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This book is designed for strength training coaches, serious athletes who design their own resistance training programmes, and all scientists interested in learning how strength is developed. Debunking old weight training myths along the way, the authors translate research and theory into practical training guidelines.

Increasingly popular as a self-defence method and fitness program, Krav Maga is the Israeli military's renowned method for fending off attackers. Based on the principles of doing minimal harm and enhancing our natural instincts for self-protection, anyone can master its moves - regardless of strength, size, age or gender. In this excellent beginner's guide David Khan presents the basic techniques and principles. Topics include: Anticipating an attack; Understanding the bodies vulnerable targets;...

This work combines two of the most effective ways to train for fitness and sports performance: Swiss balls and medicine balls. Both methods of training can replicate specific sports movements, or create a platform ideally suited to train stabilizing muscles to improve agility and mobility. It shows athletes and fitness enthusiasts how to use Swiss ball and medicine ball exercises to develop greater strength and stability for muscle definition and sports performance. It presents strength exercise...

In his new book TRUTH Body Solutions, Frank Sepe provides easy, nutritionally sound, common-sense eating strategies that not only are easy to follow, but will help you lose the excess weight forever without pills or gimmicks. Frank doesn't believe in the latest fad diet, but would rather provide you with the nutritional information his clients pay thousands of dollars to learn. There are also separate chapters for those of you who need to actually gain a few pounds in a safe way. Frank also foc...

By the time many men get to 40, they are starting to lose their battle with the bulge, they work incredibly long and stressful hours at work, are away from their families, and their sex life might well have taken a severe downward turn. How to Fix Your Life - Now! is the proverbial kick in the behind for all of those slightly overweight and unfit men who feel their lives are stuck in a rut. Duncan Goodhew, Olympic Gold Medallist and motivational speaker, knows all about facing challenges and in...

A perfect companion to any triathlon training program, The Triathlete's Training Diary offers an ideal way for you to plan, record, and better understand your workouts and performance. With undated pages for use any time of the year, this diary offers plenty of space for all the objective and subjective performance metrics you might want to track in a smart format that's been carefully designed, tested, and refined by Joe Friel, the top coach in the sport of triathlon. The Triathlete's Training...