Complete Conditioning for the Female Athlete

by Bob O'Connor

Book Overview

Women athletes are strong, powerful and dedicated to their sports. And they have specific needs when it comes to training and conditioning. This book teaches women how to train their bodies for great... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930546475
• ISBN13: 9781930546479
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Wish Publishing
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Complete Conditioning For Female Athletes

I coach girls track and boys football at the high school level. I bought it for more info on my girls, but it is equally valuable for the boys--at least most of it. It gave me such updated information that I have never seen before. It is a must for all serious coaches.

Invaluable, indispensable, and comprehensive

Bob O'Connor (retired professor of health and physical education and a licensed psychologist); Kari Fasting (one of the world's top experts in issues related to women and sport); Diane Dahm (instructor and consultant in the Mayo Medical School Department of Orthopedics); and Christine Wells (former university teacher of exercise physiology and kinesiology currently working in the medical field) combine their considerable years of experience and expertise to provide readers with an accurately titled Complete Conditioning For The Female Athlete: A Guide For Coaches & Athletes. Different sports make different demands on the human body, the things that a tennis player calls upon her body to do are different from the demands a ballerina or a swimmer makes upon theirs. Here is an invaluable, indispensable, and comprehensive resource that includes information on muscle types and fibers, plyometrics, aerobic training, over training, flexibility, speed, injuries, nutrition, stress, harassment, mental condition, and more -- directly relevant to women athletes at any point of their physical development and performance levels. No physical education department, professional sports team, or woman athlete's personal reference library can afford to be without a copy of Complete Conditioning For The Female Athlete.