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Title:
New functional training for sports / Michael Boyle.
Author:
Boyle, Michael, 1959- author.
Publication Information:
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2016]
Call Number:
GV711.5 .B69 2016
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
Second Edition.
ISBN:
9781492530619
Physical Description:
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
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.
Uniform Title:
Functional training for sports
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