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Complete Conditioning for Hockey Peter W. Twist

Complete Conditioning for Hockey By Peter W. Twist

Complete Conditioning for Hockey by Peter W. Twist


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Suitable for all ice hockey players and coaches, this work provides both essential base conditioning and hockey-specific training for optimal ice hockey performance. It aims to improve the readers physical condition as there is a direct connection between training and competitive performance in the skills and tactics of the sport.

Complete Conditioning for Hockey Summary

Complete Conditioning for Hockey by Peter W. Twist

Increase strength to carry the puck through traffic. Pack more power when checking an opponent. Improve quickness and agility and create angles for higher-percentage shots. Complete Conditioning for Hockey shows you how to achieve all of these performance goals and more!

Hockey players are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before. This special book and DVD package features a comprehensive training approach that will build players' physical abilities as well as the hockey-specific skills required for skating, puck handling, passing, shooting, and body checking. The book contains assessment tests for determining a player's fitness status along with specific programs designed to improve balance, quickness, agility, speed, and strength. The DVD puts the training into action, demonstrating key tests, exercises, and drills from the book.

With specific guidelines for seasonal workouts, Complete Conditioning for Hockey provides a multidimensional training approach that will show you how to get the most from your time in the gym and on the ice.

About Peter W. Twist

Peter Twist is the former strength and conditioning coach for the Vancouver Canucks and is currently president of Twist Conditioning Incorporated (www.sportconditioning.com), a company with athlete conditioning centers; one-on-one and team training; a line of 250 sport conditioning products; and sport conditioning specialist certifications delivered by Twist Master Coaches throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. A frequent guest lecturer at international fitness conferences and coaching clinics, Twist delivers workshops on sport conditioning to personal trainers, conditioning coaches, sport coaches, and medical professionals around the globe.

An NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist with a master's degree in coaching science from the University of British Columbia, Twist served as president of the Hockey Conditioning Coaches Association, editor of the Journal of Hockey Conditioning, and NSCA provincial director for British Columbia. Twist lives in North Vancouver with his wife Julie, daughters Zoe and Mackenzie, and dogs Rico and Loosy.

Table of Contents

DVD Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Key to Diagrams

Chapter 1. Conditioning for Hockey Performance
Chapter 2. Tests for Hockey Fitness
Chapter 3. Dynamic Warm-Up and Flexibility
Chapter 4. Base Conditioning
Chapter 5. Strength and Power
Chapter 6. Balance
Chapter 7. Quickness
Chapter 8. Agility and Reactivity
Chapter 9. Speed
Chapter 10. Constructing Optimal Workouts
Chapter 11. Year-Round Conditioning

Index
About the Author

Additional information

GOR003979868
9780736060349
0736060340
Complete Conditioning for Hockey by Peter W. Twist
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Human Kinetics Publishers
20070108
232
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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