The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 27)

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports #27

by Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field is the most comprehensive and up-to-date track and field-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round track and field-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. Athletes of all events, from sprinting to shot put, have used and benefited from the information in this text.

No other track and field book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

Genres: Fitness

78 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Reviews

[Mike Green]

This book answered the questions I had as a new track and field coach on what were the proper exercises and techniques needed to improve student running and throwing. I’m sticking this one in my bag to take to practice every day

[Shawn]

50% cookie cutter training programs, 25% ubiquitous training knowledge, 25% useful T&F specific info.

If you're going to call your book the "Ultimate" guide to something, you ought to earn that title.