Sports training principles / Frank W. Dick.
By: Dick, Frank W.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : A & C Black, 1997Edition: 3rd ed.Description: ix, 309 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0713641495.Subject(s): Physical education and trainingDDC classification: 796.4077Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 796.4077 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016331 |
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.