Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Performance (Falcon Guide: How to Climb Series) - Softcover

Horst, Eric J.

 
9780762746927: Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Performance (Falcon Guide: How to Climb Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0762746920 ISBN 13: 9780762746927
Verlag: Globe Pequot Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

TRAINING FOR CLIMBING: -The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Performance, 2nd edition                                                                   

Eric J. Hörst

          Updated, expanded, and redesigned, the second edition of Training for Climbing builds on the best-selling first edition of this breakthrough text. Eric J. Hörst continues his tradition of melding leading-edge sport science and his thirty-plus years of climbing and coaching experience to create a unique and compelling book packed with practical how-to and what-to-do information.

 

This new edition includes expanded chapters on training technique, improving mental skills, and developing muscular strength and endurance. A new chapter on general conditioning leads into the seminal chapters on climbing-specific strength training and developing personalized training programs for maximal results. Dozens of stunning color photos depict the exercises and techniques, while the addition of many training-tip summary boxes makes for a quick review of key points.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eric Horst has been climbing for thirty years. He is a performance coach who has helped thousands of climbers improve their performance through his books, magazine articles, seminars, and Web sites. He is the author of Rock Climbing Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland; Training for Climbing 1st ed; How to Climb 5.12; Learning to Climb Indoors; and Conditioning for Climbers. 

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Drawing on new research in sports medicine, nutrition, and fitness, Training for Climbing helps climbers achieve superior performance and better mental concentration on the rock, with less risk of injury. Updated and expanded, this new edition builds on the best-selling first edition's breakthrough text. Eric Hörst combines leading-edge sport science with his thirty-plus years of climbing and coaching experience to create a handbook packed with practical how-to and what-to-do information.

This new edition includes expanded chapters on training technique, improving mental skills, and developing muscular strength and endurance. A new chapter on general conditioning leads into the seminal chapters on climbing-specific strength training and developing personalized training programs for maximum results. Additional chapters discuss the vital, yet often overlooked, subjects of self-assessment, performance nutrition, accelerating recovery, and injury prevention topics that have received scant or no coverage in other climbing books. Dozens of color photographs depict the exercises and techniques, while training-tip summary boxes makes for a quick review of key points.

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Verlag
Globe Pequot Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0762746920
ISBN 13 
9780762746927
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
282
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