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A New York Times bestseller “A smart and important book.”—Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes Publications as varied as Wired, Men’s Fitness, and The New Yorker are abuzz over the New York Times bestseller Faster, Higher, Stronger. In it, veteran journalist Mark McClusky explains how today’s top athletes are turning to advanced technology and savvy science to improve their performance. Sports buffs and readers of David Epstein and Gretchen Reynolds will want to join McClusky as he goes behind the scenes everywhere from the Olympics to the NBA Finals, from the World Series to the Tour de France, and from high-tech labs to neighborhood gyms to show how athletes at every level can incorporate cutting-edge science into their own workouts.
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Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning, and Health presents an overview of basic exercise physiology and the relationship between exercise and health, while describing methods of measuring fitness and training techniques for improving endurance, strength, and flexibility. Sports scientists, coaches, and athletes have developed training techniques such as plyometrics, downhill running, parachute sprinting, interval training, Olympic lifting, over-distance training, medicine ball training, motor unit overload techniques, PNF stretching, and exotic forms of resistive exercise training. These training methods and more are presented in this easy-to-read, comprehensive book. For anyone interested in fitness, conditioning, and weight training.