Developing Agility and Quickness (Sport Performance)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 073608326X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Drawing on the resources and expertise of more than 30,000 professionals in strength training and conditioning, sport science, performance research, education, and sports medicine, the NSCA is the world’s most trusted source of knowledge and training guidelines for coaches and athletes. The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is the w
Make Developing Agility and Quickness a key part of your conditioning program, and get a step ahead of the competition.. The ball handler who fakes and then drives past a defender for an easy score. NSCA hand-picked its top experts to present the best training advice, drills, and programs for optimizing athletes’ linear and lateral movements. These are all reasons agility and quickness are such prized physical attributes in modern sport. A pass rusher who leaves a would-be blocker in his wake on the way to sacking the quarterback. Genetic limitations, technical deficiencies, and inferior training activities are among the major obstacles. A setter who manages to maneuver both body and ball in the blink of an eye to make the perfect pass for the kill and match-winning point. Efforts to become markedly quicker or more agile, however, aren’t always successful. Developing Agility and Quickness helps athletes blow past those barriers thanks to the top sport conditioning authority in
To help athletes be the best they can, today's coaches need to have the latest advice on training agility and quickness, which this book provides.”Eleanor Frankel -- Editor in Chief, Training & Conditioning magazine . “Developing Agility and Quickness bridges the gap between science and practical training for agility and quickness. It’s an invaluable resource for improved sport performance.”Lee Brown, EdD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, FACSM -- Director of the Center for Sport Performance at California State University, Fullerton; Author of Training for Speed, Ag
Driver said Excellent product. This book is excellent for agility and quickness.It doesn't only give you drills but explains the foundation of which agility and quickness are built from a motot development outlook.It gives you a brief summary of factors such as reaction time,anticipation,perception,arousal and information processing though not termed as such.It also gives you types of instructional approaches and methods you can use to test and perform the drills.Unlike other drill books that stick solemnly to drill this book expands on the scietific aspect of performance.Great for people who understand the science behind sport training.. P. McCall said Add this resource to your training library. If you are a fitness professional or strength coach and work with individuals who want to improve their athletic performance this book is an excellent resource for the principles and techniques related to training agility and quickness. If you are an athlete or coach who is looking for new drills or ideas for improving your game or practice, this book has an number of different exercises with illustrations and pictures to show how to set up and run the drills. The best thing about the way that Jay laid it out and wrote it is that you don't need a technical background in exercise science to be able to apply the ideas to your next trainin. MattSz said A decent resource for those beginning in the field of athletic performance training.. I bought this book hoping there would be "new age" philosophies on agility and quickness training. Unfortunately the book covered the basics which was just a review of every other published work out there. The drills listed in the second half of the book were ok, but again, very repetitive to every other resource online or published. I thought I would be getting a lot more information and drills I could use in my profession, but I came away with about 5 drills out of the whole book. I would not recommend to anyone unless you are just starting out with speed and quickness training.