Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels: Workouts for Agility, Speed and Power

by James C. Radcliffe

Get ahead of the competition with over 100 muscle-coordinating exercises and twenty sports-specific workouts. Push your muscle development and athletic abilities to incredible new heights with Functional Training for Athletes of All Levels. Functional training conditions your body to respond to the strenuous demands of athletic competition. This method goes far beyond standard isolation movements, done sitting down, that simply increase muscular bulk. Functional training coordinates your muscles to work together to produce explosive power, tightrope-walker balance, and catlike agility. With over 100 exercises—illustrated with step-by-step photos—and twenty sport-specific workouts, this book will help you acquire the athletic movement skills necessary to maximize your performance in any sport. *Develop a rock-solid core for supreme stability *Strengthen your trunk for explosive power *Sharpen fast-twitch muscles for lightning-quick responses *Coordinate your muscles for full body control *Enhance your stabilizers for quick, agile movementFunctional Training for Athletes at All Levels includes customized sport-specific workouts •Baseball •Basketball •Bicycling •Football •Golf •Gymnastics •Hockey •Lacrosse •Rugby •Skiing •Soccer •Softball •Swimming •Tennis •Track & Field •Volleyball •Wrestling

Genres: Fitness, Sports

373 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 12, 2007

Reviews

[Tim Gannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

It discusses training for athletes and fitness geeks. It briefly reviews warm-up, core training, strength training, power training, sprint training and agility training. The majority of the text provides various exercises for these various domains. It's very basic. It doesn't go into the different theories on these types of training.

[Jorge Reyes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Siguiendo con la pragmática deportiva, a veces excesiva y sin reflexión, este libro cumple con lo deseado, explora diferentes tipos de fuerza con la metodología adecuada, el autor es un verdadero experto, altamente recomendable para cualquier entrenador, del deporte que sea.