specially designed to enhance your speed, power, jumping and agility,
Author: Michael Boyle Publisher: Lotus Pub. ISBN: 9781905367313 Category : Athletes Languages : en Pages : 0
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FITNESS TRAINING. This new book presents the continued evolution of functional training. Ten sections present everything a strength coach or personal trainer may need to understand modern training theory. Boyle updates the reader on the current thinking in core training, back pain, and on how the hip musculature works. Further material on cardiovascular training, and what has worked for the athletes training in his facility continues the journey. In the second half of the book, the author discusses training strategies, including exercises equipment and tools in use on the gym floor, how he develops speed, and a section on his single-leg training methods. Finally, he puts the entire package together with program design, covering the basic objectives of a sound program, and showing you exactly which programs to use in a variety of circumstances.
Author: Vern Gambetta Publisher: New World Library ISBN: 9780736051002 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team. The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in - sport-specific demands analysis, - work capacity enhancements, - movement skills development, - long- and short-term training program progressions, and - rest and regeneration techniques. Athletic Development explains what works, what doesn't, and why. Gambetta's no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competitive season and reflect his work at the highest echelons of sport. Merging principles of anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology with sports conditioning applications and four decades of professional practice, this is the definitive guide to performance-enhancing training.
Author: Frances Sharpe Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101151994 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 648
Book Description
Lengthen spine, tuck pelvis under, bend knees . . . and shovel that driveway! The goal of functional training is getting the various muscle groups to work together for real-life activities, such as snow shoveling. The guide includes: • A functional fitness self-assessment • More than 120 exercises for different levels, using either props or one's own body weight • More than 300 photographs demonstrating proper movements • Warm-up and cool-down exercises • Sample workout plans for personalized results. • An appealing, practical approach to exercise, with more than 120 highly–illustrated exercises.
Author: Santana, Juan Carlos Publisher: Human Kinetics ISBN: 1450414826 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific programming, Functional Training is the most comprehensive resource for athletes, coaches, and athletic trainers. In an ever-changing field, it emphasizes proven techniques and approaches to training results.
Author: Krista Stryker Publisher: S&S/Simon Element ISBN: 1982136480 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day! If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life. Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule. In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find: –A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level –Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands –More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts –Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger –Bonus Tabata workouts –And so much more! The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.
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