von M. C. Siff 300 Seiten im Großformat, mit Tabellen und Abbildungen 42,99 EUR
Facts & Fallacies of Fitness
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Toe touching is dangerous. Squats damage your knees. Deadlifts cause slipped discs. Aerobic exercise is essential for cardiac health. Never hold your breath during exercise. Ballistic stretching is harmful. Resistance
training is bad for children. Weightlifting slows you down and makes you muscle bound. Straight leg situps destroy your lower back. Injuries are caused if your muscles have the wrong strength ratios.
You must do special exercises to strengthen the rotator cuff muscles. Leg extensions are safer than squats.
If you are even vaguely interested in fitness, sport and health, you
will have come across these proclamations and many more. Have you ever checked to see if they are true? Or do you simply follow them blindly? This book uses biomechanics, physiology, science and
logic to investigate these and hundreds of other beliefs drawn from many years of the author’s experiences in strength training, aerobics instruction, competitive lifting, sports coaching, sports
science and university teaching. What emerges is a startling exposé which reveals that many ideas accepted as gospel in the realm of fitness and sport are more fallacy than fact.
Its heretical chapters will take you on a controversial tour through the halls of fitness and sports mythology and change your views forever. Some of the unique material here has been presented at
many conferences throughout the world and has already made a major impact on the way in which fitness and sports training is viewed and taught.
If you are a personal trainer, group fitness instructor, sports coach,
physical therapist, any other worker in the health professions, or simply a fitness fanatic, then this book is for you. It will help you raise your level of professionalism and serve as a valuable resource for years to come.
The author is an internationally renowned sports scientist, consultant and presenter, who has helped numerous athletes, teams and organisations in their quest for excellence. He also written
Supertraining, one of the most authoritative textbooks yet published in strength training.
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