The Art of Sprinting: Techniques for Speed and Performance

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Speed, and how it can be increased, is of prime importance in all sport and, in its purest athletic form, speed is synonymous with sprinting. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Designed for athletes with more of a background of training than Training Kids for Speed, Developing Speed expands upon the content of the first e-book. Michael Yessis, a renowned fitness expert, explains in this breakthrough book how strength and kinesiology play an important part in improving time and distance. The key to fun and effectiveness is a coach delivering a variety of effective training activities within certain guidelines.This book is a unique and comprehensive look at running fast, from biomechanical analysis, motor development, jump, and plyometric training, resistance training, planning and progression of sprint training, and how to match your approach to the various types of athletes you’ll encounter as a coach. This series will help you breakdown the way you coach certain events, and it will help you understand how to utilize workouts to help you reach your full potential. The item was shipped fast and was nicely packaged in a very thick paper mailing envelope and arrived as scheduled in perfect used condition. Book Sprints facilitates your experts to aggregate knowledge, turn it into clear information and publish it fast. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Joel Smith offers engaging writing and mixes his own experience with the current scientific knowledge on the topic of speed. At the end of the week you receive an edited, illustrated and uniquely-designed PDF or EPUB to print or distribute online. Sprinting - Training, Techniques and Improving Performance is an essential guide for all athletes at the beginning or development stages of their sprint careers who are committed to running faster. Although annoyed, I must say this seller is very professional and refunded my purchase promptly, in a most courteous manner--somewhat remarkably for such a small dollar amount. Biography: Chris Husbands is a qualified UKA Athletics coach and masters athlete with Belgrave Harriers and runs his own personal training business.com“Just wanted to give you a report on some great results I’ve gotten with several clients using your book.

I highly recommend Speed strength for all coaches, whether you regard yourself in the outdated S + C coach title, a technical coach, or a tactical coach. I would highly recommend using Book Sprint to develop your book because they will exceed your expectations.

The lessons I’ve gained as an athlete, coach and now podcaster and educator have all filtered into a product that I believe creates a platform for true, holistic thinking when sitting to build a speed program. The book covers all sprint events from 60 metres to 400 metres, as well as the hurdles and relay; principles of biomechanics, limiting factors and potential areas of capability; training and planning; prehab and avoiding injuries; practical nutritional advice and strength and conditioning. Adrian Faccioni (University of Canberra), Vern Gambetta (Gambetta Training Systems), Mike Hurst (Coach of Darren Clark, Maree Holland, Debbie Wells), Ron Wyld (Dalton Grant), Michael Khmel (Matt Shirvington, Patrick Dwyer), Cliff Mallett (Paul Di Bella, Damien Marsh, Sharon Cripps), Esa Peltola (Patrick Johnson), Peter Fortune (Cathy Freeman, Tamsyn Lewis, Lauren Hewitt),Tudor Bidder (Renee Poetschka, Declan Stack, Susan Andrews), Roy Boyd (Kyle Van der Kuyp), Jackie Byrnes (Melinda Gainsford, Jana Pittman), Phil Geddes (David Geddes), Lindsay Watson (Zid Abou Hamed, Todd MacDonald), Colin Wright (Tim Jackson, Jenny Laurendet), Paul Laurendet (Holt Hardy, Marty Byron, Amber Menzies, Clinton Hill), Matt Barber (Dean Capobianco), Andrew Jackson (Rachel Massey-Jackson), Loren Seagrave (Speed Dynamics, Evelyn Ashford, Donovan Bailey), and Dan Pfaff (Bruny Surin, Obadele Thompson, Donovan Bailey). Sprinting - Training, Techniques and Improving Performance" is an essential guide for all athletes at the beginning or development stages of their sprint careers who are committed to running faster. I would have expected more hands-on advice on workouts and drills for developing the different aspects of sprinting.

The section also contains guidelines for designing appropriate sessions to be more effective at improving technique and performance both long term and short term. After seeing enough athletes get stronger, but not faster on the track, and also see athletes continually abandon my cueing set when actually competing and needing to run fast, I really started to ask myself some tough questions regarding athletic development.

All these questions are ones that I’ve set out to find the answer, an answer that starts with how the body works in acceleration and sprinting. Once you’ve seen what’s possible in five days, it might be difficult to tackle a writing project in any other way again. Reading Joel’s book has forced me to realise that these idiosyncrasies might be the very thing that makes them so fast in the first place. From coordinating logistics to facilitating the conversations during development to after-project completion, every step of the way was exceptionally well run and comprehensive. This book was written by Coach Charlie Francis in 2008 to highlight the key concepts of sprint techniques and the dynamics which take place during a race.