Descripción
Description
The ball handler who fakes and then drives past a defender for an easy score. A pass rusher who leaves a would-be blocker in his wake on the way to sacking the quarterback. A setter who manages to maneuver both body and ball in the blink of an eye to make the perfect pass for the kill and match-winning point. These are all reasons agility and quickness are such prized physical attributes in modern sport.
Efforts to become markedly quicker or more agile, however, aren’t always successful. Genetic limitations, technical deficiencies, and inferior training activities are among the major obstacles.
Developing Agility and Quickness helps athletes blow past those barriers thanks to the top sport conditioning authority in the world, the National Strength and Conditioning Association. NSCA hand-picked its top experts to present the best training advice, drills, and programs for optimizing athletes’ linear and lateral movements. Make Developing Agility and Quickness a key part of your conditioning program, and get a step ahead of the competition.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Factors Determining Agility
Chapter 2: Factors Dtermining Quickness
Chapter 3: Testing Agility and Quickness
Chapter 4: Agility Drills
Chapter 5: Quickness Drills
Chapter 6: Agility and Quickness Program Design
Chapter 7: Sport-Specific Agility and Quickness Training
References
Index
About the NSCA
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the NSCA
The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is the world’s leading organization in the field of sport conditioning. Drawing on the resources and expertise of more than 30,000 professionals in strength training and conditioning, sport science, performance research, education, and sports medicine, the NSCA is the world’s most trusted source of knowledge and training guidelines for coaches and athletes. The NSCA provides the crucial link between the lab and the field.
About the Editors
Jay Dawes, PhD, CSCS*D, NSCA-CPT*D, FNSCA, is an assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at Texas A& M University at Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). Before joining the TAMUCC team, Jay was the director of education for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and has worked as a strength and performance coach, personal trainer, educator, and postrehabilitation specialist for over 13 years. Jay is a frequent presenter, both nationally and internationally, on topics related to health, fitness, and human performance. He recently received his PhD from Oklahoma State University in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology with an emphasis in health and human performance. He is certified by the NSCA as a strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and as a personal trainer (NSCA-CPT), by the American College of Sports Medicine as a health fitness specialist (ACSM-HFS), and USA Weightlifting as a club coach. In addition, Jay became a fellow of the NSCA (FNSCA) in 2009.
Mark Roozen, MEd, CSCS*D, NSCA-CPT*D, FNSCA, holds a master’s degree in education from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a certified personal trainer and has been in the strength, conditioning, and performance field for over 28 years. He has worked with teams from high school to the professional ranks as a sport coach and strength and performance coach. He was director of a hospital-owned fitness and training facility and owned his own training center in Texas.
Mark is performance director for Day of Champions, which conducts sport and performance camps acrossthe United States. He has worked with over 30,000 young men and women, including NFL greats such as Emmitt Smith, Neil Smith, Tim Dwight, and Rich Gannon. He has presented, authored, and consulted around the world for various sport and fitness groups and organizations. Mark is senior content manager for STACK Media, which promotes safe training and sport enhancement for high school and collegiate athletes. He is also codirector of The Performance
Education Association (TPEA) and owner and director of Performance Edge Training Systems (PETS).
Editorial Reviews
Reviews
“Developing Agility and Quickness bridges the gap between science and practical training for agility and quickness. It’s an invaluable resource for improved sport performance.”
Lee Brown, EdD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, FACSM — Director of the Center for Sport Performance at California State University, Fullerton; Author of Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness
“Developing Agility and Quickness does a great job of combining research and in-the-trenches knowledge. To help athletes be the best they can, today’s coaches need to have the latest advice on training agility and quickness, which this book provides.”
Eleanor Frankel — Editor in Chief, Training & Conditioning magazine
Product Details:
Title: Developing Agility and Quickness (NSCA Sport Performance)
Publisher: Human Kinetics/October 10, 2011
Language: English
Format: eBook, PDF
Page Count: 200 pages
ISBN: 978-0736083263
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