Program Design

1. The world of performance enhancement, athletic reconditioning and

personal training is changing drastically.

2. Athletes demand to be bigger, faster, stronger and leaner than ever

before.

3. To stay on the cutting edge of fitness, performance enhancement and

injury prevention, Performance Enhancement Specialists must follow a

comprehensive, systematic approach to training.

a) The approach must develop all the components necessary to

achieve physical, physiological and performance improvements

including; functional strength, neuromuscular efficiency,

functional flexibility, metabolic efficiency and nutritional

efficiency.

4. Accordingly, this chapter focuses on current concepts in resistance

training to provide Performance Enhancement Specialists with the

fundamental tools necessary to design an integrated training program.

Section I. Introduction

Section II. Training Principles

Section III. Types of Strength

Section IV. Systems of Resistance Training

Section V. Integrated Functional Resistance Training

Section VI. Chapter Summary

5. Training improves a variety of performance and health related

variables.1-5

a) Improvements in performance adaptations include increases

in: strength, power, endurance, flexibility, speed, agility and

neuromuscular control1,6-20

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INTEGRATED RESISTANCE TRAINING

IMPROVEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE ADAPTATIONS

INCLUDE INCREASES IN:

фЂ‚Ñ" Strength

фЂ‚Ñ" Speed

фЂ‚Ñ" Power

фЂ‚Ñ" Agility

фЂ‚Ñ" Endurance

фЂ‚Ñ" Neuromuscular Control

фЂ‚Ñ" Flexibility

b) Health-related benefits:

(1) Improved cardiovascular efficiency; beneficial

endocrine