BOOK: "ATHLETIC STRENGTH FOR WOMEN"
BY DAVID OLIVER
Product Description
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Book Overview:
......With women’s sport performance at an
all-time high and continuing to rise, you need
to be faster, stronger, and more agile in
order to compete. Yet, until now, no training
manual has specifically addressed female
athletes’ physiological, biomechanical, and
anatomical needs.
......Athletic Strength for Women presents effective
exercise prescriptions to help you build a strength
base and then convert that strength to speed and
power in competition. The result is not only
better performance but also fewer injuries.
......For example, exercises and programs for
the lower body will improve hamstring and
quadriceps strength ratios, providing enhanced
takeoff power and landing strength and better
protection for the knee.
......More than 120 targeted exercises and drills
are provided to improve throwing, striking,
swinging, and other upper-body skills;
---starting, stopping, jumping, cutting,
turning, pivoting, and other lower-body
maneuvers; and overall power and speed.
......Written by David Oliver, former
strength and conditioning coach for the
U.S. women’s soccer and basketball teams,
and Dana Healy, department head for strength
and conditioning at the United States Olympic
Committee, Athletic Strength for Women contains
general fitness and sport-specific performance
tests. These tests are accompanied by
normative tables that enable athletes to
gauge strengths and weaknesses against
those of their peers and set improvement
goals.
......The book also includes in-season,
off-season, and preseason programs for
all the major participation sports, including
soccer, volleyball, basketball, field hockey,
lacrosse, swimming, and track and field. No
matter what your sport, prepare your body to
perform at full potential. The programs in
Athletic Strength for Women will help you achieve
a new level of athleticism.
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Oliver, David
Copyright 2005
IN: HK0736046321
248pp
Paperback
Book Overview:
......With women’s sport performance at an
all-time high and continuing to rise, you need
to be faster, stronger, and more agile in
order to compete. Yet, until now, no training
manual has specifically addressed female
athletes’ physiological, biomechanical, and
anatomical needs.
......Athletic Strength for Women presents effective
exercise prescriptions to help you build a strength
base and then convert that strength to speed and
power in competition. The result is not only
better performance but also fewer injuries.
......For example, exercises and programs for
the lower body will improve hamstring and
quadriceps strength ratios, providing enhanced
takeoff power and landing strength and better
protection for the knee.
......More than 120 targeted exercises and drills
are provided to improve throwing, striking,
swinging, and other upper-body skills;
---starting, stopping, jumping, cutting,
turning, pivoting, and other lower-body
maneuvers; and overall power and speed.
......Written by David Oliver, former
strength and conditioning coach for the
U.S. women’s soccer and basketball teams,
and Dana Healy, department head for strength
and conditioning at the United States Olympic
Committee, Athletic Strength for Women contains
general fitness and sport-specific performance
tests. These tests are accompanied by
normative tables that enable athletes to
gauge strengths and weaknesses against
those of their peers and set improvement
goals.
......The book also includes in-season,
off-season, and preseason programs for
all the major participation sports, including
soccer, volleyball, basketball, field hockey,
lacrosse, swimming, and track and field. No
matter what your sport, prepare your body to
perform at full potential. The programs in
Athletic Strength for Women will help you achieve
a new level of athleticism.
--------------------
Oliver, David
Copyright 2005
IN: HK0736046321
248pp
Paperback
