The ultimate guide to weight training for hockey

The ultimate guide to weight training for hockey /

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Hockey is the most comprehensive and up-to-date hockey-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide....

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Price, Robert G. (Robert Grant)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : Price World Enterprises, 2005
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports.
Subjects:
Hockey > Training.
Weight training.
Physical fitness.
Muscle strength.
Resistance Training
weight training.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Hockey-specific training. Introduction ; Off-season training ; Preseason training ; In-season training ; Competitive hockey speed/agility/quickness program ; Nutrition guidelines for hockey ; Post workout-recovery: a must for athletes ; Sports drinks and rehydration: what you know?
  • Part II. Getting started. Warming up ; Cooling down ; Abs ; Stretching ; Proper form ; Proper breathing
  • Part III. Recommended exercises. Substituting similar exercises ; Chest exercises ; Back (lats) exercises ; Shoulders exercises ; Triceps exercises ; Biceps/forearms exercises ; Legs exercises
  • Part IV. The necessities. Perfecting your technique ; Estimating your one-rep max ; The different folks, different strokes principle ; Overtraining and staleness ; The declaration of variation ; Muscle fibers ; Training techniques ; When to increase ; Safety reminders ; Record keeping ; Test yourself ; Conclusion
  • Part V. Supplemental 4-week programs ; Endurance/stamina/fat-burning programs ; General fitness/power programs ; Strength programs.

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