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High-Performance Training for Sports 2nd Edition Online CE Exam With Ebook

$124.95 CAD

Online Exam With Ebook
$124.95 CAD

ISBN: 9781718226432

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This package includes the following:
  • High-Performance Training for Sports, Second Edition, ebook
  • Online continuing education exam
High-Performance Training for Sports, Second Edition, presents the most effective philosophies, protocols, and programs for developing today’s athletes. Featuring contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching, and rehabilitation, this all-star team shares the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians, elite athletes, and teams from professional sport leagues around the world. In addition to helping you develop your athletes’ speed, agility, jumping and landing capabilities, and anaerobic and aerobic conditioning, the text provides information on programming for the in-season and off-season, learning and cueing, and having a positive impact on a training environment.

Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will help you accomplish three critical goals for your athletes:
  • Establish and develop resilience
  • Cultivate athletic capabilities
  • Enhance and sustain performance
Whether you are seeking to maximize the readiness of high-performance athletes for a season or are assisting athletes who are returning to play after injury, this definitive guide provides the best advice and practices. High-Performance Training for Sports is an essential resource for those who wish to excel as a strength and conditioning coach, athletic trainer, rehabilitator, or athlete.

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
  • Assess the physical capacity and readiness of an athlete for training and sports.
  • Explain the youth physical development model.
  • Articulate methods of developing strength and power, speed, and endurance in young athletes.
  • Define mental health and summarize principles and strategies to promote positive mental health.
  • Illustrate efficiency of movement to maximize performance.
  • Explain the trunk training continuum.
  • Assess the flexibility and mobility of an athlete.
  • Create appropriate intervention strategies for improved flexibility and mobility.
  • Explain approaches to monitoring training load.
  • Identify strategies that have a positive impact on coaching and leadership.
  • Explain core principles of strength training for sport performance.
  • Define complex training.
  • Evaluate sprint technique and performance in novice to elite athletes.
  • Describe proper training methods for jumping and landing.
  • Explain agility and principles for coaching change-of-direction ability.
  • Measure anaerobic power for sports.
  • Employ proper training and supplementation methods for anaerobic power training.
  • Employ proper training methods for aerobic power training.
  • Describe the language of cueing and the communication loop.
  • Summarize the science of predictive coding.
  • Explain the general adaptation syndrome theory and the use of training units.
  • Employ proper preseason, in-season, and off-season training for a sport.
  • Describe the fitness–fatigue paradigm.
  • Discuss the importance of tapering in the physical preparation of athletes.
  • Examine the impact of various recovery modalities, including yoga, sleep, and hydrotherapy.
  • Foster a learning environment that contributes to high performance in sports.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning coaches, sport performance training coaches, sport physical therapists and physiotherapists, and athletic trainers.
Foreword by Dan Pfaff

Introduction: Understanding Modern Athletes
David Joyce and Daniel Lewindon

Part I. Establishing and Developing Resilience

Chapter 1. Understanding Athletes’ Capacity and Readiness
Michael R. McGuigan, PhD, CSCS*D, and Jo Clubb, BSc, MSc

Chapter 2. Working With Younger Athletes
Rhodri S. Lloyd, PhD, Jon L. Oliver, PhD, and Sean P. Cumming, PhD

Chapter 3. Promoting Mental Health
Samuel Cumming, MSc, Susan Wood, PhD, and James Bell, MSc, PhD

Chapter 4. Optimising Movement Efficiency
Matt Jordan, PhD, CSCS

Chapter 5. Developing Trunk Strength and Coordination
Loren Landow, CSCS*D

Chapter 6. Gaining Flexibility for Strength and Performance
Vernon C. Griffith II, CSCS*D, TSAC-F*D

Chapter 7. Fuelling for Training and Performance
Dan Ellis, SENr, and Graeme L. Close, PhD

Chapter 8. Monitoring Fitness and Performance
Stuart Cormack, PhD, and Aaron J. Coutts, PhD

Part II. Developing Athletic Capabilities

Chapter 9. Understanding and Influencing Interpersonal Dynamics in the Training Environment
Brett Bartholomew, MS Ed, CSCS*D, RSCC*D

Chapter 10. Strength Training
Eamonn P. Flanagan, PhD

Chapter 11. Speed Training
Jean-Benoit Morin, PhD, and Stuart McMillan

Chapter 12. Jumping and Landing Training
Jeremy M. Sheppard, PhD, and Dana Agar-Newman, MSc

Chapter 13. Agility Training
Sophia Nimphius, PhD

Chapter 14. Anaerobic Power Training
David T. Martin, PhD

Chapter 15. Aerobic Power Training
Martin Buchheit, PhD, and Paul Laursen, PhD

Chapter 16. Cueing for Training and Performance
Nick Winkelman, PhD

Chapter 17. Translating Athletic Qualities Into Sport Performance
Duncan N. French, PhD

Chapter 18. Managing Mental and Physical Stressors
John Kiely, PhD

Part III. Enhancing and Sustaining Performance

Chapter 19. Programme Design
Benjamin Rosenblatt, PhD, ASCC

Chapter 20. Preseason
Darren Burgess, PhD

Chapter 21. In-Season
Darcy Norman, PT, ATC, CSCS

Chapter 22. Off-Season
Teena Murray, MS, and Derek M. Hansen, MSc

Chapter 23. Warm-Up and Cool-Down
Rett Larson, MS

Chapter 24. Peaking
G. Gregory Haff, PhD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, AWF-3, ASCC, ASCA-2

Chapter 25. Recovery
Shona L. Halson, PhD, and Lorena Torres-Ronda, PhD

Chapter 26. Learning
Sam Robertson, PhD, and Jacqueline Tran, PhD

Chapter 27. Retraining the Injured Athlete
Daniel Lewindon, MSc (SEM), MSc (S&C), and David Joyce, MPhty, MSc, MBA
David Joyce has trained, rehabilitated and maintained multiple world champions, including Olympians, and more than 100 national champions. The first athletic performance coach in history to work with Team China after having worked with another national Olympic team, Joyce is the high performance and leadership specialist with The Performance Union, where he provides high performance and leadership consultancy services to elite organizations worldwide.

Daniel Lewindon is the head of performance science and medicine for the LTA, the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain. He is responsible for the leadership, management, and integration of sport science and medicine in support of elite players, coaches, and performance programs. Prior to his work with tennis athletes, Lewindon worked in professional rugby for 13 years, 7 of which he served as the senior team physiotherapist for England, where he was responsible for player recovery, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. He holds master's degrees in both sport science and sports medicine.

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High-Performance Training for Sports 2nd Edition Online CE Exam With Ebook
Human Kinetics Canada

High-Performance Training for Sports 2nd Edition Online CE Exam With Ebook

$124.95 CAD
This package includes the following:
  • High-Performance Training for Sports, Second Edition, ebook
  • Online continuing education exam
High-Performance Training for Sports, Second Edition, presents the most effective philosophies, protocols, and programs for developing today’s athletes. Featuring contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching, and rehabilitation, this all-star team shares the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians, elite athletes, and teams from professional sport leagues around the world. In addition to helping you develop your athletes’ speed, agility, jumping and landing capabilities, and anaerobic and aerobic conditioning, the text provides information on programming for the in-season and off-season, learning and cueing, and having a positive impact on a training environment.

Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will help you accomplish three critical goals for your athletes:
  • Establish and develop resilience
  • Cultivate athletic capabilities
  • Enhance and sustain performance
Whether you are seeking to maximize the readiness of high-performance athletes for a season or are assisting athletes who are returning to play after injury, this definitive guide provides the best advice and practices. High-Performance Training for Sports is an essential resource for those who wish to excel as a strength and conditioning coach, athletic trainer, rehabilitator, or athlete.

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
  • Assess the physical capacity and readiness of an athlete for training and sports.
  • Explain the youth physical development model.
  • Articulate methods of developing strength and power, speed, and endurance in young athletes.
  • Define mental health and summarize principles and strategies to promote positive mental health.
  • Illustrate efficiency of movement to maximize performance.
  • Explain the trunk training continuum.
  • Assess the flexibility and mobility of an athlete.
  • Create appropriate intervention strategies for improved flexibility and mobility.
  • Explain approaches to monitoring training load.
  • Identify strategies that have a positive impact on coaching and leadership.
  • Explain core principles of strength training for sport performance.
  • Define complex training.
  • Evaluate sprint technique and performance in novice to elite athletes.
  • Describe proper training methods for jumping and landing.
  • Explain agility and principles for coaching change-of-direction ability.
  • Measure anaerobic power for sports.
  • Employ proper training and supplementation methods for anaerobic power training.
  • Employ proper training methods for aerobic power training.
  • Describe the language of cueing and the communication loop.
  • Summarize the science of predictive coding.
  • Explain the general adaptation syndrome theory and the use of training units.
  • Employ proper preseason, in-season, and off-season training for a sport.
  • Describe the fitness–fatigue paradigm.
  • Discuss the importance of tapering in the physical preparation of athletes.
  • Examine the impact of various recovery modalities, including yoga, sleep, and hydrotherapy.
  • Foster a learning environment that contributes to high performance in sports.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning coaches, sport performance training coaches, sport physical therapists and physiotherapists, and athletic trainers.
Foreword by Dan Pfaff

Introduction: Understanding Modern Athletes
David Joyce and Daniel Lewindon

Part I. Establishing and Developing Resilience

Chapter 1. Understanding Athletes’ Capacity and Readiness
Michael R. McGuigan, PhD, CSCS*D, and Jo Clubb, BSc, MSc

Chapter 2. Working With Younger Athletes
Rhodri S. Lloyd, PhD, Jon L. Oliver, PhD, and Sean P. Cumming, PhD

Chapter 3. Promoting Mental Health
Samuel Cumming, MSc, Susan Wood, PhD, and James Bell, MSc, PhD

Chapter 4. Optimising Movement Efficiency
Matt Jordan, PhD, CSCS

Chapter 5. Developing Trunk Strength and Coordination
Loren Landow, CSCS*D

Chapter 6. Gaining Flexibility for Strength and Performance
Vernon C. Griffith II, CSCS*D, TSAC-F*D

Chapter 7. Fuelling for Training and Performance
Dan Ellis, SENr, and Graeme L. Close, PhD

Chapter 8. Monitoring Fitness and Performance
Stuart Cormack, PhD, and Aaron J. Coutts, PhD

Part II. Developing Athletic Capabilities

Chapter 9. Understanding and Influencing Interpersonal Dynamics in the Training Environment
Brett Bartholomew, MS Ed, CSCS*D, RSCC*D

Chapter 10. Strength Training
Eamonn P. Flanagan, PhD

Chapter 11. Speed Training
Jean-Benoit Morin, PhD, and Stuart McMillan

Chapter 12. Jumping and Landing Training
Jeremy M. Sheppard, PhD, and Dana Agar-Newman, MSc

Chapter 13. Agility Training
Sophia Nimphius, PhD

Chapter 14. Anaerobic Power Training
David T. Martin, PhD

Chapter 15. Aerobic Power Training
Martin Buchheit, PhD, and Paul Laursen, PhD

Chapter 16. Cueing for Training and Performance
Nick Winkelman, PhD

Chapter 17. Translating Athletic Qualities Into Sport Performance
Duncan N. French, PhD

Chapter 18. Managing Mental and Physical Stressors
John Kiely, PhD

Part III. Enhancing and Sustaining Performance

Chapter 19. Programme Design
Benjamin Rosenblatt, PhD, ASCC

Chapter 20. Preseason
Darren Burgess, PhD

Chapter 21. In-Season
Darcy Norman, PT, ATC, CSCS

Chapter 22. Off-Season
Teena Murray, MS, and Derek M. Hansen, MSc

Chapter 23. Warm-Up and Cool-Down
Rett Larson, MS

Chapter 24. Peaking
G. Gregory Haff, PhD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, AWF-3, ASCC, ASCA-2

Chapter 25. Recovery
Shona L. Halson, PhD, and Lorena Torres-Ronda, PhD

Chapter 26. Learning
Sam Robertson, PhD, and Jacqueline Tran, PhD

Chapter 27. Retraining the Injured Athlete
Daniel Lewindon, MSc (SEM), MSc (S&C), and David Joyce, MPhty, MSc, MBA
David Joyce has trained, rehabilitated and maintained multiple world champions, including Olympians, and more than 100 national champions. The first athletic performance coach in history to work with Team China after having worked with another national Olympic team, Joyce is the high performance and leadership specialist with The Performance Union, where he provides high performance and leadership consultancy services to elite organizations worldwide.

Daniel Lewindon is the head of performance science and medicine for the LTA, the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain. He is responsible for the leadership, management, and integration of sport science and medicine in support of elite players, coaches, and performance programs. Prior to his work with tennis athletes, Lewindon worked in professional rugby for 13 years, 7 of which he served as the senior team physiotherapist for England, where he was responsible for player recovery, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. He holds master's degrees in both sport science and sports medicine.

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