The Art of Sprinting: Techniques for Speed and Performance

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The book covers all sprint events from 60metres to 400 metres, as well as the hurdles and relay; principles of biomechanics, limiting factors and potential areas of capability; training and planning; rehab and avoiding injuries; practical nutritional advice and strength and conditioning. Speed Strength” has forced me to look at speed development through a completely new lens and to change how I coach. However acquiring this technique as a mature athlete requires long term training that is comprehensive. By providing an overview of the principles of sport science and how these are applied in practice, the book is essential reading for students and academics, coaches and performers, physiotherapists, club doctors and professional support staff working in the sport. The key to fun and effectiveness is a coach delivering a variety of effective training activities within certain guidelines.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Any athlete that wants to accelerate fast and have a higher maximum speed will need to be able to develop more power. Seller sent the wrong item, but the wrong book has a very similar cover and seller addressed problem very quickly. Adrian Faccioni (University of Canberra), Vern Gambetta (Gambetta Training Systems), Mike Hurst (Coach of Darren Clark, Maree Holland, Debbie Wells), Ron Wyld (Dalton Grant), Michael Khmel (Matt Shirvington, Patrick Dwyer), Cliff Mallett (Paul Di Bella, Damien Marsh, Sharon Cripps), Esa Peltola (Patrick Johnson), Peter Fortune (Cathy Freeman, Tamsyn Lewis, Lauren Hewitt),Tudor Bidder (Renee Poetschka, Declan Stack, Susan Andrews), Roy Boyd (Kyle Van der Kuyp), Jackie Byrnes (Melinda Gainsford, Jana Pittman), Phil Geddes (David Geddes), Lindsay Watson (Zid Abou Hamed, Todd MacDonald), Colin Wright (Tim Jackson, Jenny Laurendet), Paul Laurendet (Holt Hardy, Marty Byron, Amber Menzies, Clinton Hill), Matt Barber (Dean Capobianco), Andrew Jackson (Rachel Massey-Jackson), Loren Seagrave (Speed Dynamics, Evelyn Ashford, Donovan Bailey), and Dan Pfaff (Bruny Surin, Obadele Thompson, Donovan Bailey). Speed Strength” by Joel Smith is one of the most thought-provoking physical training books I have read in the last few years.In addition, you will get over 10 training programs that reflect the methodology that I’ve successfully used with hundreds of athletes. The description of diet and physiology felt like it was placed in there just to make the book bigger.

Making sure there is technical improvement is the prime indicator of what is good coaching and what is not. AUTHOR: Chris Husbands is a qualified UKA Athletics coach and masters athlete with Belgrave Harriers and runs his own personal training business. A detailed description of the latest technique of Sprinting that is displayed by Athletes like Marion Jones and Maurice Greene.Developing Speed is an It aims to integrate Modern Sprint Training ideas into the methods used with athletes for the improvement of speed. Principles I used to help an athlete to an NCAA championship in the 55m dash in 2010 that I’ve been refining for almost another decade. I’ve been fortunate enough to have participated in a handful of Book Sprints and have been surprised at the outcome each time.