High-performance training for sports / David Joyce, Daniel Lewindon, editors.
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TextPublication details: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2014]Description: xiv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN: - 1450444822
- 9781450444828
- 613.7 JOY
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 613.7 JOY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100621508 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today's athletes.
High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they've used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby.
Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas:
* Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training.
* Translate strength into speed.
* Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power.
* Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season.
* Minimise the interference effect.
* Design energy-specific performance programmes.
Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Understanding modern athletes / David Joyce and Daniel Lewindon -- Evaluating athletic capacities / Mike McGuigan -- Developing younger athletes / Rhodri S. Lloyd and Jon L. Oliver -- Enhancing movement efficiency / Craig Ranson and David Joyce -- Stabilising and strengthening the core / Andy Barr and Daniel Lewindon -- Optimising flexibility / Sue Falsone -- Monitoring the training response / Aaron J. Coutts and Stuart Cormack -- Retraining the injured athlete / Daniel Lewindon and David Joyce -- Customizing the warm-up and cool-down / Rett Larson -- Fine-tuning motor control / Frans Bosch -- Using strength platforms for explosive performance / Daniel Baker -- Successfully translating strength into speed / Derek M. Hansen -- Optimising training for jumping and landing / Jeremy Sheppard -- Increasing agility / Sophia Nimphius -- Generating anaerobic power / David Martin -- Establishing endurance for repeated performance / Darcy Norman -- Boosting aerobic capacity / Grégory Dupont -- Optimising effective cross-training methods / Anthony Rice and Chris Spinks -- Planning a performance programme / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Designing energy-specific programmes / Joel Jamieson -- Minimising the interference effect / Glenn Stewart -- Optimising preseason training in team sports / Darren Burgess -- Peaking for competition in individual sports / G. Gregory Haff -- Maintaining an in-season conditioning edge / Stuart Yule -- Recovering effectively in high-performance sports / Christian J. Cook, Liam P. Kilduff and Marc R. Jones.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
David Joyce is one of the first people in the world to lecture on and hold postgraduate master's degrees encompassing both sports science and sports medicine. He has trained, rehabilitated, and maintained multiple World and Olympic Champions, along with more than 100 national champions and 300 national representatives. The first athletic performance coach in history to work with Team China after having worked with another national Olympic team, Joyce is currently head of athletic performance at Western Force, the most traveled team in world sport, in the toughest club rugby competition in the world spanning Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He lives in Western Australia.
Daniel Lewindon is uniquely qualified with postgraduate master's degrees in both sports science and sports medicine. He has more than 12 years' experience working full-time in elite sport, and is currently a physiotherapist for the Rugby Football Union, working as part of a world leading Performance Team to ensure the health and performance of England's best rugby players.