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New Functional Training for Sports

Boyle, Michael, 1959- Book - 2016 796.07 Bo 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Includes index.
Making Training More Functional -- Analyzing the Demands of the Sport -- Assessing Functional Strength -- Designing a Program -- Foam Rolling, Stretching, and Dynamic Warm-Up -- Lower Body Training -- Core Training -- Upper Body Training -- Plyometric Training -- Olympic Lifting -- Performance Enhancement Programs.
Provides trainers and athletes with exercises for improving speed, strength, and power during sport performance, based on best practices in functional training. Describes what functional training is, how to analyze the demands of a specific sport, how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of athletes, how to design a program, and exercises for stretching, and dynamic warm-up; lower body, core, upper body, and pylometric training; Olympic lifting; and performance enhancement programs. This edition updates all information in the original version, Functional Training for Sports, and has new sections on areas like foam rolling and mobility; rewritten chapters to reflect scientific advances, philosophical changes, and additional experience; an updated chapter on core training; and reworked chapters on lower body training. --Publisher's description.

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PUBLISHED
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781492530619
1492530611

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Boyle, Michael, 1959-

SUBJECTS
Athletes -- Training of.
Physical education and training.
Exercise.