Educational Books and Videos
Books and videos are an excellent way for trainers to get the most recent updates on specific training modalities or diet practices. The NCSF book and video library is continually expanding as the demand for specialized health, fitness and training knowledge increases.
Exercising Through Your Pregnancy gives you the information you need to remain active and healthy before, during, and after your pregnancy. Based on Dr. James Clapp’s extensive research, the book explains the effects of regular exercise on all phases of pregnancy.
List Price:$19.95
The fully narrated interactive DVD video is an important part of the learning experience. The DVD allows students the opportunity to view over 200 individual training and assessment techniques before practice and application even takes place.
List Price:$29.00
The text applies concepts from a variety of areas, including nutrition and exercise physiology, to present a comprehensive view of the issues involved in overall weight management.
List Price:$129.00
Periodization is all about maximizing your training. By varying the timing and intensity of your workouts, you will get the greatest gains in strength, speed, power, and endurance.
List Price:$24.95
Need to gain muscle while cutting fat? Follow the number one plan for strength training and bodybuilding. This new edition gives you cutting-edge information on how to eat to build strength and power, increase energy, and lose fat. The book has been expanded, with new intake guidelines for supplements and herbs, a new section on “designer waters,” and more recipes for the author’s popular smoothies.
List Price:$19.95
Science of Flexibility and Stretching has long been considered the leading reference on the topic, and this new edition reaffirms that status. No other book covers these concepts and principles better.
List Price:$46.00
Now strength trainers, coaches, physical educators, and parents can design safe and effective strength training programs with Strength Training for Young Athletes.
List Price:$19.95
Whether you are considering a career as a personal trainer or searching for ways to increase revenue and gain new clients for your existing business, you'll find The Business of Personal Training to be an indispensable reference. Written by some of the most successful personal trainers in the country, this book provides the foundation for building your personal training business.
List Price:$29.00
This detailed illustrated text provides in-depth, three-dimensional views of the muscles in action during almost every strength exercise. This reference provides you with comprehensive anatomical drawings of every major muscle group and associated bone structure during each phase of movement throughout an extensive library of exercises. Tailoring workouts to specifically target muscle groups has never been easier thanks to Strength Training Anatomy.
List Price:$22.95
From football to tennis, track and field to volleyball, speed is a critical component of every athlete’s repertoire. Even recreational athletes often desire to increase speed. However, the proper way to design a safe and effective speed-training program is uncommon knowledge. Speed for Sports Performance will instruct fitness professionals in the proper way to assess and increase reaction time, technique, stride, mobility, and first-step explosiveness ultimately leading to increases in acceleration, maximum speed, and endurance. The different phases of the season within the calendar year are taken into consideration and exercises to decrease recovery time from/prevent injury are also explained.
List Price:$29.95
Flexibility for Sports Performance moves fitness professionals through a series of self-assessments, which allows for identification of areas requiring improvement and establishes a baseline for a flexibility program. Additionally, the program will identify exercise techniques designed to avoid injury and optimize muscle function on the court, field, course, track, mat, or in the water.
List Price:$29.95
Successful athletes must demonstrate good technique, proper conditioning, and a strong competitive spirit to execute winning performances. But one factor that decisively separates elite athletes from the rest of the pack is their ability to produce explosive, powerful efforts on demand. Generating the necessary power is only possible through an effective, multi-faceted power-training program designed to develop, enhance, and harness athletic power. Power for Sports Performance provides the tools to build a program for your needs, your sport, and your goals.
List Price:$29.95
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