Sports Fitness & Training - Hardcover

Jokl M.D., Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394549724 ISBN 13: 9780394549729

Publisher: Pantheon, 1987

Synopsis

Explains how to achieve top overall fitness and prevent, diagnose, and treat injuries and sports-related medical problems

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The authors, two physicians and a trainer (The Runner's Complete Medical Guide, provide here a near-encyclopedia of sports and training terms and techniques. The oversize volume is cumbersome and the writing style heavy-handed ("Obesity and its handmaiden, sloth, reflect a lifestyle incompatible with fitness"); the detail with which the authors discuss such topics as the cardiovascular system and shoulder injuries may make this a good textbook for exercise physiologists but hard going for the average reader. Approximately half of the book is divided into specific sportsand the authors are so thorough, they tell trainers and athletes that one of the requirements for baseball is a bat, which they then describe. But if readers decide to wade through such excess, the volume is also jam-packed with solid, accessible information, including exercises for individual injuries and sources of training equipment. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Written by two sports physicians and a trainer, this comprehensive fitness book treats a broad range of fitness issues that will be of interest to the serious sports participant. There is enough substantive information for this to have value as a sports medicine reference. Part I covers sports physiology and training techniques, with excellent information about equipment, drugs, nutritional aids, body systems, and training principles. Part II encompasses medical problems and athletic injuries. Chapters are organized anatomically (foot, shoulder, etc.) and include causes, symptoms, and treatment . Part III has chapters on 26 sports and is cross indexed with the chapters on injuries. Encyclopedic in coverage, this is recommended. Kenneth Tillman, Health & Physical Education Dept., Trenton State Coll., N.J.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394549724
• ISBN 13: 9780394549729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424