Peak Performance: Training and Nutritional Strategies for Sport - Softcover

Hawley, John; Burke, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864484691 ISBN 13: 9781864484694

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1998

Synopsis

This is a text for coaches and athletes who want to improve their sporting performance via the application of scientific training and nutritional principles. It gives detailed, practical information on the principles of physical conditioning, and how these relate to explosive events (such as sprinting), endurance events (such as the Ironman triathlon) and team sports (such as rugby and soccer). A chapter on competition preparation has been included ("Getting it right on the day"), as well as an appraisal of scientific aids for athletes (heart rate monitors, altitude training, warm up and warm down, drafting and pacing, and hill training). The book includes contributions from leading coaches, who reveal the secrets to success in their events, and also look at what the future holds for athletes in the year 2008.

About this title

About the Author:

John Hawley is director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, has worked with elite athletes in New Zealand and South Africa and has published widely on nutrition. Louise Burke is head of the Dept. of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport, editor of the key text Clinical Sports Nutrition, and is widely published in international journals on nutrition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1864484691
• ISBN 13: 9781864484694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456