Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball

Name: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball
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ISBN: 9781932549492

ISBN-10: 1932549498

ISBN-13: 9781932549492

Edition: 4th

Authors: Robert G. Price

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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date basketball-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 world-wide. This book features year-round basketball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other basketball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players increasing strength, power, agility, and overall quickness on the court, leading to an increase in rebounds, steals, blocked shots, and overall defensive efficiency.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 4th
Publisher: Price World Publishing
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder. He has helped thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their goals. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder of the #1 Sports-Training website on the Internet.




Basketball-Specific Training


Introduction


Off-season Program


Preseason Program


In-season Program


Basketball Running and Conditioning Program


Protein: How Much is Enough?


Post-Workout Recovery: A Must for Athletes


Pre-Event Fueling for Peak Performance



Getting Started


Warming Up


Cooling Down


Abs


Stretching


Proper Form


Proper Breathing



Recommended Exercises


Substituting Similar Exercises


Chest Exercises


Back (Lats) Exercises


Shoulders Exercises


Triceps Exercises


Biceps/Forearms Exercises


Legs Exercises



The Necessities


Perfecting Your Technique


Estimating Your One-Rep Max


The Different Folks, Different Strokes Principle


Overtraining and Staleness


The Declaration of Variation


Muscle Fibers


Training Techniques


When to Increase


Safety Reminders


Record Keeping


Test Yourself


Conclusion



Supplemental 4-Week Programs


Endurance/Stamina/Fat-burning Programs


General Fitness/Power Programs


Strength Programs