The New Power Program: New Protocols for Maximum Strength - Softcover

Colgan PhD, Dr Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896817262 ISBN 13: 9781896817262

Publisher: Apple Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed scientist and best selling author, Dr. Michael Colgan explains the right way to gain maximum strength, speed, and endurance.

LARGE FORMAT - Fully Illustrated - 384 pages - Quality Softcover

Although this best selling book is about weight training, it is NOT a book about bodybuilding! It is a book about achieving maximum strength, speed, and endurance.

Unlike bodybuilders, who do not have to perform on the playing field, athletes should never train heavy all year long.

The most a human body can take of any heavy weight program is about 60 minutes. After that, hormone levels start to decline, neural fatigue sets in, and further weight work will not increase muscle power, or even muscle mass, according to Dr. Colgan.

To back up his claims, Colgan typically sites mountains of scientific evidence, as well as his own experience with hundreds of athletes to demonstrate how over-training creates injury and long-term fatigue of the human nervous system.

This large format, fully illustrated training manual can be used to increase the power, endurance, and speed of athletes of all levels, from weekend warriors - to Olympic medalists.

Discover the secrets of true power - on and off the playing field...

• Learn about the Power Posture before you begin training - without it, you're doing it all wrong
• Find out why most stretching exercises don't work - and learn the correct way that greatly increases power
• Build powerful, injury-free shoulders
• Discover the secrets of powerful movement, and why you must train your body from the inside, out
• Adopt the New Power Diet and gain maximum strength through supplementation
• Program your mind to master the 10 components of true athletic power
• Know why conventional bodybuilding training does not produce real power - and what you should do instead
• Learn the secrets of the "Link Cycle", and train your nervous system to convert strength into explosive power on the playing field

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About the Author

Michael Colgan, PhD, CCN, renowned scientist, author and lecturer, was a senior member of the Science Faculty of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. From 1980 to 1982, he was a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller University in New York. His professional memberships include the American College of Sports Medicine, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the British Society of Nutritional Medicine. He is also on the Council of International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists. Dr. Colgan is the author of several best selling books and he has authored more than nine hundred popular articles.

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So many dumb exercises, so many daffy weight machines, so many useless gadgets litter gyms that I visit all over the world, it boils my blood. When I began working with athletes over a quarter century ago, men still swung Indian clubs and stretched steel springs in pretense at resistance training. And women stood in vibrating belts or pressed beefy booties on revolving wooden rollers, vainly believing they would shake or pummel off their fat. Today it's isolation weight machines, with restrictive pads and straps and other gizmos that ensure only a particular muscle gets exercised. Exerting that muscle's new found strength in any free movement of sport virtually guarantees injury to untrained stabilizers and connective tissues. Then there's the stair steppers and suchlike, designed to soothe egos more than take off bodyfat, by moving the ankles about 3 1/2 inches. None of that nonsense insults you here. The Power Program is the latest update of the training system used by the Colgan Institute to increase the power of athletes at all levels, from weekend warriors to Olympic medallists, in the whole alphabet of sport. From archery, basketball and boxing, through skiing, track and field, and tennis, to America's Cup yachting, this program provides a system of weight training that fits with human physiology and the science of strength and speed development. It gives you all you need to rebuild yourself as a body of power. As we move into the new millennium, the value of the correct weight training is finally becoming apparent, not only to athletes but to everyone who wants a powerful, disease-resistant body. Dr Worthy of the American College of Sports Medicine put it best: "Done correctly, weight training is the most efficient, effective, and safest form of exercise there is, and it won't be long before people realize it." In choosing this book you are well on your way....

Edition details

• Publisher: Apple Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1896817262
• ISBN 13: 9781896817262
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 390