High-Performance Training for Sports

High-Performance Training for Sports
Author: David Joyce
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492584622

High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today’s athletes. High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby. Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas: • Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training. • Translate strength into speed. • Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power. • Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season. • Minimise the interference effect. • Design energy-specific performance programmes. Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.

Skill Acquisition in Sport

Skill Acquisition in Sport
Author: Nicola J. Hodges
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415607841

Expertise and research into the development of expertise and skill acquistion in sports performance is a specific area of research within the more general field of motor skills acquisition. This is the first fully comprehensive and focused work on the subject.

Transfer Of Training

Transfer Of Training
Author: Mary Broad
Publisher: Perseus Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1944.

Transfer of Training in Sports

Transfer of Training in Sports
Author: Anatoliĭ Bondarchuk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-12-17
Genre: Exercise
ISBN: 9781981828203

The third installment in the seminal series, Transfer of Training in Sports Vol. III delivers the goods. Never before seen training principles are explained in detail, including specific examples of how to implement them in your own training. This is the next evolution in the transfer series.

Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports

Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports
Author: Paul Gamble
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415637929

This text introduces the core science underpinning strength and conditioning regimes and explores innovative new approaches combining the best of applied physiology, biomechanics, sports medicine and coaching science.

Building Muscle and Performance

Building Muscle and Performance
Author: Nick Tumminello
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492585637

Every weekend warrior has two goals: compete successfully and look great doing it. Enter Building Muscle and Performance: A Program for Size, Strength & Speed by expert trainer Nick Tumminello. By combining the most effective approaches and exercises, Tumminello has developed a high-octane, high-efficiency system for building muscle and boosting performance. Step by step you’ll learn the best exercises for increasing speed, explosiveness, athleticism, and endurance. Push yourself to the limits with strength and power lifts and progressions, power training drills, and cardio conditioning workouts. The results are challenging yet exhilarating. You will discover performance and physique that you never thought possible. Building Muscle and Performance includes hundreds of exercises and dozens of ready-to-use programs. Detailed photo sequences depict every movement as well as variations to increase or decrease difficulty. You’ll find expert advice, equipment tips, and safety precautions. More important, you’ll find the results you’ve been looking for. You no longer have to choose between a chiseled physique and athletic performance. Building Muscle and Performance delivers the best of both worlds: the muscle and the hustle!

Speed Strength

Speed Strength
Author: Joel Smith
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781720694625

In training speed, the most elusive athletic quality, what really works, and what doesn't? What are the components of sprinting itself that elites do, where amateurs falter? And how can we arrange all of this in a training medium that facilitates high performance? Speed Strength is the product of hundreds of athletes trained, thousands of hours of study, dozens of expert mentors, and an open mind. If you are interested in the answer to these questions, then Speed Strength is the book that holds the answers you are looking for, and much more.Joel Smith is the host of the Just Fly Performance Podcast and a track and strength coach of 13 years. As a track coach to national champions and Olympic champions as a strength coach, Joel has seen the elements of speed inside and out. Featuring the insight of over 25 field leaders, Speed Strength touches on the most important trainable elements of sprinting in a holistic and thorough manner.

Athletic Movement Skills

Athletic Movement Skills
Author: Brewer, Clive
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1450424120

Before athletes can become strong and powerful, they need to master the movement skills required in sport. Athletic Movement Skills covers the underlying science and offers prescriptive advice on bridging the gap between scientist and practitioner so coaches and athletes can work together to achieve dominance.

Science and Practice of Strength Training

Science and Practice of Strength Training
Author: Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Biomechanics
ISBN: 1492592005

Science and Practice of Strength Training addresses the complexity of strength training programs while providing advice in customizing programs for athletes and other populations. It covers velocity training, intensity, timing, exercises, injury prevention, overtraining, and athlete monitoring.