Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All Sports

"Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All Sports" tells how to develop explosive power, special endurance for explosive movements, speed, coordination, and flexibility. It shows ready-made progressions of exercises for an amazing variety of major sports, including all track-and-field events, ball games, and martial arts, and many more. Readers will learn what are the right training loads and how to prevent injuries to ankles, knees, and arms.

Tadeusz Starzynski is an outstanding coach, and a world authority on training for jumps. Athletes coached by him have won two Olympic gold medals, two gold medals at European Championships, and several times won national championships and set national records. A member of the World and European Federation of Track and Field Coaches, he is the author of more than 150 publications published in 30 countries.

Henryk Sozanski, Ph.D., a track-and field coach, is now a professor and a president of AWF (University School of Physical Education) in Warsaw, Poland. He specializes in problems of training--including the role of jumping ability in athletes' fitness preparation. He has directed research on training loads and their optimization and is the author of more than 300 works concerning the theory of sports training.