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Sports speed / George Blough Dintiman, Robert D. Ward, Tom Tellez.

By: Dintiman, George B.
Contributor(s): Ward, Robert D, 1933- | Téllez, Tom, 1933- | Dintiman, George B. Sport speed.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, 1997Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0880116072.Subject(s): Physical education and training | Sprinting | SpeedDDC classification: 613.707
Contents:
Introduction -- Assessing your speed -- Seven steps to improving playing speed -- Step 1: basic training - Step 2: strength and power training -- Step 3: ballistics -- Step 4: plyometrics -- Step 5: sport loading -- Step 6: sprinting form and speed endurance -- Step 7: overspeed training -- Designing your personal program -- Sports speed nutrition / Barry Sears.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 613.707 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00010722
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 613.707 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 24/01/2022 00010721
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A guide for athletes in all sports. In this edition, the author devotes a chapter to each of the seven steps to speed improvement and includes a chapter on nutrition for speed development. Over 92 speed and quickness exercises and sample training programmes are also incorporated.

Rev. ed. of: Sport speed. c1988.

Bibliography: p. 237-240. - Includes index.

Introduction -- Assessing your speed -- Seven steps to improving playing speed -- Step 1: basic training - Step 2: strength and power training -- Step 3: ballistics -- Step 4: plyometrics -- Step 5: sport loading -- Step 6: sprinting form and speed endurance -- Step 7: overspeed training -- Designing your personal program -- Sports speed nutrition / Barry Sears.

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