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High Performance Sports Conditioning
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Product Description
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Todays athletes are breaking records that many thought wereuntouchablein large part due to the major advances in sports training. High-Performance Sports Conditioning combines these superior modern methods with sampletraining programs, workouts, and drills to serve as the only conditioning guideyoull need this season.
This landmark book presents the principles and practices of this new era ofathletic training in the most thorough and useful text ever of its kind. Thefirst step in building a conditioning program is testing and building up thenine essential fitness components including power, strength, speed, quickness,coordination, agility, flexibility, local muscular endurance, and cardiovascularaerobic capacity and endurance. Next you tailor the training exercises anddrills to the development of sport-specific performance factors. Then youperiodize the training program precisely for peak performance at critical pointsin the competitive season, and if necessary, use a safe and effectivereconditioning regimen to bring an athlete back from injury.
High-Performance Sports Conditioning brings together 22 of the finest andmost respected contributors ever assembled for a sports conditioning guide. Thestrength and conditioning coaches for the Cleveland Indians, Vancouver Canucks,Miami Heat, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Mutiny, United States Olympic TrainingCenter, and other top sports organizations share their best drills and workoutsfor developing full athletic potential in 11 sports. Internationally acclaimedexperts such as Don Chu on power, Mark Verstegen on coordination and agility,and Tudor Bompa on periodization provide the very best information and insightsin their respective areas of training.
The revolutionary training system found in High-Performance SportsConditioning reveals the future of athletic strength and conditioning andwill be the training bible for coaches and athletes for many seasons to come.
About the Editor
Bill Foran is the strength and conditioning coach for the Miami Heat. Hehas a masters degree in exercise physiology from Michigan State Universityand is a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Foran resides inPembroke Pines, Florida.
William Kraemer holds multiple appointments at the Pennsylvania StateUniversity, where he is professor of applied physiology, director of research inthe Center for Sports Medicine, associate director of the Center for CellResearch, and faculty member in the kinesiology department and the NollPhysiological Research Center. He is also editor in chief of the Journal ofStrength and Conditioning Research. Dr. Kraemer is a former president and vicepresident of the NSCA this association honored him with the Sport Scientist ofthe Year in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. He is also a fellowof the American College of Sports Medicine.
Nikos Apostolopoulos is the founder of Stretch Therapy and the SerapisStretch Therapy Clinic, the only clinic in the world pioneering in thedevelopment of therapeutic stretching. A graduate of the faculty of physical andhealth education from the University of Toronto, he has over 17 years ofexperience in gross and functional anatomy. Apostolopoulos is currently writinga book on stretch therapy, titled A Functional Clinical Anatomy Technique, aswell as working toward his doctorate of health science. He resides in Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada.
Donald Chu is a licensed physical therapist, a certified athletic trainerthrough the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), and a CSCS throughthe NSCA. Dr. Chu, who earned a PhD in physical therapy and kinesiology fromStanford University, is the program director for the physical therapistassistant program at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. He is also aprofessor emeritus of kinesiology and physical education at California StateUniversity, Hayward. Chu, a former president of the NSCA, lives in Alameda,California.
Peter Twist has coached more than 500 professional athletes including Mark Messier, Pavel Bure, and Hakeem Olajuwan. He has authored dozens of articles and two books on the subjects of conditioningand quickness, including Complete Conditioning for Ice Hockey (1997 HumanKinetics). Having coached in the NHL for seven years, Twist is currently thepresident of the Hockey Conditioning Coaches Association and coeditor of theJournal of Hockey Conditioning & Player Development. Twist resides in NorthVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
E. Paul Roetert is the former administrator of sport science for theUnited States Tennis Association (USTA) and is currently the executive directorof the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) for Human Kinetics. Roetertreceived his PhD in biomechanics from the University of Connecticut and is afellow in the American College of Sports Medicine. Roetert is an accomplishedwriter who has coauthored Complete Conditioning for Tennis (1998 Human Kinetics)and published articles in numerous scientific publications. Roetert lives inChampaign, Illinois.
George Blough Dintiman has more than 30 years of experience working onspeed improvement with athletes at all levelsfrom beginners to the pros. Theauthor of 30 books and three videos on speed improvement and health and wellnesstopics, Dintiman also is an NFL speed consultant and an internationallyrecognized authority on speed improvement for team sports. He is a board memberof the International Sports Science Association and is president of the NationalAssociation of Speed and Explosion. Dintiman resides in Kill Devil Hills, NorthCarolina.
A running coach for the past 38 years, Jack Daniels is currently aprofessor of physical education and is a distance running coach at StateUniversity of New York at Cortland. He received his doctoral degree in exercisephysiology at the University of Wisconsin. Named The Worlds Best Coachby Runners World magazine, he has led Cortland runners to seven NCAA DivisionIII National Championships, 24 individual national titles, and more than 110 All-America awards. Daniels resides in Cortland, New York.
As the strength and conditioning director for the United States OlympicCommittee, Eric Lawson oversees programs for resident athletes at theColorado Springs, Lake Placid, and Chula Vista training facilities. Lawson is amember of the NSCA and has been published in Skating Magazine, Olympic Coach,Conditioning Press, and USA Volleyball Magazine. He is also slated to be thestrength and conditioning physiologist at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,Australia. Lawson resides in Monument, Colorado.
With seven years of professional baseball experience, Fernando Montes is now the head strength and conditioning coach for the Cleveland Indians. He isalso the founder and president of the Professional Baseball S&C CoachSociety. Montes resides in North Ridgeville, Ohio.
Pete Draovitch has been the personal physical therapist for PGA Tour starGreg Norman since 1993. He also serves as physical therapist and wellnessconsultant for Martin Memorial Medical Center as president and CEO of TheBodyguards, Inc. and as spring training physical therapy consultant for the St.Louis Cardinals baseball organization. Draovitch holds a masters degree inphysical therapy and sports medicine/physical education. He is a member of theAmerican Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic TrainersAssociation, and the NSCA.
Courtney Carter is the first full-time female strength and conditioningcoach ever at the University of Nebraska. Throughout her career, she has workedwith 15 national championship/conference championship teams, covering fivedifferent sports. Carter has a masters in physical education and is a certifiedstrength and conditioning coach (CSCS). A member of the NSCA, she lives inLin
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