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Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team.



The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in

sport-specific demands analysis, work capacity enhancements, movement skills development, long- and short-term training program progressions, and rest and regeneration techniques.

Athletic Development explains what works, what doesn't, and why. Gambetta's no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competitive season and reflect his work at the highest echelons of sport. Merging principles of anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology with sports conditioning applications and four decades of professional practice, this is the definitive guide to performance-enhancing training.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Part I Elements of a Training System(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 A Functional Conditioning Framework(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 Factors Affecting Athletic Movement(p. 21)
• Chapter 3 Sport-Specific Demands Analysis(p. 33)
• Chapter 4 Options and Methods of Testing(p. 45)
• Chapter 5 Strategies for Performance Training(p. 67)
• Chapter 6 Program Planning and Fine-Tuning(p. 81)
• Part II Physical Contributors to Performance(p. 119)
• Chapter 7 Energy and Work Capacity(p. 121)
• Chapter 8 Movement Aptitude and Balance(p. 143)
• Chapter 9 The Critical Body Core(p. 157)
• Chapter 10 Full-Spectrum Strength(p. 177)
• Chapter 11 Integrated Power Training(p. 209)
• Chapter 12 Linear and Multidimensional Speed(p. 229)
• Chapter 13 Multiphase Performance Preparation(p. 253)
• Chapter 14 Recovery and Regeneration(p. 261)
• The Future of Functional Conditioning(p. 277)
• References(p. 283)
• Index(p. 287)
• About the Author(p. 299)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Vern Gambetta is currently the director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He served as the director of athletic development for the New York Mets (2004-2005), speed and conditioning coach for the Tampa Bay Mutiny major league soccer team (1996, 1997, and 1999), conditioning consultant to the U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team and the New England Revolution (1998), and director of conditioning for the Chicago White Sox. Gambetta has also worked with the Canadian men's and women's national basketball teams and the Chicago Bulls. Recognized internationally as an expert in training and conditioning for sport, Gambetta has lectured extensively and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia, and Europe.