If You Like Exercise ... Chances Are You’Re Doing It Wrong

If You Like Exercise ... Chances Are You’Re Doing It Wrong
Author: Gary Bannister
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 147597440X

In If You Like Exercise... Chances Are You’re Doing It Wrong, author Gary Bannister tells us that “the power-to-be have all but destroyed the value of muscle isolation, discredited the use of machines in general, ignored everything related to the work of Arthur Jones and replaced it with a ten-cent solution.” He claims that until the field of exercise defines what is true and what is not, it will never have the impact that it could. Muscle strength, the only factor that can produce human movement and the only factor that performs work, is disappearing from today’s training regimens. This study and guide analyzes current concepts and training systems-such as Pilates, “functional” training TRX, cross-training, kettlebells, and more-and compares their benefits to those of proper strength training to provide a clear picture for everyone. If You Like Exercise... Chances Are You’re Doing It Wrong rekindles the high intensity strength-training principles of Arthur Jones, the founder of Nautilus. Bannister focuses on the concepts of intensity, form, frequency, duration, number of repetition, speed if movement, and muscle fatigue, supporting them with current research. Logically applied, proper strength training is the only system capable of satisfying all five potential benefits of exercise-an increase in strength, flexibility, cardiovascular condition, body-composition, and injury prevention.

Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.

Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.
Author: Hunter Allen
Publisher: VeloPress
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1937716155

Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan, PhD have completely revised the book that made power meters understandable for amateur and professional cyclists and triathletes. Power meters have become essential tools for competitive cyclists and triathletes. No training tool can unlock as much speed and endurance as a power meter--for those who understand how to interpret their data. A power meter displays and records exactly how much energy a cyclist expends, which lends unprecedented insight into that rider's abilities and fitness. With the proper baseline data, a cyclist can use a power meter to determine race strategy, pacing, and tactics. Training and Racing with a Power Meter makes it possible to exploit the incredible usefulness of the power meter by explaining how to profile strengths and weaknesses, measure fitness and fatigue, optimize workouts, time race readiness, and race using power. This new edition: Enables athletes to predict future performance and time peak form Introduces fatigue profiling, a new testing method to pinpoint weaknesses Includes two training plans to raise functional threshold power and time peaks for race day Offers 75 power-based workouts tuned for specific training goals This updated edition also includes new case studies, a full chapter on triathlon training and racing, and improved 2-color charts and tables throughout. Training and Racing with a Power Meter, will continue to be the definitive guide to the most important training tool ever developed for endurance sports.

Strength Training for Basketball

Strength Training for Basketball
Author: Javair Gillett
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1492571490

Strength Training for Basketball will help you create a basketball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position--guard, forward, or center--develop strength and successfully transfer that strength to the basketball court.

Ultimate Speed Secrets

Ultimate Speed Secrets
Author: Ross Bentley
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-08-28
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 161058273X

Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals. Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to know to maximize your potential and your car: Choosing the correct line Overtaking maneuvers Adapting to new tracks and cars The mental game and dealing with adversity Finding (and keeping) a sponsor. The pages are filled with specially commissioned color diagrams to illustrate the concepts described. Whether you are a track-day novice or a seasoned professional, Ultimate Speed Secrets will arm you with practical information to lower your lap times and help you get the best out of your vehicle—and yourself. It’s the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!

55 Corrective Exercises for Horses

55 Corrective Exercises for Horses
Author: Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1570769052

A highly illustrated guide to simple yet effective methods for keeping horses sound, healthy, and performing their best. Over time, horses (like people) acquire postural habits, compensate for soreness and injury, and develop poor movement patterns. This limits performance ability, causes unsoundness and health issues, and ultimately undermines the horse's overall well–being. Jec Aristotle Ballou has made a name for herself advocating for the horse and providing sensible instruction in his schooling, conditioning, and care. Her bestselling books and popular clinics are designed to enable any horse person to correctly apply proven principles that bring measurable progress while avoiding boredom and confusion. In her latest collection of mounted and unmounted corrective exercises, Ballou demonstrates how we can actively work to improve the horse's posture and movement, whether he is: An active performance or pleasure mount. An aging or older horse that benefits from gentle exercise. A horse being rehabilitated following injury, illness, or lack of conditioning. Ballou's positive cross–training techniques are free of shortcuts, and her guidelines for analyzing the horse's posture and way of going help readers gain a new awareness of the equine body. Applicable for all disciplines and full of quality color photographs to explain the exercises, this is an integral collection that optimizes how the horse uses his body and helps ensure he stays sounder and healthier for more years of his life.

The Successful Race Car Driver

The Successful Race Car Driver
Author: Robert Metcalf
Publisher: SAE International
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2000-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0768039924

From driving to car preparation to dealing with sponsors, The Successful Race Car Driver details the lessons that need to be learned to succeed in today's racing environment. All drivers, from those who consider racing a hobby to those who wish to embark on a professional career, will find valuable tips and techniques that will help make them faster drivers, and help them avoid pitfalls along the way.

Strength and Conditioning in Football: Driving Physical Performance through Research and Innovation

Strength and Conditioning in Football: Driving Physical Performance through Research and Innovation
Author: Marco Beato
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832555675

Modern sport depends on research and the advancement of science in order to achieve increments in performance and health promotion. This is particularly true for football, which is the most popular sport in the world. Frontiers in Frontiers in Physiology and in Sport and Active Living recognize the importance of strength and conditioning in football and the necessity to facilitate debate and discussion amongst the sport science community. This Research Topic entitled 'Strength and Conditioning in football. Driving physical performance through research and innovation' aims to highlight themes that foster debate and discussion in the high-performance football industry.

The Warrior's Mind: For Race Drivers

The Warrior's Mind: For Race Drivers
Author: Enzo Mucci
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781916219014

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP YOUR INNER WARRIOR. To be a true champion you must remain mentally resourceful and access your skills whilst competing in an unpredictable and dangerous environment. In head-to-head battles you must outthink, outmanoeuvre and outperform your rivals. You must do this whilst risking your life and limbs as you fight your way to victory. To perform at your best in such an environment you need to share the same mental coding as a thoroughbred warrior. In this book you will be walked through the whole process for recoding your mind so you can create the warrior mindset needed to reach your North Star. You will build a mental model that will help you automatically perform as you want. What you are about to learn here has been tried, tested and proven to work in all levels of motorsport. This is designed to help you reach your next level. Highlights of what is covered in the Warrior's Mind: - Create a warrior's mental model - Reinstall a new belief system - Prime your mind - Control your emotions - Have bulletproof self-belief - Handle fear and nerves - Overcome your past - Learn leadership skills - Deal with criticism - Overcome challenges. The real battlefield is in your mind; so be the commander.