Cross-Training: The Complete Training Guide for All Sports - Softcover

Gordon Bakoulis Bloch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067174366X ISBN 13: 9780671743666

Publisher: Touchstone, 1992

Synopsis

If you participate in more than one sport or fitness activity, then you are cross-training.

From Simon & Schuster, Gordon Bloch's Cross-Training is the perfect companion to achieve more complete fitness, to relieve the boredom of engaging in only one activity, to combat prohibitive weather conditions, to prevent injuries, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Gordon Bloch is a Simon & Schuster author.

From the Back Cover

If you participate in more than one sport or fitness activity--whether it's golf in the summer and squash in the winter; running on Mondays and tennis on Tuesdays; or a combined daily workout at the gym--then you are cross-training. You may be doing it to achieve more complete fitness; to relieve the boredom of engaging in only one activity; to combat prohibitive weather conditions; or to prevent injuries; but you're doing it, and "Cross-Training" is the perfect companion.

Find out the what, when, why, how, and where of cross-training, and: which muscles are worked by which sports; how to combine your favorite activities into an all-around workout; cross-training to enhance performance in a single sport or event; using cross-training to help avoid injury; working less common activities--like waterskiing, in-line skating, jazz dancing, and boxing--into your cross-training program; and much, much more.

Reviews

Cross-training is a fairly new concept which entails incorporating a variety of physical activities into a personal physical fitness program. Except for books on the subject of training for triathlons, there are relatively few books devoted to the subject of cross-training for individuals who simply want to participate in a variety of physical activities to promote a more balanced approach to fitness. For example, a person whose main activity is running may also bicycle once or twice a week, take an aerobics class, or start a program of power walking. All of these cross-training activities will help maintain the high level of cardiovascular conditioning that running provides, but lessen the chance of injury due to overuse, boredom, or "burnout." This is a good beginner book for anyone interested in starting a cross-training program.
-Susan L. Patton, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067174366X
• ISBN 13: 9780671743666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256