Sports-Specific Training: Enhance Your Athletic Performance

A practical guide for athletes of any level who want training that matches the real demands of their sport. You will learn how to analyze your sport, develop strength, power, speed and endurance, and pull everything together into a periodized training plan, with chapters on mobility, recovery, mental toughness, nutrition and injury prevention.

What's inside

• Foundations of Sports-Specific Training - Understand specificity, analyze your sport's demands and build a solid base
• Strength and Conditioning for Peak Performance - Strength training, plyometrics, speed and agility work explained for athletes
• The Energy Systems: Fueling Your Efforts - How aerobic and anaerobic energy systems work and how to train each
• Flexibility and Mobility: The Unsung Heroes - Static and dynamic stretching methods and how to fit them into training
• Recovery and Regeneration: Recharge Your Batteries - Sleep, active recovery, recovery nutrition and the early signs of overtraining
• Mental Toughness: The Winning Edge - Visualization, goal setting and resilience techniques for performing under pressure
• Nutrition for Performance: Fueling Your Body Right - Macronutrients, micronutrients, hydration and fueling around training and competition
• Injury Prevention and Management - Common sports injuries, prevention habits, the RICE protocol and returning to play
• Putting It All Together: Designing Your Training Program - Use periodization, progress tracking and a support team to plan your season

Details

• Format: PDF ebook (US Letter size)
• Length: 31 pages, 9 chapters
• Instant digital download - read on phone, tablet or computer, or print at home

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.