Strength Band Training - Brossura

Page, Phillip; Ellenbecker, Todd

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0736090371 ISBN 13: 9780736090377

Casa editrice: Human Kinetics, 2010

Riassunto

Portable, lightweight and inexpensive, the resistance band is a basic piece of exercise equipment for over 30 million fitness enthusiasts and athletes. These easy-to-use and travel-friendly bands maximize strength, stability and power. Authors Phil Page and Todd Ellenbecker will help readers get the most out of resistance band training with more than 160 exercises targeting every major muscle group along with predesigned workout programs and sport-specific workouts for 13 endurance, power and rotational sports. Original.

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L'autore:

Phil Page, PhD, PT, ATC, CSCS, is a physical therapist, athletic trainer, and certified strength and conditioning specialist. He is the director of the Thera-Band Academy.

Page has worked with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks and athletic teams at Tulane University and LSU. He has lectured internationally on the scientific and clinical use of elastic resistance and developed an educational course on elastic resistance that is being taught in over 30 countries.

He is certified by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and was awarded the NATA’s Otho Davis Postgraduate Scholarship in 1991. He is the coauthor of two other textbooks, including The Scientific and Clinical Application of Elastic Resistance.

Page lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife and four children.

Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT, MS, PT, SCS, OCS, CSCS, is the clinic director at Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and is the director of sports medicine for the ATP World Tour. A licensed physical therapist, he has researched and taught in the field for 18 years.

Ellenbecker is certified by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as both a sports clinical specialist and orthopedic clinical specialist. The APTA also honored him with its Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Teaching Award in 1999. He was chairman of the APTA’s Shoulder Special Interest Group and is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal ofOrthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Ellenbecker is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). In 2003, the NSCA named him the Sports Medicine Professional of the Year. He also serves as chairman of the United States Tennis Association’s (USTA) National Sport Science Committee.

Ellenbecker lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife, Gail.

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• Editore: Human Kinetics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0736090371
• ISBN 13: 9780736090377
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224