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Strength & Power for Young Athletes
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Product Description
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Help your athletes get the training edge they need today to become the sportsstars of tomorrow. With Strength and Power for Young Athletes, you candevelop strength-training programs specifically tailored to children that willdramatically increase their athletic performance.
This proven, research-based text provides young people ages 7 to 15 with a solidfitness base, offering aerobic activities and stretching exercises. It alsopresents the principles and practical applications for developing both age- andsport-specific strength-training programs.
There are many benefits of starting children on a strength training program atan early age, including increased strength and power, improved body composition, greater self-esteem, reduction in sports training injuries, and enhanced sports performance.
Written by two of the leading experts on youth training, Strength and Powerfor Young Athletes offers 82 free weight, body weight, machine, cord, andmedicine ball exercises for building muscle strength. You will learn how toincorporate these progressive resistance exercises into your young athletestraining programs with the help of 135 photos that emphasize safety and correcttechnique.
The authors have provided three age-appropriate strength-training programs forchildren 7 to 9 years, 10 to 12 years, and 13 to 15 years. Youll also findconditioning programs for power sports, jumping sports, striking sports, andendurance sports.
Whether youre a parent, coach, strength and conditioning specialist, physicaleducator, or fitness professional, Strength and Power for Young Athleteswill give you the essential knowledge and teaching skills to safely andeffectively instruct young people on strength-training programs. Then you canhelp young athletes get the training edge they need today to become the sportsstars of tomorrow.
About the Author
As a leading researcher and practitioner in the area of youth fitness, AveryFaigenbaum, EdD, CSCS, has had years of experience working with children andadolescents in the weight room. He is currently an assistant professor ofexercise physiology at the University of Massachusetts, working as a pediatricexercise scientist as well as fitness practitioner and youth volunteer.
A well-recognized and sought-after speaker, Faigenbaum lectures across thecountry to sports medicine and fitness organizations. He serves on the editorialboards of the Strength and Conditioning Journal, Journal of Strength andConditioning Research, and ACSMs Health and Fitness Journal.Faigenbaum is certified by the NSCA, ACSM, and the United States WeightliftingAssociation. He has also been appointed to the Massachusetts Governors Committeeon Physical Fitness and Sports and elected to serve as NSCA Massachusetts StateDirector. Faigenbaum lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
With more than 35 years of experience in strength training as an athlete, coach,teacher, professor, researcher, writer, and speaker, Wayne Westcott, PhD,CSCS, is recognized as a leading authority on fitness. He has served as astrength training consultant for numerous organizations and programs, includingNautilus, the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the NationalSports Performance Association, the International Association of FitnessProfessionals (IDEA), the American Council on Exercise, the YMCA of the USA, andthe National Youth Sports Safety Foundation. He was awarded the IDEA LifetimeAchievement Award in 1993 and was honored with a Healthy American Fitness LeaderAward in 1995.
Westcott is the fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy,Massachusetts. He has authored eleven books on strength training, includingthree with Human Kinetics Building Strength and Stamina (1996), StrengthTraining Past 50 (1998), and Complete Conditioning for Golf (1999).He has published more than 400 articles in professional fitness journals and haswritten a weekly fitness column for one of Bostons largest newspapers since1986. He has served on the editorial boards of Prevention, Shape, MensHealth, Fitness, Club Industry, American Fitness Quarterly, and Nautilus.Westcott lives in Abington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Claudia.
Table of Contents
Part I: Strength Development
Chapter 1. Ready to Train
Chapter 2. Program Prescriptions
Chapter 3. Correct Technique and Injury Prevention
Chapter 4. Eating for Strength
Part II: Equipment and Exercise
Chapter 5. Free Weights
Chapter 6. Weight Machines
Chapter 7. Cords and Balls
Chapter 8. Bodyweight Exercises
Part III: Age Group Strength Programs
Chapter 9. Mighty Mites: 7- to 9-year olds
Chapter 10. Junior Builders: 10- to 12-year olds
Chapter 11. Teens of Steel: 13- to 15-year olds
Part IV: Strength Programs for Sports
Chapter 12. General Sport Conditioning Programs
Chapter 13. Power Sports: Football, Rugby, Wrestling, Gymnastics, Track andField
Chapter 14. Jumping Sports: Basketball, Volleyball, Netball, Dance, FigureSkating
Chapter 15. Striking Sports: Baseball, Softball, Tennis, Hockey, Golf
Chapter 16. Endurance Sports: Soccer, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Cross Country,Swimming
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