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Training For Sport

Paul Mason

4 books in this series

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  Each title includes training exercises, cross-training activities, nutrition advice and recipes.
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  Features sports that fit into each category and the sportsmen and women who typify these sports, giving a breakdown of their fitness regime and physical suitability.

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  Improving Endurance

  Contents:
  
  • What is endurance?
  • Endurance sports
  • Endurance athletes
  • Training the heart
  • Training the lungs
  • Aerobic exercise
  • Anaerobic exercise
  • Warming up and cooling down
  • Training for endurance
  • Recovery
  • Nutrition for endurance training
  • Nutrition for endurance competitions
  • Hydration
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index
  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6141 8

  
  

  221x277mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
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  Improving Flexibility

  Contents:
  

  • Bend your body
  • Flexibility in sport
  • Joint structure
  • Muscles
  • Flexibility and technique
  • How to stretch
  • Static stretching
  • Passive stretching
  • Dynamic stretching
  • Assisted stretching
  • Warming up
  • Warming down
  • Hydration and nutrition
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6140 1

  
  

  225x273mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
  
   

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  Improving Speed

  Contents:
  

  • The need for speed
  • Types of speed
  • Muscles for speed
  • Building up power
  • Energy for speed
  • Speed endurance
  • Principles of speed training
  • Building a training programme
  • Warming up and cooling down
  • Technique
  • Flexibility
  • Reaction times
  • Nutrition and hydration
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6143 2

  
  

  224x277mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
  
   

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  Improving Strength and Power

  Contents:
  

  • What is strength?
  • Strength in sport
  • Body shapes
  • Somatotyping
  • Strength and weight
  • Core stability
  • Increasing strength
  • Training for maximum strength
  • Training for power
  • Training for strength endurance
  • Overtraining
  • Biomechanics and levers
  • Nutrition and hydration
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6142 5

  
  

  224x273mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB