Understanding Physical Conditioning

Download or read book Understanding Physical Conditioning written by Luis Preto and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being one of the most talked about areas within sports training, physical conditioning continues to rattle most trainees. With the four traditional categories of flexibility, speed, strength and endurance being subdivided into what sometimes seems to be a never-ending number of training variables, athletes find it extremely difficult and confusing to manage so many variables within their limited training schedule. Contrary to this ever so common approach to physical conditioning, this book presents readers with a multidisciplinary perspective in which physical conditioning is merged with the anatomical and physiological analysis of human movement. This interaction results in an innovative and surprisingly practical understanding of physical conditioning's categories and training methods, namely by: - Reducing the topic of physical conditioning to its true three components; - Explaining how these components can easily be trained together with sport specific training using a two factor or single factor training model; - Conveying a practical understanding of how physical abilities' training stimulus should vary qualitatively between different sports as well as quantitatively over the course of training. Furthermore, knowing that the coaching community is mostly comprised of people who, despite their passion, lack the time and background to go through numerous complex articles on scientific research, this book's straight forward analysis, easy writing as well as practical examples and exercises, enable it to answer the sporting community's long-lasting doubts with unmatched precision and simplicity.