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Author: William J Kraemer
A high-quality complement to the handbooks on particular sports, the handbookon Strength Training for Sport presents both the basic concepts and theoretical background for sports-specific strength training as well as the practical consideration in designing the overall program. Separate chapters deal with periodization, gender differences, detraining, and over training. Sample programs are presented for soccer, volleyball, wrestling, endurance running, swimming, and shot put and discus.
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Reviewer: Troy B. Jorgensen, BS (Utah State University College of Education & Human Services)
Description: This is a comprehensive guide to developing strength training programs. It describes the relationships between science and practice very well. It is an excellent reference for coaches and practitioners dealing with athletes of all levels.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the reader with scientifically-backed knowledge of factors and processes in developing sport specific strength training programs. The objectives are very worthy. There are few sources available that offer what this book offers in such a comprehensive manner. The authors do a good job of meeting their objectives.
Audience: This book is written for coaches and practitioners in the field of strength training athletes, but also for students. It has enough practical information and basic science basis of strength training that a novice could learn from it. The authors are very credible on the subject matter contained in this book.
Features: This book covers everything from how strength training was started to the fine details of writing an individual strength training program. It covers the scientific aspects of strength training in an easy to read format and does a great job of illustrating this science with tables, graphs and pictures. The book also goes over different programs for different sports and points out the important needs for those sports in regards to a stregth and conditioning program. Chapter 5 is the best part of the book because it covers all the different training methods for different sports. Coaches sometimes do not realize that each sport is different and requires different training protocols. This chapter does a great job of outlining each sport's needs assessment. The use of photos, graphs, and charts keeps the reader interested and helps explain the material in a hands on way.
Assessment: This book is an excellent resource for strength and conditioning professionals. It does an outstanding job of describing why you would incorporate certain aspects of a program. This book sets itself apart from other books in the field because it is so comprehensive and doesn't particularly focus on one sport.
Booknews
Seven chapters explain the principles of designing a weight routine for an athlete in a specific sport based on scientific research. Intended for coaches and sport physicians, the handbook identifies the effects of different training regimes on maximum force development, addresses the effectiveness of periodized training, and provides lists of exercises and sets to be performed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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3 Stars from Doody
Interesting textbook: Direzione ed amministrazione di professione d'infermiera: Una guida pratica
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Author: Gina Kolata
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society’s obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of the weight-loss industry. Kolata’s account of four determined dieters’ progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a conventional lowcalorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power.
Rethinking Thin asks whether words like willpower are really applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling with one’s weight and fantasizing about finally, at long last, getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the science of obesity and the history of diets and dieting—scientific and social phenomena that made some people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesity—giving us a better understanding of the weight that is right for our bodies.
The New York Times - Emily Bazelon
Here [Kolata's] argument is eminently sensible: Sure, shape up your body. But mostly, make your peace with it.
Publishers Weekly
New York Times reporter Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health. Here she offers an eye-opening book that questions all our received wisdom about why we get fat and the health hazards of those extra pounds. In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata (Flu) traces the history of dieting fads back to the 19th century; discusses our changing ideas about the ideal body (thinner and thinner); and, most importantly, explains how genetic and biochemical understanding has (at least among researchers) replaced the view of obesity as a lack of self-control. Most dramatic is Kolata's recounting of Jeff Friedman's groundbreaking search at Rockefeller University for the "satiety factor," a hormone he called leptin that tells our brains when we're full. The science alternates with moving chapters in which Kolata follows a group of people in a weight-loss study who are trying desperately to get thin—a quest that, as Kolata makes increasingly clear is sadly futile. In her final—and perhaps most surprising—chapter, Kolata blasts those in the obesity industry—such as Jenny Craig and academic obesity research centers—who are invested in promoting the idea that overweight is unhealthy and diet and exercise are effective despite a raft of evidence to the contrary. This book will change your thinking about weight, whether you struggle with it or not. (May)
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Table of Contents:
Contents
Prologue....................................................................3
1: Looking for Diets in All the Wrong Places................................9
2: Epiphanies and Hucksters.................................................31
ONE MONTH...................................................................61
3: Oh, to Be as Thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt).....................65
TWO MONTHS..................................................................81
4: A Voice in the Wilderness................................................85
THREE MONTHS................................................................101
5: A Drive to Eat...........................................................107
FIVE MONTHS.................................................................127
6: Insatiable, Voracious Appetites..........................................131
SIX MONTHS..................................................................153
7: The Girl Who Had No Leptin...............................................157
TEN MONTHS..................................................................183
8: The Fat Wars.............................................................187
TWO YEARS...................................................................213
Epilogue....................................................................219
Notes.......................................................................225
Acknowledgments.............................................................245
Index.......................................................................247
