Muay Thai Basics

Author: Christoph Delp
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 1583941401
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
A step-by-step guide to all things Muay Thai—with historical insights, training programs and schedules, and technical demonstrations by Muay Thai champions. In this hands-on manual, renowned trainer Christoph Delp offers a crash course in Muay Thai, or Thai Boxing, which combines fitness training, self-defense, and competitive sport. The guide covers: • Muay Thai history, rules, and equipment • basic but essential skills, including starting positions and footwork • all attacking techniques and select defensive techniques and strategies • training regimen structure, content, planning, and scheduling • historical training methods and stretching programs Featuring detailed demonstrations by Thai champions from Bangkok’s famed Sor Vorapin gym, Muay Thai Basics offers authoritative instruction for Thai boxers and other martial arts enthusiasts looking to self-train or supplement their club training.

Boxing Basics

Author: Al Gotay Ma Mps
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432725068
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
The Techniques and Knowledge Needed to Excel in the Sport of Boxing The illustrations, explanations, and techniques presented in Boxing Basics provide everything needed to excel in the sport of boxing. Easy to follow explanations and illustrations introduce the reader to the sport by providing information on training equipment, types of boxing gyms, and how to get into fighting shape. The bulk of this boxing text is devoted to providing progressive steps in the learning of the sport of boxing. It begins by presenting the primary elements of boxing and ranges to advanced skills. The Instant Reference Guide is a special feature designed for busy persons. It provides fast-track references to the important points in every chapter. This publication can be used as a how-to reference guide for trainers as well as beginners. "Some books just show you how to box, others just tell you. Still others do a little of both. With Boxing Basics, Professor Gotay becomes your personal trainer, teaching you step by step how to box. This is the most definitive how to boxing book I have ever seen." - Randy Gordon, Former Editor-in-Chief of Ring Magazine; Boxing Analyst for ESPN, USA Network, and the MSG Network; and Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. Presently the host of Fight Club, the popular Sirius Radio boxing talk show.

Kick Boxing Basics

Author: Joe Fox
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9780806997810
Category : Kickboxing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Challenge your body with an exciting, increasingly popular martial art. Kickboxing training is hard work and an excellent way to build your body. It is demanding--you must strive for maximum alertness, conditioning, strength, and quickness--but it is also intensely rewarding. Every training session and every fight leads to greater insights into the sport and into yourself as a person and as an athlete. This generously illustrated guide introduces you to all the basics you need to learn in order to step into the ring for your first amateur fight--and win it! Begin by preparing your body through exercises designed to increase your strength and stamina. Develop your triceps, biceps, shoulder muscles, and latissimus muscles for punching; your forearms and wrists for stability; your quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves for kicking; and your abdominal and lower back muscles for necessary support. Learn to control your breathing while running. Next, get to work on boxing skills--jabs, uppercuts, bobbing, and weaving--and kicking skills, including the front kick, football kick, roundhouse kick, and ax kick. Guidance is also offered in ring skills, fighting strategies, choosing equipment, and finding coaches, trainers, promoters, training facilities, and training partners. Before you know it, you'll be in peak physical condition, ready to kickbox your way to victory! 128 pages, 141 b/w illus., 8 x 10.

Boxing Basics

Author: Chuck Bodak
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN: 9780809272105
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Outlines the fundamentals of boxing including psychological preparation, physical conditioning, offensive and defensive strategies, and ring psychology.

The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness

Author: Hilary Lissenden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472902807
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
A comprehensive, practical guide to non-contact boxing - looks at workouts in an individual, group or class setting. Learn how to improve clients' body composition, heart-lung stamina, strength, speed, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. It also covers boxing training's less tangible but equally important benefits such as building confidence and self-esteem – especially relevant to schools and young people. Key features include: - Fully illustrated, with vibrant photographs and practical diagrams for imparting core boxing and safety techniques (e.g. wrapping clients' hands; teaching correct stance, punches and combinations) - Sample training programmes for clients of differing abilities and fitness levels, with guidance on safe and appropriate progression - Relevant content on dietary and health matters The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness is a tried-and-tested, unique guide to boxing skills and drills for the fitness and sporting arenas.

Ultimate Boxing Workout

Author: Andy Dumas
Publisher: Mosaic Press
ISBN: 1771613491
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Boxing is the ideal workout for fitness and conditioning. No wonder more and more people around the world, both women and men, are discovering how to stay fit through boxing exercises. Stamina, strength, speed, endurance and more are all within your reach through Ultimate Boxing Workout: Authentic Workouts for Fitness. Experience the challenging physical training of a boxer and get in the best physical condition of your life. These exhilarating interval workouts teach you the foundations of boxing training, body awareness, proper execution of movements all resulting in a challenging and safe exercise program. Boxers are the best conditioned athletes in the world. The Ultimate Boxing Workout replicates the most beneficial elements of a boxer's practice to maximize results in the shortest amount of time. It is fun, effective, and dynamic, and it includes routines that cover all aspects of boxing training. Here, at last, both women and men will find boxing and fitness in perfect balance.

Taekwondo Basics

Author: Scott Shaw
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462904858
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Taekwondo Basics teaches you all the fundamentals of this Korean martial art form in a clear and easy-to-understand manner! This basic introductory survey contains the following vital information: The origins, philosophy, and history of Taekwondo How to find a teacher and a class that are right for you Getting ready for your first class--what actually happens in a Taekwondo class? The essential elements--stances, blocks, hand and arm strikes, and kicks How to complement your Taekwondo training with other conditioning exercises, such as running and biking Powerful ways to improve your technique through target training, partner training, competitive training, free-sparring, and more Resources that can help you further develop your Taekwondo practice Whether you're just getting started, or you've already been training for a year or two, Taekwondo Basics offers an easy to read, yet comprehensive, introduction to the sport.

The Principles of Training

Author: Warwick Schiller
Publisher: Warwick Schiller
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” - Harrington Emerson Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of training decisions to be made when working with a horse? Should you speed up, slow down, turn left, turn right? What transition should you make next? Which body part should you move where? What if you didn’t need to memorize a million techniques and scenarios, but just needed to understand the principles at play in each situation? The Principles of Training offers readers an understanding of the 12 fundamental principles that all successful horse people use and illustrates them with real-life examples to help readers fully understand why effective training works.

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Basics

Author: Gene Simco
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806526638
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Gene Simco teaches that a solid mastery if the fundamentals of this martial art is essential in creating a foundation upon which the more advanced techniques can be built. With photos and step-by-step instruction, Simco shows the reader all the moves that are needed to take training to the next level. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Basics also includes information on the primary positions and submissions, defences against punches, escapes from chokes and warm-up exercises. Whether you're a novice or an experienced martial artist, this is the book to refer to when taking to the mat.

Training for Life

Author: David E. Lapin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663255970
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description
If you have ever worked out with a personal trainer—or if you are thinking of doing so for the first time—Training for Life is for you. An affirming narrative on the multiple benefits of working with a trainer in one’s sixties and beyond, Training for Life is confirmation that you can begin a new regimen of rigorous exercise at virtually any stage of life. Training for Life is also a personal memoir on the author David E. Lapin’s six-year journey of camaraderie with two trainers whom he initially met at Equinox Sports Club Boston: Austin Rowe and Pete Goulet. Theirs is a story of growing friendship and mutual support, transcending the forty-plus-year age difference between Lapin—who began training at age sixty-six—and Rowe and Goulet. Lapin deftly weaves a story that is both entertaining and inspiring. Training for Life will appeal to readers who are themselves seniors, as well as those professionals in health and fitness fields who work with them. It is also for anyone eager to learn more about the opportunities for renewed health and vigor that working out provides.