Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health

Download or read book Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health written by Thomas Davin Fahey and published by Benjamin Cummings. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. For anyone interested in fitness, conditioning, and weight training.