52-Week Basketball Training: A Proven Plan for Strength, Power, Speed, Agility and Performance (52-Week Sports Training Series) - Softcover

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Chip Sigmon is the athletic trainer for The Epicenter for Sports Performance Facility, a division of OrthoCarolina Medical Group. He was the strength and conditioning coach for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting, and he served the Charlotte Hornets as their strength and conditioning coach from 1994 to 2001 prior to their departure to New Orleans.

Sigmon has worked with such notable athletes as Alonzo Mourning, Baron Davis, Hersey Hawkins, and Dawn Staley. As an assistant strength coach at the University of North Carolina (1982 to 1983), he worked with Tar Heel and NBA greats Michael Jordan and James Worthy. He was the head strength coach at Appalachian State University from 1984 to 1989.

A graduate of Appalachian State University, Sigmon is a former competitive body builder and an NSCA-certified personal trainer and fitness consultant. He has written articles for a national basketball newsletter and for the NSCA, and he was a contributing author to NBA Power Conditioning. Sigmon is also a sought-after motivational speaker and is on the State Speakers list for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

When not busy training athletes, speaking at conventions, or writing, Sigmon enjoys working in the yard, reading, and spending time with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters at their home in Charlotte, North Carolina.