'Medicine Ball For All' Training Handbook - Softcover

Patrick Mediate; Avery Faigenbaum

9781585189007: 'Medicine Ball For All' Training Handbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585189006 ISBN 13: 9781585189007

Publisher: Coaches Choice, 2004

Provides the most complete medicine ball training guide for youth, adults, and seniors ever written. Begins with the basics of medicine ball training and continues through advanced program design considerations, including every step necessary to develop a successful conditioning program using medicine balls for individuals of all ages and fitness levels. Covers potential health and fitness benefits, how to choose the right medicine balls, safety considerations, training principles, program variables, individual evaluation, program prescription, warm-up and warm-down exercises, lower and upper body, specialty, reaction, stability, core, and flexibility exercises, periodization, progression levels, samples workouts, special populations and much, much more. Contains dozens of photographs and illustrations.

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About the Author:

Patrick Mediate, M.Ed., CSCS*D, is a physical education instructor and track and field coach at Greenwich High School in Greenwhich, Connecticut and is also a personal trainer. He has served as Vice President of Health for the Eastern District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance and presently sits on the Board of Directors of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Avery D. Faigenbaum, Ed.D., CSCS, is an associate professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at The College of New Jersey. He is a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of strength and conditioning and lectures across the country to fitness and sports medicine organizations. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Faigenbaum has published over 100 articles on fitness and conditioning and in the author of two books.

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