Science of Sports Training: How to Plan and Control Training for Peak Performance

Thomas Kurz

ISBN 10: 094014901X / ISBN 13: 9780940149014

Published by Stadion Pub, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science of Sports Training: How to Plan and Control Training for Peak Performance
• Publisher: Stadion Pub
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 094014901X
• ISBN 13: 9780940149014
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The purpose of athletic training is to achieve the highest possible sports result (for a given individual). Training is efficient if this result is achieved with a minimal expenditure of time and energy. In accordance with the above statements, Science of Sports Training tells the reader how to achieve maximal results with minimum of effort.

The book describes optimal sequence of types of efforts (exercises) in a workout, in a weekly cycle of workouts and in longer periods, and explains physiological basis for these arrangements. It covers all effective methods of developing any physical ability, skill or mental ability and it tells how and when to change the training loads, how to make training plans for any period of time (single workout, week, month, year, several years).

You will learn when, during a day and during a workout, is the best time for technical, speed, strength, endurance, or flexibility exercises; when during a week should you do a given type of a workout; when and how much should you work on any ability or skill during an annual training plan.

The examples illustrating the principles of training and the methods of controlling it, were taken from sports (track and field, swimming, boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, and ball games) that most people are familiar with. Further, these examples were presented in such a way as to make it easy to apply the conclusions to any other sport. For example, the indicators of a boxer's good or bad form described in this book apply equally to taekwondo fighters, or kickboxers.

The methods of controlling the training process that are described in this book do not require complicated equipment and bunches of technicians to make this information applicable in training.

About the Author

Thomas Kurz is the author of Flexibility Express, Stretching Scientifically, Secrets of Stretching, and Science of Sports Training and co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense. He also translated from Polish to English book by Tadeusz Starzynski and Henryk Sozanski, Ph.D., titled Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All Sports: Atlas of Exercises. Currently he translates from Russian to English books by V. I. Usakov, Ph.D., on teaching children to swim and to skate.

Before coming to the U.S.A., Thomas Kurz studied physical education at AWF (University School of Physical Education) in Warsaw, one of the top East European institutions that prepare coaches, instructors, teachersof physical education, and rehabilitation specialists.

While still a student, he was appointed assistant coach of the students' judo team. As a part of studies' requirements, Kurz competed in several sports,including swimming, gymnastics, and track and field events. This gave him athletic versatility which shows itself now in his expertise in the field of sports methodology and physical education, an expertise evident in his work with his students, as well as in his books and videos.