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Sports training principles / Frank W. Dick.

By: Dick, Frank W.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : A & C Black, 1997Edition: 3rd ed.Description: ix, 309 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0713641495.Subject(s): Physical education and trainingDDC classification: 796.4077
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1: Rods to levers -- The working parts -- Structural changes in the growing child -- Basic mechanics -- Part 2: The living machine -- Nutrition -- The oxygen transporting system -- The working muscle -- The fluid systems -- The hormones -- Physiological differences in the growing child -- Part 3: Mission control -- Victor in mente, victor in corpore -- Technical training -- Psychological changes and the growing child -- Part 4: The language of training theory -- Fitness -- Theory and practice of strength development -- Theory and practice of speed development -- Theory and practice of endurance development -- Theory and practice of mobility development -- Evaluation in sport -- Part 5: Planning the programme -- Periodising the year -- Variations in periodisation -- Units, microcycles and macrocycles -- Adaptation to loading -- Training v straining -- Competition period -- Postscript.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 796.4077 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00016331
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Newly revised, "a valuable summary of performance and training" (British Journal of Physical Education)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: Rods to levers -- The working parts -- Structural changes in the growing child -- Basic mechanics -- Part 2: The living machine -- Nutrition -- The oxygen transporting system -- The working muscle -- The fluid systems -- The hormones -- Physiological differences in the growing child -- Part 3: Mission control -- Victor in mente, victor in corpore -- Technical training -- Psychological changes and the growing child -- Part 4: The language of training theory -- Fitness -- Theory and practice of strength development -- Theory and practice of speed development -- Theory and practice of endurance development -- Theory and practice of mobility development -- Evaluation in sport -- Part 5: Planning the programme -- Periodising the year -- Variations in periodisation -- Units, microcycles and macrocycles -- Adaptation to loading -- Training v straining -- Competition period -- Postscript.

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