High-performance training for sports
A comprehensive sports training manual that is suitable for dedicated strength and conditioning practitioners and athletes and coaches looking to expand their knowledge on how to develop and optimise human performance and athletic capacity. Each topic is addressed by a world renowned expert in a spe...
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Champaign, IL
Human Kinetics
© 2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Understanding modern athletes / David Joyce and Daniel Lewindon
- Evaluating athletic capacities / Mike McGuigan
- Developing younger athletes / Rhodri S. Lloyd and Jon L. Oliver
- Enhancing movement efficiency / Craig Ranson and David Joyce
- Stabilising and strengthening the core / Andy Barr and Daniel Lewindon
- Optimising flexibility / Sue Falsone
- Monitoring the training response / Aaron J. Coutts and Stuart Cormack
- Retraining the injured athlete / Daniel Lewindon and David Joyce
- Customizing the warm-up and cool-down / Rett Larson
- Fine-tuning motor control / Frans Bosch
- Using strength platforms for explosive performance / Daniel Baker
- Successfully translating strength into speed / Derek M. Hansen
- Optimising training for jumping and landing / Jeremy Sheppard
- Increasing agility / Sophia Nimphius
- Generating anaerobic power / David Martin
- Establishing endurance for repeated performance / Darcy Norman
- Boosting aerobic capacity / Grégory Dupont
- Optimising effective cross-training methods / Anthony Rice and Chris Spinks
- Planning a performance programme / Benjamin Rosenblatt
- Designing energy-specific programmes / Joel Jamieson
- Minimising the interference effect / Glenn Stewart
- Optimising preseason training in team sports / Darren Burgess
- Peaking for competition in individual sports / G. Gregory Haff
- Maintaining an in-season conditioning edge / Stuart Yule
- Recovering effectively in high-performance sports / Christian J. Cook, Liam P. Kilduff and Marc R. Jones.