Program Design
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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
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