Product Description

Gain an extra step on the competition! Build the speed agility and quickness that are crucial to sport performance.Edited by three strength and conditioning experts Training for Speed Agility and Quickness is the definitive source of speed agility and quickness drills and exercises for athletes and coaches. Detailed descriptions and diagrams help you understand how to correctly perform more than 200 of the best possible drills for developing these three key components of athletic movement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103631 in Books
• Brand: Human Kinetics
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
Lee E. Brown, EdD, CSCS*D, FACSM, is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and a previous member of the NSCA board of directors. He is also a certified health fitness instructor through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and a certified club coach by USA Weightlifting (USAW). In 2003 Brown received the NSCA Outstanding Young Investigator award for his research on high-velocity exercise. Brown holds both a master s degree in exercise science and a doctorate in educational leadership from Florida Atlantic University. Brown is now an associate professor of kinesiology in the department of kinesiology at California State University at Fullerton. Vance A. Ferrigno is the director of fitness and aquatics at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida. In addition, he has been a strength and conditioning consultant to professional and amateur athletes since 1990. He is certified through ACSM as a health fitness instructor (HFI) as well as a health fitness director. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the NSCA and a USAWF club coach. Ferrigno, who earned his bachelor s degree in exercise science from Florida State University, assists in developing and teaching the curriculum for a strength and conditioning course at Florida Atlantic University.

Customer Reviews

Effective Training Programmes that are Easy To Follow
After reading this great text, myself and another coach tried a few exercises with our rugby team at training and the improvements were visible - you or your players can go faster and be more agile with the right training. I'd recomend this text to anybody who wants to take their team to the next level. I've now passed this book on to a colleague who teaches a junior girls football team who continually tells me she loves it too.

I've heard there is a video that accompanies this book which I intend to check out!

great all round workout
after seen SAQ in action, i thought a book could not offer any more, i was wrong. This book is full of useful, practical and informative exercises. The sections are broken down and diagrams show what to do whilst the information provided fills in any blanks! It also offer alternatives to tax even the most fittest of trainers. Great exercises to add to your circuit class with expensive equipment!

It also includes some tests and example programs to get you started

Damaging approach to fitness training
The editors not only fail to attribute many aspects of what they write about, they fail to appreciate many of the most important aspects required to design an effective programme to improve the ability of amatuer or professional athletes. Difficult to read, this book only managed to confuse this already experienced trainer.