Full Description
Design a training facility and craft strength and conditioning programs to meet the needs of your athletes.
Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities will help you make the right choices, apply the best methods, offer superior training experiences and outcomes, and be a more successful professional in a very competitive industry. Leading strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle filters out the faulty information, failed approaches, and trendy training techniques and simply shares what works best and why.
Inside you'll find the following:
7 weightroom behavior guidelines
8 rules for successful program design
8 essential mobility, activation, and dynamic warm-up exercises
3 common problems in developing speed training programs and how to avoid them
14 impactful ways to be a more effective coach during training sessions
Strength and Conditioning Coaching provides a science-meets-practice perspective on the following questions and more: Why does core training keep evolving? Why is off-season aerobic conditioning often detrimental to athletes' performance? Why are unilateral lower-body exercises so important in athlete performance training? Boyle answers them all in his unique no-nonsense, insightful style.
The author also delves into each of the four most common strength and conditioning training methods, their pros and cons, and how to apply them for athletes of all developmental stages and abilities. Learn more about important topics that every strength and conditioning professional should know:
Modern facility design
Equipment selection
Strength and power programming
Conditioning programming
Speed development
Strength and Conditioning Coaching is a vital resource that can help you maximize training results for your clients and athletes.
This title was previously released as Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, Second Edition.
Contents
Foreword by Dan John
Chapter 1. Designing and Equipping Your Facility
Chapter 2. Building a Strong Program Foundation
Chapter 3. Designing the Perfect Program
Chapter 4. Core Training, Mobility, Activation and Warm-Ups
Chapter 5. Explosive Training
Chapter 6. Strength Training
Chapter 7. Lower-Body Training
Chapter 8. Upper-Body Pulling and Pressing
Chapter 9. Choosing a System of Training
Chapter 10. Creating Efficient and Effective Workouts
Chapter 11. Speed Development
Chapter 12. Conditioning
Chapter 13. Computerizing Your Program
Chapter 14. Designing Programs for Teams or Groups
Chapter 15. Parting Words: The Mirror and the Window
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