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Elite players, coaches, and trainers rely on plyometrics to develop power, agility, speed, strength, body control, balance, and overall athletic performance. In this authoritative guide to plyometrics, you’ll learn the most effective drills and exercises, and you’ll see the results. In Plyometric Anatomy, authors Derek Hansen and Steve Kennelly share the training they have used to propel athletes at all levels to success. Together they detail 94 plyometric exercises, along with 78 variations that increase in difficulty for continued development over time. With content on bilateral exercises, unilateral exercises, core exercises, and plyometric combinations, it’s all here.

Best of all, you will go beyond the instruction and see the muscles in action. Each exercise is fully illustrated with detailed anatomical art to showcase how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. You will learn how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect development, recovery, and ultimately performance. With comprehensive coverage and expert insights, Plyometric Anatomy takes the guesswork out of training and provides the best tool to help you achieve dynamic strength and explosive power. It is the ultimate illustrative resource for maximizing athletic power production. [editor summary]

Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat body stiffness and achy joints, and rehabilitate injuries . In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Kelly Starrett — founder of MobilityWod.com — shares his revolutionary approach to mobility and maintenance of the human body and teaches you how to hack your own human movement, allowing you to live a healthy, happier, more fulfilling life. Performance is what drives the human animal, but the human animal can be brought to an abrupt halt by dysfunctional movement patterns. Oftentimes, the factors that impede performance are invisible to not only the untrained eye, but also the majority of athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. In this one of a kind training manual, Starrett maps out a detailed system comprised of more than two hundred techniques and illuminates common movement errors that cause injury and rob you of speed, power, endurance, and strength. Whether you are a professional athlete, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from restrictions, Becoming a Supple Leopard, will teach you how to maintain your body and harness your genetic potential. [editor summary]

This book details the principles, knowledge, and skills that will help coaches build a foundation for their decisions and actions. Working through the text, coaches will define their philosophy, identify their objectives, and determine their coaching style. Next, coaches will learn how to become skilled communicators and motivators by applying psychological principles and recommendations for positive management of athletes’ behavior. Knowing the skills required for each sport is as important as knowing how to teach and shape those skills. With Successful Coaching, coaches will become more effective instructors as they learn the games approach to teaching technical and tactical skills, a proven method of helping athletes become smart tactical players of their sports. [editor summary]

The Science of Gymnastics is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning this most demanding of sports. Drawing on cutting edge scientific research, and including contributions from leading international sport scientists and experienced coaches, the book represents an important link between theory and performance. With useful summaries, data and review questions included throughout, the book examines every key aspect of gymnastic training and performance. [editor summary]

un ouvrage essentiel à la compréhension de ces différentes techniques, et qui permettra aux athlètes, à leurs entraîneurs et à leur encadrement médical de véritablement mettre en œuvre des politiques de récupération efficaces et adaptées aux spécificités de l’athlète, mais aussi à celles de son sport et de son calendrier sportif.

Près de 1000 articles scientifiques du monde entier ont ainsi été analysés et synthétisés, afin d’offrir au lecteur des informations fiables – loin de l’empirisme ou des effets de mode qui ne garantissent évidemment pas toujours la réussite…

En complément de cette analyse pertinente des différentes méthodes de récupération, est également proposé au lecteur soucieux de se tenir informé des dernières avancées sur cette épineuse question, l’ensemble des contributions du colloque qui s’est tenu à l’INSEP, les 10 et 11 décembre 2009, et qui portait sur la récupération : des intervenants français, européens, canadiens, et australiens ont, pendant deux jours, interrogé pratiques et innovations technologiques, là encore avec un seul objectif : offrir les garanties d’un récupération efficace.

Que vous soyez une personne qui désire entreprendre un programme d’entraînement cardio, un sportif du dimanche, un compétiteur redoutable ou un athlète chevronné, Entraînement cardio répondra à plusieurs de vos questions. Comment améliorer sa performance ? Comment prévenir et traiter le surentraînement, les crampes musculaires, les courbatures ? Comment entretenir sa motivation ? En supplément plus de 100 séances d’exercices et 25 plans d’entraînement pour mieux performer. [résumé de l'éditeur]

The book is organized into three parts. Part I introduces the visuomotor system and two processing systems that work together to permit the great range of actions humans perform. Eye-tracking technology is reviewed along with new possibilities for measuring what athletes really see when they perform. In part II, the author presents a unique framework of gaze control. Readers will learn how skilled athletes control the gaze to gain optimal control of their attention and decision making. The quiet eye phenomenon, measurement, and training are also addressed. Part III describes the three-step decision-training model and its application to how coaches design practice, provide feedback, use questions, and give instructions. Case studies show how others are using the model and the seven decision-training tools." [editor summary]