Complete Conditioning for the Female Athlete: A Guide for Coaches and Athletes

Women athletes are strong, powerful and dedicated to their sports. And they have specific needs when it comes to training and conditioning. Female athletes don't need another conditioning book that is written for men with a chapter about women tacked on as an afterthought. With this book women can learn how to train their bodies for great performance in their sport. The needs of a volleyball player are different from that of a dancer; the needs of a martial artist are different from that of a swimmer. Each sport is different. It's a simple concept that can create big headaches when designing a training program. This book gives women the information they need about their bodies and their sports to design the best possible training programs. Whether she is looking for speed, size or power, she will learn what sport-specific exercises and training methods offer the right results -- and what ones won't work for her sport. This is a comprehensive resource that includes information on muscle types and fibres, plyometrics, aerobic training, over-training, flexibility, speed, injuries, nutrition, stress, harassment, mental conditioning, and scientific findings from the world's top researchers. Much more than a general conditioning book, women will rely on the sport-specific advice and information.

Dr. Bob O'Connor is a retired professor of health and physical education and a licensed psychologist Dr. Kari Fasting the former president of the International Society for Sport Sociology and is the current vice president of WomenSport International Diane Dahm M.D. did graduate work in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Medical School where she is presently an instructor and a consultant in the Department of Orthopedics Christine Wells is a former university teacher of exercise physiology and kinesiology. She has also been a university athletic trainer