The ultimate guide to weight training for baseball / Robert G. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Robert G.

Series:

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports

Ultimate guide to weight training for sports series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Training.

Baseball.

Physical fitness.

Sports--Physiological aspects.

Sports.

Muscle strength.

Weight training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Price World Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Baseball" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date baseball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year round baseball-specific weight training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other baseball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players increasing arm strength, bat speed, and overall quickness and power on the diamond, leading to an increase in batting average, onbase percentage, steals, and overall performance. You will build the strength and power needed to hit the ball out of the park and you will build the stamina and endurance needed to go strong until the final pitch.Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too

Contents:

Baseball-specific training

pt. 2. Getting started

pt. 3. Recommended exercises

pt. 4. The necessities

pt. 5. Supplemental 4-week programs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-13280-X

9786613132802

1-936910-95-0