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Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning | 
 enlarge | Creators: Thomas R. Baechle, Roger W. Earle
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $79.00
Buy New: $47.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 3989
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 641
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0736058036
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780736058032
ASIN: 0736058036
Publication Date: June 18, 2008
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Product Description
Now in its third edition, Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning is the most comprehensive reference available for strength and conditioning professionals. In this text, 30 expert contributors explore the scientific principles, concepts, and theories of strength training and conditioning as well as their applications to athletic performance.
Developed by the NSCA, Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning is the most-preferred preparation text for the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) exam. The research-based approach, extensive exercise technique section, and unbeatable accuracy of Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning make it the text readers have come to rely on for CSCS exam preparation.
This edition contains updated research, especially in the areas of performance-enhancing substances, nutrition information, and strength training and conditioning. It also features expanded coverage of exercise techniques for lifting and spotting, expanded sport-specific testing guidelines, and comprehensive norms charts. The text has also been reorganized to enhance readers' understanding of adaptations to aerobic and anaerobic exercise.
The third edition presents the most current strength training and conditioning research and applications in a logical format designed for increased retention of key concepts. The text is organized into five sections. The first three sections provide a theoretical framework for application in section 4, the program design portion of the book. The final section offers practical strategies for administration and management of strength and conditioning facilities.
- Section 1 (chapters 1 through 10) presents key topics and current research in exercise physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, biomechanics, endocrinology, sport nutrition, and sport psychology and discusses applications for the design of safe and effective strength and conditioning programs.
- Section 2 (chapters 11 and 12) discusses testing and evaluation, including the principles of test selection and administration as well as the scoring and interpretation of results.
- Section 3 (chapters 13 and 14) provides techniques for warm-up, stretching, and resistance training exercises. For each exercise, accompanying photos and instructions guide readers in the correct execution and teaching of stretching and resistance training exercises. This section also includes a set of eight new dynamic stretching exercises.
- Section 4 examines the design of strength training and conditioning programs. The information is divided into three parts: anaerobic exercise prescription (chapters 15 through 17), aerobic endurance exercise prescription (chapter 18), and periodization and rehabilitation (chapters 19 and 20). Step-by-step guidelines for designing resistance, plyometric, speed, agility, and aerobic endurance training programs are shared. Section 4 also includes detailed descriptions of how principles of program design and periodization can be applied to athletes of various sports and experience levels. Within the text, special sidebars illustrate how program design variables can be applied to help athletes attain specific training goals.
- Section 5 (chapters 21 and 22) addresses organization and administration concerns of the strength training and conditioning facility manager, including facility design, scheduling, policies and procedures, maintenance, and risk management.
Chapter objectives, key points, key terms, and self-study questions provide a structure to help readers organize and conceptualize the information. Unique application sidebars demonstrate how scientific facts can be translated into principles that assist athletes in their strength training and conditioning goals.
Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning also offers new lecture preparation materials. A product specific Web site includes new student lab activities that instructors can assign to students. Students can visit this Web site to print the forms and charts for completing lab activities, or they can complete the activities electronically and email their results to the instructor. The instructor guide provides a course description and schedule, chapter objectives and outlines, chapter-specific Web sites and additional resources, definitions of primary key terms, application questions with recommended answers, and links to the lab activities. The presentation package and image bank, delivered in Microsoft PowerPoint, offers instructors a presentation package containing over 1,000 slides to help augment lectures and class discussions. In addition to outlines and key points, the resource also contains over 450 figures, tables, and photos from the textbook, which can be used as an image bank by instructors who need to customize their own presentations. Easy-to-follow instructions help guide instructors on how to reuse the images within their own PowerPoint templates. These tools can be downloaded online and are free to instructors who adopt the text for use in their courses.
Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, Third Edition, provides the latest and most comprehensive information on the structure and function of body systems, training adaptations, testing and evaluation, exercise techniques, program design, and organization and administration of facilities. Its accuracy and reliability make it not only the leading preparation resource for the CSCS exam but also the definitive reference that strength and conditioning professionals and sports medicine specialists depend on to fine-tune their practice.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Great item October 6, 2008
Did not take long to recieve on standard shipping, the book came in perfect condition and it is a great resource
good book, latest studies October 1, 2008
it has latest research studies, and colored, easier to understand. it smells weird when i first purchased, but i think it is just a smell of a new book that I don't like.
Good overall textbook for strength and conditioning September 26, 2008
My main reason for purchasig this textbook was for a study material for the C.S.C.S exam. Having read through 100 pages already, this book is well organized and easy to apply the concepts in understanding anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, bioenergetics, flexibility, etc.... Obviously, it does not go into super detail in each area, but for the person who wants to know more about the body and how it works in general for exercise, this is more than enough information.
And for the person who says Supertraining is a better book overall, I highly disagree for the most part. It is an advanced text, very cut and dry to read compared to the Nsca's book. Supertraining is more or less a reference than a book you can sit down and read anytime.
essentials of strength training and conditioning September 21, 2008
Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning
Book is fantastic easy to understand and very thorough. A definite requirement for every person undergoing Personal Training study and even a great reference book for qualified PTs
 Not a fan August 7, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Supertraining, and other texts from foreign authors can be used in the best way the reader deems them; just like the nsca books. However, ST was definitely not intended to be a "pretty" book. No, there are no color pictures in ST, but the information is 1000 times more in-depth. The NSCA books are so vague and provide very little information. Just because ST requires a little thought process doesn't make the book cut and dry. It actually inspires creative thinking, unlike the NSCA. If the NSCA is soo awesome, why can't they provide good enough coaches for the U.S. to win every single gold medal in the Olympics?? Why can't we win weightlifting? Why, with all of our resources and opportunities, why can't we win the most gold medals? Not the most bronze or silver- the most GOLD? How can you not say the NSCA has failed miserably?? Aren't they the NUMBER ONE AUTHORITY on strength training?? Whether you are a personal trainer at a small gym, or a strength coach for a football team, you owe it to your clients/athletes to find the best information possible. NSCA doesn't come close. Elitefts.com, Dryessis.com, powerdevelopmentinc.com, defrancostraining.com. That's where you will find good information.
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