Athletic Movement Skills
eBook - ePub

Athletic Movement Skills

Training for Sports Performance

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Athletic Movement Skills

Training for Sports Performance

About this book

The unifying theme of every elite athlete and every spectacular performance is movement. It’s the basis for what we recognize as athleticism. It’s the foundation for athletic skill and the essential ingredient to excellence.

Athletic Movement Skills: Training for Sports Performance sets a new standard for athletic assessment and development. This authoritative work presents proven protocols for evaluating, correcting, training and translating athletic movement to athletic dominance.

Combining the latest science and research with cutting-edge techniques and strategies, Athletic Movement Skills will show you how to

- develop multidirectional speed and power for any sport and any position,

- improve jumping and agility with effective plyometric progressions,

- harness and apply power in critical game or match situations,

- evaluate and correct posture and body position,

- reduce injuries and expedite rehabilitation and

- create functional strength progressions that will directly translate to on-field performance.

Hundreds of photo sequences and illustrations plus 10 detailed exercise progressions depict how to refine and perfect speed, agility, strength and power-related movements and skills.

Whether you are working with young or experienced, novice or elite athletes, Athletic Movement Skills is a must-have. It is the definitive development guide for anyone serious about sport performance.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education course and exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes all the course materials and exam.

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Information

Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781492586166
Print ISBN
9781450424127
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Athletic Movement Skills
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Movement Skill Development
  8. Chapter 2: Understanding Biomotor Abilities
  9. Chapter 3: Patterns of Motor System Development
  10. Chapter 4: Efficiently Controlling Forces: Mechanical Functions of Movement
  11. Chapter 5: Importance of Posture in Athletic Movement
  12. Chapter 6: Evaluating Posture
  13. Chapter 7: Designing a Progressive Curriculum: Considerations for Movement Skill Learning and Physio-Mechanical Training
  14. Chapter 8: Developing Running Speed and Agility Skills
  15. Chapter 9: Developing Jumping and Plyometric Skills
  16. Chapter 10: Developing Functional Strength Progressions
  17. Chapter 11: Applying Principles in Practice
  18. References
  19. About the Author
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