Full Description
The essential guide to strength and conditioning training for anyone delivering targeted exercise programmes.
This guide offers practical tips for planning, delivering and reviewing a range of strength and conditioning exercise programmes suitable for all ages and abilities. Through the participant's development, it focuses on what is needed to improve their performance in areas such as strength, speed, endurance, mobility and movement competency.
It includes up-to-date and evidence-based advice on:
- Activity selection;
- Technique;
- Principles of training;
- Guidelines for coaching.
This is an essential reference for current and prospective coaches from all sporting backgrounds (from grass roots level to elite) as well as strength and conditioning coaches. It is also an ideal addition to all undergraduate and postgraduate sports and health-related exercise courses in schools, colleges and universities.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Training Effects, Responses and Adaptation
1. Fundamentals, Components and Principles
2. Adaptations to Aerobic, Anaerobic, Endocrine Systems and Resistance Training
Part 2: Needs Analysis
3. Performing Needs Analysis
4. Performance Assessment
Part 3: Athlete Development Planning
5. Goal Setting and Performance Targeting
Part 4: Component Development
6. Aerobic Endurance
7. Anaerobic Endurance
8. Stabilisation
9. Muscular Strength and Endurance
10. Speed
11. Agility
12. Power
13. Flexibility
14. Body Composition
Part 5: Program Delivery
15. Practitioner Skills
16. Motivation
Part 6: Training Strategies
17. Periodisation
18. Manipulation of Training Variables
19. Fatigue and Recovery Strategies
Part 7: Nutrition
20. Nutrients
21. Nutritional Deficiencies
22. Energy Balance
Appendices
Glossary
Index
