The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance

The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance
Author: Louise Burke
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2010
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1741764750

A substantially revised and updated edition of the highly respected guide to using nutrition as an integrated part of an athlete's total performance enhancing package.

Gymnastics Psychology

Gymnastics Psychology
Author: Joseph L Massimo
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1600379486

Gymnastics Psychology takes a comprehensive look at the factors that are necessary for training champions while emphasizing concern for the athlete’s psychological status, regardless of the level of achievement. The easy-to-follow articles cover the interpersonal relationships of coaches and athletes, psychological issues pertaining to motivation and fear management, meet preparation and goal setting, as well as vital family, school and peer relationships. The authors provide definitive insight in the areas of psychological development and competitive behaviors that are critical to success.

The Warrior Diet

The Warrior Diet
Author: Ori Hofmekler
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1556438508

Reshape your body and mind by eating light during the day and filling up at night—the core tenet of this revolutionary nutrition program based on survival science. Join Ori Hofmekler as he turns to history for a solution to obesity and its attendant ailments—back to the primal habits of early cultures like nomads, hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Drawing on both survival science and historical data, Hofmekler argues that robust health and a lean, strong body can best be achieved by mimicking the classical warrior mode of cycling—working and eating sparingly (undereating) during the day and filling up at night. A radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul, the Warrior Diet Nutritional Program and the Controlling Fatigue Training Program can literally reshape your body! Inside, you’ll learn how to: • Find ideal fuel foods and food combinations to reduce body fat • Gain strength, speed, and resilience to fatigue through special drills • Prepare warrior meals and recipes • Increase sex drive, potency, and animal magnetism • Personalize the diet for your needs Featuring forewords by Fit for Life author Harvey Diamond and Fat That Kills author Dr. Udo Erasmus, The Warrior Diet shows readers weary of fad diets how to attain enduring vigor, explosive strength, a better appearance, and increased vitality and health.

The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition

The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition
Author: Anita Bean
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1408105381

The definitive practical handbook to sports nutrition, now in its sixth edition, fully updated and revised.

The Gymnastics Book

The Gymnastics Book
Author: Elfi Schlegel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9781770851603

Introduces the sport of artistic gymnastics.

Moving Stretch

Moving Stretch
Author: Suzanne Wylde
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 162317175X

Manage everyday pain with this effective, trainer-approved program that uses resistance stretching to increase strength, release tension, rejuvenate tissues—and much more. This accessible guide gives step-by-step instructions for people who feel tight or older than they should, people with poor posture, athletes who want to boost their performance, and those who want something more than conventional stretching. This book provides you with many different stretches for the whole body including the hands and feet, as well as routines for specific goals such as improving posture, helping office workers stay healthy, stretching the back, and more. Even those with sedentary lives will see and feel a difference, with just 10-20 minutes of stretching yielding benefits that may last the whole day. Many of us are limited in our movements, hunched over, or tight. Ideally, we would move in a variety of ways throughout the day, keeping our bodies fresh and youthful. However, office jobs and sofas can lead to bodies that are imprisoned in a cage of tension, whose tissue is dehydrated and stuck together, with some areas that are very weak or tight. Normal stretching is not strong enough to break us out of that state. When we tense our bodies and move through that tension, we engage the fascia and recondition it into a more youthful state, restoring great posture, elasticity, and power.

The Science of Gymnastics

The Science of Gymnastics
Author: Monèm Jemni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135285128

The Science of Gymnastics is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning this most demanding of sports. Drawing on cutting edge scientific research, and including contributions from leading international sport scientists and experienced coaches, the book represents an important link between theory and performance. With useful summaries, data and review questions included throughout, the book examines every key aspect of gymnastic training and performance, including: energetic, physical and physiological assessment training principles diet, nutrition and supplementation growth and development issues kinetics and kinematics angular and linear motion angular momentum stress, anxiety and coping motivation and goal setting mental skills training for practice and competition the psychology of learning and performance. In a concluding section the authors reflect on how fundamental scientific components (physiology, biomechanics and psychology) interact to enhance gymnastic performance, helping students to develop a better understanding of the relationship between sport science and sporting performance. The Science of Gymnastics is essential reading for all students, coaches and researchers with an interest in gymnastics or applied sport science.

Gymnastics Medicine

Gymnastics Medicine
Author: Emily Sweeney
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 303026288X

This book presents the most current information on the treatment of athletes involved in gymnastics, a multifaceted sport with unique demands on its participants that can lead to a myriad of medical conditions and injury patterns. It opens with an introduction to the history of gymnastics and a brief review of gymnastics disciplines and events. An overview of gymnastics injury epidemiology lays the foundation for the rest of the book. Growth and developmental issues are also discussed in detail, as many young gymnasts train long hours before or during puberty. Concepts related to the biomechanics of gymnastics, common overuse and acute musculoskeletal injuries, psychological issues, concussions, as well as rehabilitation and return-to-play principles round out the presentation. Throughout, there is the emphasis that young athletes are not simply small adults, and that they have unique needs and considerations for evaluation and treatment. Written and edited by experts in the field, some of whom are former gymnasts themselves, Gymnastics Medicine covers all of the relevant information on evaluation, management and return-to-play for sports medicine physicians, advanced practice providers, physical therapists, athletic trainers, exercise scientists, and mental health professionals.

Fuelling the Functional Athlete

Fuelling the Functional Athlete
Author: Jack Braniff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780368301865

Fuelling the Functional Athlete walks you through a proven framework for building a successful diet.Dispelling many of the myths often associated with nutrition for functional training, sports nutritionist Jack Braniff delves into the science and research behind exactly how you should be fuelling your training and eating for results, whilst providing you with a practical framework to implement yourself.