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Periodization Training for Sports
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Product Description
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Periodization is all about maximizing your training. By varying the timingand intensity of your workouts, you will get the greatest gains in strength,speed, power, and endurance.
Periodization Training for Sports is useful for any athlete at any leveland offers sport-specific programs to help you reach your personal conditioning goals. This book gives you a complete set of short- and long-term workouts for35 sports, tailored to the functional needs of each sport.
Tudor Bompa developed the concept of periodization in 1963. His schedules fortraining were used by athletes in eastern bloc countries as they rose todominate international sporting events. He is widely regarded as the worldsforemost expert on periodization, and his methods will give you the sametraining edge he has provided so many Olympic and world champions.
Periodization Training for Sports offers unparalleled depth and breadthof training information. This is the only book that not only explains andillustrates how to properly apply the concept of periodization for strength butalso includes specific exercises for speed, power, and endurance to improveathletic performance. More than 230 illustrations, tables, and photos make theprograms easy to follow for superior conditioning and optimal results.
You will learn to work smarter-not necessarily harder-for more gains with Periodization Training for Sports. The techniques described in this book have beenextremely successful and have led to the highest levels of athletic achievement.Put periodization to work for you and perform at your maximum potential when itcounts.
About the Author
Tudor Bompa is recognized worldwide as the foremost expert onperiodization training. He first developed the concept of "periodization ofstrength" in Romania in 1963, as he helped the eastern bloc countries riseto dominance in the athletic world. Since then, Bompa has used his system totrain 11 Olympic Games medalists, and periodization training has become astandard method for conditioning champion athletes.
A full professor at York University in Toronto, Bompa has authored severalimportant books on physical conditioning, including Serious Strength Training(Human Kinetics, 1998), Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training(Human Kinetics, 1999), and Power Training for Sport: Plyometrics for MaximumPower Development, as well as numerous articles on the subject. His work hasbeen translated into nine languages, and he has made presentations onperiodization training in more than 30 countries. His publications, conferences,and ideas are highly regarded and enthusiastically sought by many topprofessional athletes and training specialists. Bompa is married and lives inSharon, Ontario.
Bompa currently offers a certification program in training, planning, andperiodization called "The Tudor Bompa Training System." The program isdesigned for personal trainers, instructors, coaches, athletes, and educators.For more information, contact Dr. Tudor Bompa, P.O. Box 95, Sharon, ON, LOG 1VO,Canada.
Table of Contents
Part I: Foundations of Strength Training
Chapter 1. Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Power in Sports
Chapter 2. How Muscles Respond to Strength Training
Chapter 3. Periodization Principles for Strength
Chapter 4. Program Design
Chapter 5. Short-Term Planning: Microcycles
Chapter 6. The Yearly Training Plan: Periodization of Strength
Part II: Periodized Strength Training
Chapter 7. Phase 1: Anatomical Adaptation
Chapter 8. Phase 2: Hypertrophy
Chapter 9. Phase 3: Maximum Strength
Chapter 10. Phase 4: Conversion Phase-Conversion to Power
Chapter 11. Conversion to Muscular Endurance
Chapter 12. Strength Training During the Competitive and Transition Phases
Chapter 13. Fatigue, Muscle Soreness, and Recovery
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