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Training and Nutrition Advice from the World's Experts in Baseball
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-59120-180-9 (ISBN)
Description
Baseball is one of the few truly global sports. This book is about how to get your body in better shape to play the best baseball of your life. Eating right, taking the right supplements and engaging in a proper training regimen all contribute to our overall baseball performance.
The game of baseball is played with the entire body. No swing or throw comes from one muscle - the whole body is generating movement and in turn creates power or speed. So, the entire body has to be effectively strengthened in order for you to be the best player possible. Balance in a weight-training program is critical to performance and injury prevention.
The comprehensive training programme in this book includes the following:
? Interval training for proper conditioning
? Drills for increasing "baseball speed"
? Training schedules for off-season, pre-season, and during season
? Baseball-specific weight training
The book provides healthy eating tips, in general and also for game days. Sports supplements to enhance baseball performance are discussed; with an emphasis on safety and restorative measures (whirlpools, massages, rehabilitation) may be added to help the athlete reach the highest level of achievement. There's also advice on how athletes can safely gain or lose weight.
The game of baseball is played with the entire body. No swing or throw comes from one muscle - the whole body is generating movement and in turn creates power or speed. So, the entire body has to be effectively strengthened in order for you to be the best player possible. Balance in a weight-training program is critical to performance and injury prevention.
The comprehensive training programme in this book includes the following:
? Interval training for proper conditioning
? Drills for increasing "baseball speed"
? Training schedules for off-season, pre-season, and during season
? Baseball-specific weight training
The book provides healthy eating tips, in general and also for game days. Sports supplements to enhance baseball performance are discussed; with an emphasis on safety and restorative measures (whirlpools, massages, rehabilitation) may be added to help the athlete reach the highest level of achievement. There's also advice on how athletes can safely gain or lose weight.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59120-180-9 (9781591201809)
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Additional editions
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Training and Nutrition Advice from the World's Experts in Baseball
E-Book
04/2008
Basic Health Publications, Inc.
€14.49
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Persons
Bob Alejo is considered one of the world's leading experts on strength and conditioning for baseball. As strength and conditioning director at U.C. Santa Barbara since 2005, Bob brings nearly twenty-five years of unmatched experience training athletes. Bob was also the conditioning coach for the Oakland Athletics baseball team from 1993 to 2001, and from 1984 to 1993 trained and supervised men's and women's teams at the University of California, at Los Angeles. He is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, American College of Sports Medicine, International Society of Sports Nutrition, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist as well as a Level-I Weightlifting Federation coach.
Chief Executive Officer of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and one of its cofounders. He earned his Ph.D. in the area of skeletal muscle plasticity and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in endocriniology and metabolism.
Chief Executive Officer of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and one of its cofounders. He earned his Ph.D. in the area of skeletal muscle plasticity and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in endocriniology and metabolism.