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Jumping into Plyometrics: 100 Exercises For Power & Strength
First practiced by the dominant Eastern Bloc athletes of the 1970s, today plyometrics has become a mainstream form of training used by serious athletes around the world. The reason is that plyometrics offers athletes at all levels a proven, straightforward way to enhance their athletic abilities and to get an edge on the competition. This second edition of Jumping Into Plyometrics presents 100 illustrated plyometric exercises in seven categories: - Jumps-in-place
- Standing jumps
- Multiple jumps
- Box drills
- Depth jumps
- Bounding
- Medicine ball exercises
Excellent for both recreational and elite athletes, the exercises can be used to improve quickness, speed, and jumping ability while also helping to develop better coordination, body control, and balance. This edition includes the latest research on plyometric training, a new layout with a much-improved format for drills, and sidebars on star athletes who have benefited from plyometrics. Plus, author Donald Chu--who has worked as a consultant for the United States Tennis Association and for teams in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association--gives you instructions and examples of how to choose from the wide selection of exercises to build the ideal plyometric training program for your chosen sport. Jumping Into Plyometrics is the most complete book ever written on this form of explosive power training..
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Progressive Plyometrics for Kids
Three of the most respected and sought-after specialists in the field of exercise and physical conditioning, Donald A. Chu, Avery D. Faigenbaum, and Jeff E. Falkel, present this comprehensive, progressive, cost effective, and developmentally appropriate program of plyometric exercises specifically designed for younger athletes. This book with free DVD begins with easy-to-understand and apply principles, methods, and modes of plyometrics, and offers keys to training success and program design. It then outlines a clear six-week progressive plyometric program, divided into three stages: bronze, silver, and gold. Each of the exercises in the three stages are described in complete detail, including equipment needed, a point-by-point action sequence, and movement-specific coaching points. Multiple clear photographs accompany each exercise. The remarkable and easy-to-navigate 58-minute free DVD that comes with the book allows you to see this all-star team of trainers explain the 45 exercises from the progressive program. Then watch as they coach young athletes through each of the activities in real time, giving coaching points and tips to insure maximum results. Ideal for coaches, teachers, and parents of young athletes at any age and any ability level..
Price: $21.90
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Plyometrics for Athletes at All Levels: A Training Guide for Explosive Speed and Power
Athletes will do anything to be more competitive They'll buy the latest equipment, practice for hours, and even pay a personal trainer for lessons This book offers them a more fundamental way to perform better: improve their overall athleticism. The plyometrics exercises in this book are proven to help athletes progressively enhance their speed, agility, quickness, and jumping ability. The sport-specific workouts are not about getting in shape, they're about getting to a crosscourt backhand faster, reaching higher for a rebound, or making a sharper cut to get open in front of the goal. Plyometrics for Explosive Speed and Power provides the nonprofessional with an easy-to-understand explanation of why plyometrics works, the sports-training research behind it, and how to integrate plyometrics into an overall fitness program. It provides complete illustrated descriptions for each exercise and includes an easy-to-follow index listing each exercise by level and category, based on desired performance outcome. .
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High-Powered Plyometrics
Take your performance to the next level and beyond! Plyometrics is an essential part of conditioning for all sports requiring strength, power, and speed. High-Powered Plyometrics gives you the advanced exercises and programs used by all top athletes and coaches. High-Powered Plyometrics is the most advanced, comprehensive guide to explosive power training for athletes, coaches, and conditioning experts. This book covers it all, from the principles of high-intensity plyometric training to the development of long- and short-term training programs for 21 sports. More than 360 photos illustrate 77 exercises to increase upper-, middle-, and lower-body power. Exercise descriptions and intensity guidelines provide step-by-step instructions to ensure correct technique and proper workload. Go beyond basic conditioning and develop the explosive power that will give you an edge on the competition..
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Plyometric Exercises with the Medicine Ball, 2nd Edition
First successfully used in Eastern Europe, plyometrics is now generally accepted in the United States as a key to the training of successful championship athletes. More recently it has become a part of the general public's exercise regimen. Power requires an integrated program to develop its two complementary components, strength and speed. While weight training develops strength, plyometrics develops the explosiveness called speed. This book describes Plyometric exercises designed for the upper extremities, trunk, and lower extremities. It also includes plyometric exercises for wheelchair athletes. Plyometrics conditions the body through dynamic, resistance exercises. By using a medicine ball to create the necessary resistance for these exercises, you can experience the entire range of motion which resembles that of your sport. These sport-specific exercises are not only more efficient in developing the power you desire, but more interesting, more challenging, and more motivating..
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Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All Sports
"Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All Sports" tells how to develop explosive power, special endurance for explosive movements, speed, coordination, and flexibility It shows ready-made progressions of exercises for an amazing variety of major sports, including all track-and-field events, ball games, and martial arts, and many more. Readers will learn what are the right training loads and how to prevent injuries to ankles, knees, and arms..
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Power Plyometrics: The Complete Program
Plyometrics is a training technique used by many top athletes to improve their speed and power. "Power Plyometrics" allows the reader to assess their individual needs and performance level, and then progress through three increasingly challenging training levels until they are ready to train for their specific sport. This unique volume includes complete plyometric drills for the upper and lower body, trunk and full body exercises, and specific programs for 16 different sports, including football, rugby, and tennis..
Price: $10.12
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Power Training for Sport: Plyometrics for Maximum Power Development
One of the great experiences for a spectator of sports is that wonderful moment when you watch a superb athlete 'explode' in performance In figure skating, basketball, track and field and many other sports, this explosion doesn't just happen. Serious athletes use power training techniques to bring themselves to the point where this explosion can happen...the latest method is called plyometric training. Plyometrics represent an important form of training which results in the development of explosive power and quick reaction based on the improved reactivity of the neuro-muscular system..
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