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Cross-Training for Sports : Programs for 26 Sports
- In Cross-Training for Sports, conditioning experts Gary T. Moran and George H. McGlynn provide 87 strength training, stretching, endurance, agility, and balance exercises to produce total high-level fitness. A handy cross-training grid helps athletes and coaches select exercises and set training levels for each sport. 125 illustrations
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Jumping into Plyometrics
- Detailing plyometric exercises for a variety of sports, this guide explains how plyometrics work and how to incorporate plyometrics into a comprehensive strength and power training program. a highly rated best selling book about a technique that works!
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Plyometrics : Explosive Power Training
- by James C. Radcliffe, Robert C. Farentinos
Explosive Power : Plyometrics for Bodybuilders, Martial Artists & Other Athletes (Hfl Synergistic Training Series)
- by Ed Derse
Theory and Methodology of Training : The Key to Athletic Performance
- by Tudor O. Bompa - a hard to get book ... but worth the wait for the truly dedicated.
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Sports Speed
- In the all-new edition of this comprehensive guide, the authors devote a chapter to each of the seven steps to speed improvement, plus a chapter on nutrition for speed development. The manual includes 92 speed and quickness exercises, sample training programs, and guidelines for creating individual training programs.
- - - are you bred for speed?
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Fitness Cross-Training (Fitness Spectrum)
- Yacenda's words: Features 60 workout sessions geared to meet the needs of people at all fitness levels and that mix running, cycling, swimming, weight training, aerobics, and walking. The author addresses important psychological and social elements of cross-training, providing motivational tips that ensure an enjoyable and winning approach to fitness.
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More Cross-Training : Build a Better Athlete With Dressage
- by Jane Savoie, Anne Kursinski (Introduction)
Dressage With Kyra : The Kyra Kyrklund Training Method
- Kyra Kyrklund, one of the world's most talented dressage riders, explains the unique system of training that has brought her repeated success. In this long-awaited book, Olympian Kyra Kyrklund clearly explains the logical, systematic training methods that have brought her success, showing how they can be applied to all horses--young or old, green or experienced. She begins with the fundamentals of dressage, emphasizing two-way communication between horse and rider. Following a solid foundation in the basics, she then explains how to progress to more advanced training: lateral work, counter canter, flying changes, greater collection, pirouettes, piaffe, and passage. Kyra Kyrklund has trained more than ten horses to Grand Prix and has ridden in five successive Olympic Games. Currently chief trainer at the Swedish National Stud, she makes regular trips to the U.S. to teach. Jytte Lemkow is an international dressage judge, equestrian journalist, and photographer. - r u ready?
Cross-Train Your Horse : Simple Dressage for Every Horse, Every Sport/Book 1
- Introduction by Lynn Palm Pittion-Rossillon Jane Savoie shows how basic dressage techniques can be used to improve every horse's athleticism and performance, no matter what the rider's chosen sport. Many people think that dressage is only for expensive, highly trained horses, but Jane Savoie shows that all horses, no matter what their discipline, can benefit from basic dressage schooling, which emphasizes forwardness, straightness, rhythm, transitions, and elementary lateral work. In Cross-Train Your Horse, she offers easy-to-understand lessons, accompanied by hundreds of photos, drawings, and helpful mental images. There are also interviews with experts who cross-train their champions with basic dressage, excelling in sports as diverse as Western reining, show jumping, and endurance riding. Jane Savoie, author of the best-selling That Winning Feeling!, is a highly-regarded teacher and trainer; she was also a reserve rider for the 1992 bronze-medal U.S. Olympic dressage team. - - - five stars
That Winning Feeling! : Program Your Mind for Peak Performance
- by Jane Savoie
Bodysense : Revolutionize Your Riding With the Alexander Technique
- An accessible guide to improving riding skills at all levels using the Alexander Technique. Featuring 90 photos and drawings. The Alexander Technique, founded over a century ago to enhance the way we breathe and move, is becoming increasingly popular as the importance of the mind-body connection gains acceptance. Now, this innovative guide combines Alexander principles with thorough riding instruction to help riders improve their skills on horseback. Following a short introduction to the Alexander Technique, Sally Tottle clearly and concisely explains posture, muscle tone and sensitivity, breathing, balance, sense of feel, the independent seat, horse and rider communication, and poise in performance. Filled with crisp photos and detailed drawings, BodySense will help both novice and experienced riders to improve their position and, as a result, the performance of their horse. Sally Tottle is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique as well as a riding instructor; she teaches BodySense courses at her home in England.
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101 Longeing and Long Lining Exercises : English & Western
- A wealth of exercise and training patterns are the feature of this comprehensive collection that is specially designed to be used at ringside. Each of the exercises has step-by-step instructions, a diagram, and an explanation of its benefits and, if necessary, cautionary advice.
- - - W O W - - - (if you love it).
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