High-Performance Training for Sports Print CE Course

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Course components can be delivered as printed products or online:

• The text High-Performance Training for Sports
  
• Study guide
  
• Continuing education exam

Combining principles of strength and conditioning with the disciplines of physiotherapy and athletic training, the High-Performance Training for Sports CE Course presents the best athlete conditioning protocols and programs in the world today and covers how to

• optimize the effectiveness of cross-training,
  
• translate strength into speed,
  
• increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power,
  
• maintain peak conditioning throughout the season,
  
• minimize the interference effect, and
  
• design energy-specific performance programs.

Each topic is addressed by world-renowned experts in specific areas of sport conditioning and is augmented by case studies and interviews with coaches of some of the world’s most well-known teams and athletes. These studies enhance the understanding of how the science is interpreted and manipulated to develop some of the world’s best sport performers.

The study guide contains a course syllabus, chapter objectives, and end-of-chapter learning activities to prepare you for the 100-question continuing education exam at the conclusion of the course.

Whether working with high-performance athletes of any age or with those recovering from injury, this course will help develop human performance and athletic capacity.

Skills Active / REPs pre requisites can be found here:
www.HumanKinetics.com/partners/partners/SkillsActive

Audience

A continuing education course for strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, rehabilitation professionals, and fitness coaches.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Understanding Modern Athletes
David Joyce and Daniel Lewindon

Part I Building Robust Athletes

Chapter 1 Evaluating Athletic Capacities
Mike McGuigan, PhD

Chapter 2 Developing Younger Athletes
Rhodri S. Lloyd, PhD, ASCC, CSCS*D, and Jonathan L. Oliver, PhD

Chapter 3 Enhancing Movement Efficiency
Craig Ranson, PhD, and David Joyce

Chapter 4 Stabilising and Strengthening the Core
Andy Barr and Daniel Lewindon

Chapter 5 Optimising Flexibility
Sue Falsone

Chapter 6 Monitoring the Training Response
Aaron J. Coutts, PhD, and Stuart Cormack, PhD

Chapter 7 Retraining the Injured Athlete
Daniel Lewindon and David Joyce

Part II Developing Athletic Capacity

Chapter 8 Customizing the Warm-Up and Cool-Down
Rett Larson

Chapter 9 Fine-Tuning Motor Control
Frans Bosch

Chapter 10 Using Strength Platforms for Explosive Performance
Daniel Baker, PhD

Chapter 11 Successfully Translating Strength Into Speed
Derek M. Hanson, CSCS, BA, MASc

Chapter 12 Optimising Training for Jumping and Landing
Jeremy Sheppard, PhD

Chapter 13 Increasing Agility
Sophia Nimphius, PhD, ASCC, CSCS*D

Chapter 14 Generating Anaerobic Power
David Martin, PhD

Chapter 15 Establishing Endurance for Repeated Performance
Darcy Norman

Chapter 16 Boosting Aerobic Capacity
Grégory Dupont, PhD

Chapter 17 Optimising Effective Cross-Training Methods
Tony Rice, PhD, and Chris Spinks

Part III Delivering Performance

Chapter 18 Planning a Performance Program
Ben Rosenblatt, PhD, ASCC, CSCS*D

Chapter 19 Designing Energy-Specific Programs
Joel Jamieson

Chapter 20 Minimising the Interference Effect
Glenn Stewart

Chapter 21 Optimising Preseason Training in Team Sports
Darren Burgess, PhD

Chapter 22 Peaking for Competition in Individual Sports
G. Gregory Haff, PhD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, AWF-3, ASCC, ASCA-2

Chapter 23 Maintaining an In-Season Conditioning Edge
Stuart Yule

Chapter 24 Recovering Effectively in High-Performance Sports
Christian J. Cook, Liam P. Kilduff and Marc R. Jones

References
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

About the Author

David Joyce is one of the first people in the world to lecture on and hold master’s degrees in both sport science and sports medicine. He has trained, rehabilitated, and maintained multiple world and Olympic champions along with more than 100 national champions and 300 national representatives. The first athletic performance coach in history to work with the Chinese team after having worked with another national Olympic team, Joyce is currently head of athletic performance at Western Force, the most traveled team in world sport in the toughest club rugby competition in the world spanning Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He lives in Western Australia.

Daniel Lewindon has master’s degrees in both sport science and sports medicine. He has more than 12 years of experience working full-time in elite sport and is currently a physiotherapist for the Rugby Football Union working as part of a leading performance team to ensure the health and performance of England’s best rugby players.