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Athletic Body in Balance Book/DVD Package Book
Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. Traditional conditioning builds a fitness base, but modern sports training takes into account athletic movement patterns. The Athletic Body in Balance book and DVD first of its kind to show you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries.Physical therapist and sports conditioning expert Gray Cook has proven the effectiveness of his approach through the performances of athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, and Reebok® University's sports training system. Whereas other books concentrate on maximizing your strengths, the Athletic Body in Balance book focuses on exposing and overcoming your weaknesses to form a foundation for long-term training gains. Cook will help you identify functional weaknesses; correct imbalances; explore your potential; and refine sport-specific movement skills such as jumping, kicking, cutting, and turning. You will see where conditioning is breaking down and how to get your body back on track.The Athletic Body in Balance DVD then covers five assessment tests to help you find the imbalances in movement patterns, sample corrective exercises to improve mobility and stability, and ways to integrate these exercises into a regular training program. The tests include-deep squatâ??assessing the mobility and stability of the hips, knees, and ankles-hurdle stepsâ??evaluating bilateral mobility and stability of the hips, knees, and ankles-in-line lungeâ??determining hip mobility and stability, quadriceps flexibility, and ankle and knee stability on both sides of the body-straight leg raiseâ??gauging hamstring flexibility-seated rotationâ??measuring uppertrunk stability during a combined upper- and lower-body movementMove more efficiently and achieve real gains in performance with the Athletic Body in Balance book and DVD.Human Kinetics DVDs are coded for universal playback and can be played in all regions of the world. Read More
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- 0736064125
- 9780736064125
- Gray Cook
- 24 October 2005
- Human Kinetics
- Paperback (Book)
- 232
- 1 Pap/DVD
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Athletic Body in Balance£16.99
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