Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health

Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health presents an overview of basic exercise physiology and the relationship between exercise and health, while describing methods of measuring fitness and training techniques for improving endurance, strength, and flexibility. Sports scientists, coaches, and athletes have developed training techniques such as plyometrics, downhill running, parachute sprinting, interval training, Olympic lifting, over-distance training, medicine ball training, motor unit overload techniques, PNF stretching, and exotic forms of resistive exercise training. These training methods and more are presented in this easy-to-read, comprehensive book.Fahey, Thomas D. is the author of 'Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health', published 2000 under ISBN 9780205313549 and ISBN 020531354X.