Speed has long been recognized as a key component of superior sport performance. Whether they are chasing down a long pass in football or sprinting down the court on a fast break in basketball, an athlete's speed is a major factor in overall athletic ability. Authored by 19 of the top National Strength and Conditioning Association experts, ......
Written by the pioneer of periodization training, Tudor Bompa and training methods expert, Carlo Buzzichelli, Periodization, 6th Edition teaches readers how to maximise their training gains. This brand new sixth edition helps readers understand the latest research and practices related to training theory. Plus, it provides scientific support for ......
See what it takes to maximize on-court power, strength, agility, and quickness. Basketball Anatomy will show you how to improve performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement. Basketball Anatomy features 88 of the most effective basketball exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color ......
Reference for strength and conditioning professionals, researchers, and scientists studying muscle hypertrophy; textbook for upper-undergraduate and graduate students in exercise science.
The Definitive Guide to Increasing Size, Strength, and Athletic Performance
Serious fitness enthusiasts and athletes who want to make significant improvements in lower body size, strength, and power; also for strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, and other fitness professionals.
While speed is often viewed as the defining characteristic of elite athletic performance, there remains plenty of misinformation and confusion about what speed truly is and how it can be developed. Speed is far more than seconds on a stopwatch-it is the result of multiple anatomical systems working together in highly coordinated unison, from the ......
Strength and conditioning coaches, personal trainers, or other sport-related professionals; experienced athletes who understand the concepts and can apply the guidelines to their own program.
Individuals looking to reduce or eliminate pain, improve quality of life, enhance the mind-body connection, improve posture, allow limber movement of the joints, and release tension within muscles; also for fitness professionals who work with such individuals.
Strength training used to be simple. Before performance-enhancing drugs muddied the waters and social media fed us new, "ground-breaking" exercises on a weekly basis, people simply focused on lifting the heaviest weights possible to build strength. The Overload System for Strength reintroduces this time-tested, proven approach to achieving ......
