The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton
Author: Rob Price
Publisher: Price World Publishing
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1936910993

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton is the most comprehensive and uptodate badmintonspecific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features yearround badmintonspecific weighttraining programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other badminton book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book provides you with the exercises needed to improve your putaways and increase racquet speed. It will have you hitting the birdie like never before. By following the programs in this book, you will increase your speed, power, and agility, enhancing your drop, flick, and drive shots until the end of the match.Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sportstraining expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's eTraining service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports
Author: Robert G. Price
Publisher: Price World Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780972410205

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date sport-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes world-wide. This book features 54 sport-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other sports book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes athletes from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximise your training and improve your performance. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilise its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

Badminton Handbook

Badminton Handbook
Author: Bernd-Volker Brahms
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2014
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1782550429

The Badminton Handbook is a compact, groundbreaking training manual that gives the reader an overall insight into the world of badminton. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with training theory while the second contains background information about the sport and its stars, thus giving the reader an overall insight into the world of badminton. The Badminton Handbook is groundbreaking in many ways. It combines training theory and information about badminton stars by reinforcing basic explanations on badminton technique with tips from the pros. It not only relates the excitement of this sport with Asian origins, but tells you all you need to know about badminton from A to Z. It is a reliable reference book that readers will want to turn to again and again.

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton
Author: Robert G. Price
Publisher: Price World Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781932549003

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date badminton-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes world-wide. This book features year-round badminton-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other badminton book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book provides you with the exercises needed to improve your put-aways and increase racquet speed. It will have you hitting the birdie like never before. By following the programs in this book, you will increase your speed, power, and agility, enhancing your drop, flick, and drive shots until the end of the match. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilise its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition

Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition
Author: Kelly Starrett
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Total Pages: 1282
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1628601604

Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat stiffness and achy joints, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries—all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist, or massage therapist. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. Kelly Starrett—founder of MobilityWOD —shares his revolutionary approach to mobility and maintenance of the human body and teaches you how to hack your own movement, allowing you to live a healthier, more fulfilling life. This new edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller has been thoroughly revised to make it even easier to put to use. Want to truly understand the principles that guide human movement? Becoming a Supple Leopard lays out a blueprint for moving safely and effectively through life and sport. Want to learn how to apply those principles to specific movements, whether you are doing squats in the gym or picking up a bag of groceries? Hundreds of step-by-step photos show you not only how to perform a host of exercise movements, such the squat, deadlift, pushup, kettlebell swing, clean, snatch, and muscle-up, but also how to correct the common faults associated with those movements. Frustrated because you can’t perform a certain movement correctly due to range of motion restrictions? Breaking the body down into 14 distinct areas, Starrett demonstrates hundreds of mobilization techniques that will help you resolve restrictions and reclaim your mobility. Unsure how to put it all together into a program that addresses your individual needs? This updated edition lays out dozens of prescriptions that allow you to hone in on a specific limitation, a nagging injury, or an exercise fault that you just can’t seem to get right. It even offers a 14-day full-body mobility overhaul. Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from physical restrictions, this one-of-a-kind training manual will teach you how to harness your athletic potential and maintain your body. Learn how to perform basic maintenance on your body, unlock your athletic potential, live pain-free...and become a Supple Leopard. This step-by-step guide to movement and mobility will show you how to: • Move safely and efficiently in all situations • Organize your spine and joints in optimal, stable positions • Restore normal function to your joints and tissues • Accelerate recovery after training sessions and competition • Properly perform strength and conditioning movements like the squat, bench press, pushup, deadlift, clean, and snatch • Build efficient, transferable movement patterns and skill progressions from simple to more advanced exercises • Identify, diagnose, and correct inefficient movement patterns • Treat and resolve common symptoms like low back pain, carpal tunnel, shoulder pain, and tennis elbow • Prevent and rehabilitate common athletic injuries Use mobilization techniques to address short and stiff muscles, soft tissue and joint capsule restriction, motor control problems, and joint range of motion limitations • Create personalized mobility prescriptions to improve movement efficiency

Exercise and You - The Complete Guide

Exercise and You - The Complete Guide
Author: Madeleine Smethurst
Publisher: Modus Associates Limited
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1907495541

Exercising regularly helps us to maintain both good physical and psychological health, as well as reducing our risk of developing chronic illnesses in the future. It can also be a great social outlet and a good way to meet new people. Exercise and You: The Complete Guide is your straightforward and friendly guide to everything you need to know about exercise. It is packed full of reliable information, facts and sensible advice from both the NHS and the Health-e-Buddy team. Covering a wide variety of topics, that range from exercise benefits and types of exercise to basic nutrition and planning your routine, this eBook is great for both newcomers to exercise and as a reference source for more seasoned athletes. Go for it!"

The Complete Guide to Strength Training Methods

The Complete Guide to Strength Training Methods
Author: Keven Arseneault
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 171821670X

Finally, the strength training book you’ve been wishing for is here! The Complete Guide to Strength Training Methods compiles more than 230 training techniques proven to increase strength, power, hypertrophy, endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular capacity. Sport performance coach Keven Arseneault has spent over 20 years reading, researching, and testing various methods to determine the best training techniques. In The Complete Guide to Strength Training Methods, he assembles these into a comprehensive resource that allows you to add variety and get the most from your workouts. Each method is presented on a single page that highlights the technique’s advantages and disadvantages, effects on different aspects of fitness, and trainer tips. The page also has a prescription table that includes intensity or load, reps, and sets. This practical approach provides you with everything you need to incorporate the method into your program immediately. Throughout, you will find programming tips to help you create your own training plan to fit your individual needs. The eight sample programs provided can be followed as is or used as a blueprint for personalized programs. Whether you are a fitness enthusiast working out at home, a serious gym goer, an athlete, or a strength or fitness professional, The Complete Guide to Strength Training Methods is the comprehensive yet practical resource you need to keep your workouts fresh, challenging, and on point to reach your goals.

Badminton Today

Badminton Today
Author: Tariq Wadood
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1990
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780314475961

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Badminton

Badminton
Author: Tony Grice
Publisher: Steps to Success S.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736072298

'Steps to Success' books provide expert instruction and drills to help adult learners master the basic skills of the featured sporting activity, in this case badminton.