High-Powered Plyometrics - Softcover

Radcliffe, James

 
9781718227989: High-Powered Plyometrics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1718227981 ISBN 13: 9781718227989
Verlag: Human Kinetics, 2025

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Develop explosive power for an edge over the competition. 

In this third edition, James Radcliffe-head strength and conditioning coach at University of Oregon-applies over 50 years of research and experience to create a hands-on guide that explores the principles of high-intensity plyometric training, power assessments, and the development of long- and short-term conditioning programs. You’ll find detailed photo sequences, step-by-step instructions and coaching cues, and intensity guidelines to ensure correct technique for 85 exercises that increase power in the core, upper body, and lower body.

The third edition has been expanded to include over 90 preparatory exercises for power activation within a warmup and a new chapter on advanced methods of explosive power training. In addition, it offers more detailed guidance on assessments and how the results should shape programming.

You will also have access to six sample programs tailored to specific sports: football, basketball, track and field, volleyball, and more.

Cultivate strength, power, and speed for better athletic performance! High-Powered Plyometrics, Third Edition, provides the most systematic, comprehensive, and practical approach to explosive power training available.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Radcliffe has served as strength and conditioning coach for the University of Oregon for 40 years. He has coached Olympians and world championship medalists, and from 2016 to 2019 he worked with USA Hockey for the U.S. women’s gold-medal-winning team.

Radcliffe has guided athletes in football, basketball, track and field, baseball, volleyball, tennis, golf, gymnastics, acrobatics and tumbling, and cycling during his career. He is a noted authority on exercises dealing with the improvement of speed and quickness.

Radcliffe has taught and coached a variety of sports. He was the athletic trainer at Aloha High School from 1978 to 1983. He then did graduate studies at Colorado and worked in private business before joining the Oregon Ducks staff. Before graduating from Pacific University in Oregon with a degree in physical education and health in 1980, he played four seasons as a defensive back and was captain of the special teams. Radcliffe earned his master’s degree in biomechanics and motor behavior from the University of Oregon.

Active in national organizations surrounding his profession, Radcliffe has been certified by USA Weightlifting, the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He also has written books, been published in numerous professional journals, and produced videos on plyometrics. He has presented internationally on the development of athleticism.

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Verlag
Human Kinetics
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1718227981
ISBN 13 
9781718227989
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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