Periodization of Strength Training for Sports 4th Edition Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Periodization of Strength Training for Sports, Fourth Edition, book
• Online continuing education exam

Tudor Bompa revolutionized Western training methods when he introduced his groundbreaking theory of periodization in Romania in 1963. He has since gone on to become a world-renowned exercise scientist and the foremost authority on periodization and the development of biomotor abilities. In Periodization of Strength Training for Sports, Fourth Edition, Bompa partners with international strength and conditioning expert Carlo Buzzichelli to go beyond the simple application of bodybuilding or powerlifting programs to show you what training to schedule—and when—to build athletic strength and maximize performance at the right time for your athletes.

Periodization of Strength Training for Sports demonstrates how to use periodized workouts to peak at optimal times by manipulating strength training variables through six training phases—anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to specific strength, maintenance, and peaking. You’ll find proven programs for 30 sports that take into consideration the specific phases and unique demands of each sport, along with information about the dominant energy system, limiting factors for performance, and objectives for strength training. No more guessing about preseason conditioning, in-season workloads, or rest and recovery periods—now it’s simply a matter of implementing the strategies in this book.

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

Learning Objectives

• Identify the different energy systems, biomotor abilities, and types of strength that are required in each sport or event.
• Explain the laws and principles of strength training for sports and the foundations of physiology from which they are derived.
• Describe the importance of specificity when developing a periodized strength training plan.
• Design annual plans for various sports and athletes at all levels.
• Select periodization schemes appropriate to a given sport, athlete, and desired performance outcome.
• Organize training sessions within the weekly training plan.
• Prescribe strength training methods and exercises most suited for each phase of the annual plan.
• Manipulate strength training variables to obtain the desired training effect for each phase and session.
• Apply the principles of periodization to the development of a long-term plan for young athletes.
• Integrate power, agility, speed, and endurance training with strength training for maximum sport performance.
• Convert strength training adaptations to the specific biomotor abilities required in each sport.
• Plan a sport-specific strength maintenance program to maintain strength training adaptations during the competitive season for maximum sport performance.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning coaches, personal trainers, and athletic trainers who work with athletes of all levels.

Part I. Foundations of Strength Training
Chapter 1. Strength, Power, and Muscular Endurance in Sports
Chapter 2. Neuromuscular Response to Strength Training
Chapter 3. Laws and Principles of Strength Training for Sports

Part II. Planning, Periodization, and Program Design
Chapter 4. Manipulation of Training Variables
Chapter 5. The Microcycle Short-Term Plan
Chapter 6. The Annual Plan
Chapter 7. Long-Term Planning for Team Sports

Part III. Periodization of Strength
Chapter 8. Anatomical Adaptation
Chapter 9. Hypertrophy Training
Chapter 10. Maximum Strength
Chapter 11. Conversion to Specific Strength
Chapter 12. Maintenance, Cessation, and Compensation
Chapter 13. Peaking for Maximum Performance

Tudor O. Bompa, PhD, revolutionized Western training methods when he introduced his groundbreaking theory of periodization in his native Romania in 1963. He has personally trained 11 Olympic medalists (including 4 gold medalists) and has served as a consultant to coaches and athletes worldwide.

Bompa’s books on training methods, including Theory and Methodology of Training: The Key to Athletic Performance and Periodization, have been translated into 19 languages and used in more than 180 countries for training athletes and for educating and certifying coaches. Bompa has been invited to speak about training in 46 countries and has been awarded certificates of honor and appreciation from such prestigious organizations as the Ministry of Culture of Argentina, the Australian Sports Council, the Spanish Olympic Committee, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (2014 Alvin Roy Award for Career Achievement), and the International Olympic Committee.

A member of the Canadian Olympic Association and the Romanian National Council of Sports, Bompa is a professor emeritus of York University, where he began teaching training theories in 1987. In 2017, Bompa was awarded the honorary title of doctor honoris causa in his home country of Romania.

Carlo A. Buzzichelli is a PhD candidate at the Superior Institute of Physical Culture and Sports of Havana (Cuba). He is a professional strength and conditioning coach; the director of the International Strength and Conditioning Institute; a consultant for Olympic track and field athletes in Cuba, Italy, and the Philippines; an adjunct professor of theory and methodology of training at the University of Milan (Italy); and a member of the President’s Advisory Council of the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA). Buzzichelli has held seminars and lectures at various universities and sport institutes worldwide and was an invited lecturer at the 2012 International Workshop on Strength and Conditioning in Trivandrum (India), the 2015 Performance Training Summit in Beijing (China), the 2016 International Workshop on Strength and Conditioning in Bucharest (Romania), the 2017 Track and Field National Team Coaches Forum in Havana (Cuba), the 2018 Philippines Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference in Manila (Philippines), the 2018 International Conference on Football Science in Florence (Italy), the 2018 International Conference on Combat Sports Strength and Conditioning in Warsaw (Poland), and the 2019 International Workshop on Strength and Conditioning in Gwalior (India).

Buzzichelli’s coaching experience includes the 2002 Commonwealth Games; the 2003, 2017, and 2019 World Track and Field Championships; and the 2016 Summer Olympics. As a strength and conditioning coach for team sports, his three senior teams in two different sports (volleyball and soccer) have achieved a total of five promotions in five seasons. As a coach of individual sports, Buzzichelli’s athletes have won more than 50 medals at national championships in four sports (track and field, swimming, Brazilian jiujitsu, and powerlifting), set 10 national records in powerlifting and track and field, and won 15 medals at international competitions. In 2015, Buzzichelli coached two Italian champions in two different sports; in 2016, two of his athletes earned international titles in two different combat sports.