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Books on Exercise Physiology | Books on Injuries and Health Maintenance | Books on Nutrition | Books on Physical Training | Books on Mental Training | Videos on Martial Arts & Sports | Books and Videos on Self-Defense |
Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance by William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch
Every instructor of sports or martial arts should read at least this one book on exercise physiology. Without a solid knowledge of exercise physiology much training time is wasted, sometimes great talent is lost, one can believe magazine and newspaper “fitness experts,” and easily make a fool of oneself.
Physiology of Sport and Exercise by Jack H. Wilmore and David L. Costill
A basic text on exercise physiology. Easy to read and great for introducing athletes to fundamental concepts of physiology of exercise and sports training. Includes recent research on strength gains, aerobic endurance training, tapering, chronic fatigue, and overtraining.
We will add here more books on exercise physiology when either Amazon.com will list them or we will find alternative online sources for these books.
Applied Kinesiology: Muscle Response in Diagnosis, Therapy and Preventive Medicine by Tom Valentine and Carole Valentine with Douglas P. Hetrick, D.C.
Applied Kinesiology is a noninvasive and inexpensive method of diagnosing and quickly treating injuries chronic and sudden, as well as overtraining, fatigue and any other health problems.
Applied Kinesiology: Synopsis by David S. Walther.
A must-read book on maintaining good health, and on dealing with injuries and other obstacles to peak performance.
Applied Kinesiology: A Training Manual and Reference Book of Basic Principles and Practices by Robert Frost.
A less expensive alternative to dr. Walther's Applied Kinesiology: Synopsis. Not as thorough but it explains mechanisms of the reflexes used in Applied Kinesiology and therapeutic procedures. Includes diagrams of the basic muscle tests and the appropriate reflexes.
Back Care Basics: A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief by Mary Pullig Schatz
Back Care Basics teaches how to get rid of back pain , neck pain, and how to correct posture. The gentle exercises for each type of spinal problem are grouped according to need, described in detail, with photos, and the rationale for doing them is given.
Readers report getting great results very quickly—even after just one week of following the easy-to-follow program.
Get this book if you have any back, or neck pain, or poor posture.
Complementary Sports Medicine by Philip Maffetone, D.C.
Complementary Sports Medicine shows how to combine various therapies in a holistic approach addressing individual needs of an athlete. It explains how to discover causes of potential injuries and prevent the injuries, how to determine which therapies will work best for a given athlete.
Liangong: Healing Exercises for Better Health by Wen Mei Yu
Liangong is a set of exercises for prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. Use it to keep your joints and muscles in good shape and to speed up your recovery between workouts. Tom Kurz recommends getting the book “Liangong” and the video “Liangong Part I”. (There are three videos--part I, II, and III--but if you have the book, then Part I of the video suffices because in the introduction it shows the whole set of exercises.)
Video Liangong, Part I; Video Liangong, Part II; Video Liangong, Part III (available from CFW Enterprises)
Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury by Ben E. Benjamin, Ph.D., with Gale Borden, M. D.
With this book, if you have hurt yourself, you can find out what your aches and pains mean and how to treat your injury.
Management of Common Musculoskeletal Disorders: Physical Therapy Principles and Methods by Darlene Hertling, Randolph M. Kessler, Elizabeth Kessler (Illustrator)
Management of Common Musculoskeletal Disorders should be read by every coach and athlete. Reading it can be the best injury prevention, making people aware of the significance of all the little symptoms felt days, weeks or even months before a major injury occurs. Athletes who are injured will find in this book the most effective exercises for self-mobilization and strengthening injured muscles. This excellent book should help an injured athlete evaluate qualifications of physical therapists or even design one's own program of therapy.
Pain Erasure: The Bonnie Prudden Way by Bonnie Prudden
Pain Erasure teaches a method of pain relief for muscles damaged from injuries, poor posture, and the stresses of daily life. The method requires no special training or equipment and its simple techniques can be performed in the home. Reportedly it has an extraordinary 95 percent success rate.
The Sports Medicine Bible: Prevent, Detect, and Treat Your Sports Injuries Through the Latest Medical Techniques by Lyle J. Micheli, M.D.
Sports Medicine Bible covers sports medicine including female-specific sports injuries, exercise and the elderly, and the causes and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries from foot to head.
Enter The Zone: A Dietary Road Map by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren
Enter the Zone tells how to achieve peak mental and physical performance and permanent fat loss through balancing protein, fat, and carbohydrate in the diet.
Mastering The Zone: The Next Step in Achieving Superhealth and Permanent Fat Loss by Barry Sears and Mary Goodbody
Master the Zone is a sequel to Enter The Zone. It gives even more detailed information than Enter The Zone on designing diet for peak performance. It includes new recipes and compelling medical facts.
The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness by Philip Maffetone, D.C.
The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness explains how to train and what to eat for consistent good health and high performance. This book has glowing reviews from Kent Johnson, strength and conditioning coach of Green Bay Packers, and from Anthony Robbins, best-selling author of motivational books.
The Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
The Protein Power Lifeplan gives information complementing that in Enter The Zone. It is written simpler and its explanations of the nutrition are more thorough than those of Dr. Barry Sears.
The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet by Rachael F. Heller and Richard F. Heller
The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet covers some issues not discussed in Protein Power and in Dr. Barry Sears' books, for example, importance of timing the meals.
Children and Sports Training: How Your Champions Should Exercise to Be Healthy, Fit, and HappySP by Józef Drabik
Children and Sports Training explains what are "sensitive ages" for development of endurance, coordination, speed, strength, flexibility and how the ways of developing these abilities change depending on the child's age. Teaches how to match the right sport with the right child, the right training program for the child's age and gender.
Explosive Power and Jumping Ability for All
Sports: Atlas of ExercisesSP by Tadeusz Starzynski and Henryk
Sozanski
This book explains how to develop explosive power, special endurance for explosive
movements, speed, coordination, and flexibility. It shows ready-made progressions of
exercises for an amazing variety of major sports, including most track-and-field events,
ball games, racquet sports, combat sports (kickboxing, boxing, judo, wrestling, fencing)
and many more.
The Gambetta Method: Common Sense Training for Athletic Performance by Vern Gambetta
In only 96 pages Gambetta introduces fundamental concepts of rational sports training. Gambetta gives sound advice without delving deeply into the science behind effective training methods, procedures, and exercises.
The Gambetta Method covers conditioning (including speed, strength, and power), rehabilitation, and planning of training.
Some differences of approach and terminology notwithstanding, this book is an excellent companion to more detailed books on sports training such as Supertraining by Siff and Verkhoshansky (available from M-F Athletic Company at www.mfathletic.com), Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training by Bompa, or Science of Sports Training: How to Plan and Control Training for Peak Performance by Kurz.
Specialists educated within the East European system of physical culture (physical education, sports, and recreation) will find in The Gambetta Method a concise overview of the American state-of-the-art approach to sports training from one of the leading American authorities.
The High Performance Heart: Effective Training for Health, Fitness and Competition with the Heart Rate Monitor by Philip Maffetone, D.C. and Matthew Mantel
The High Performance Heart explains how to use a heart rate monitor to control endurance training.
The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness by Philip Maffetone, D.C.
The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness explains how to customize exercise and nutrition program to reach top athletic shape and the best health. This book has glowing reviews from Kent Johnson, strength and conditioning coach of Green Bay Packers, and from Anthony Robbins, best-selling author of motivational books.
Periodization Training for Sports: Programs for Peak Strength in 35 Sports by Tudor O. Bompa
Periodization Training for Sports tells how to design strength training so athletes display top strength, or power, or muscular endurance during the contest and not before the contest or after.
Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training (1999) by Tudor O. Bompa
Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training deals with all aspects of athletic training and also explains the theory of periodization and how to apply it to any given sport. This book formerly titled Theory and Methodology of Training is better organized and easier to read than previous editions of Bompa's Theory and Methodology.
Power Training for Sport: Plyometrics for Maximum Power Development by Tudor O. Bompa
Power Training for Sport shows how to dramatically and safely improve athletes' jumping ability and power.
Science and Practice of Strength Training by Vladimir M. Zatsiorski
Science and Practice of Strength Training, written by world renowned sport biomechanist and former conditioning consultant to the Soviet Olympic Teams, shows how to use scientific principles to improve athletes' strength.
Science of Sports Training: How to Plan and Control Training for Peak PerformanceSP by Thomas Kurz
Science of Sports Training explains the methods that Eastern European sports training specialists use for the safest and fastest development of strength, speed, reaction, endurance, and flexibility, as well as technical and psychological skills. Illustrated by examples from several sports, the principles and methods of training explained in this book are easily applied in any sport.
Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility TrainingSP by Thomas Kurz
High kicks and splits with NO WARM-UP! Stretching Scientifically teaches the most effective, the safest, and the fastest stretching method.
Strength, Speed, and Endurance for Athletes: 100 combative activities for partners by Jurgen Hartman
Strength, Speed, and Endurance for Athletes shows partner exercises from combat sports. The rules are simple, no special clothing is needed. Includes exercises to develop reaction, balance, orientation, strength, speed, and endurance.
Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks by Randall J. Strossen
Super Squats tells how to gain strength without drugs, fancy machines, or long routines. Squats build mass of the whole body—not just of the legs.
Training for Endurance by Philip Maffetone, D.C.
Training for Endurance presents training program for endurance athletes--marathoners, triathletes, and cyclists. Recommended by Mark Allen (Six-Time Ironman Champion), Mike Pigg (Two-Time Triathlete of the year, World Cup Champion), and Stu Mittleman (World Ultramarathon Champion).
Teaching Fundamental Gymnastic Skills by Debby Mitchell, Barbara Davis, and Raim Lopez
Covers teaching gymnastic skills up to back handspring (floor) and skills of similar or lower difficulty on the apparatus (beam, vault, bars). For each skill it gives cues that address different learning styles: bodily/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmical, logical/mathematical, verbal/linguistic, and visual/spatial.
I Can Do Gymnastics: Essential Skills for Intermediate Gymnasts by USA Gymnastics
Shows progressions of gymnastic skills up to back handspring (floor) and intermediate skills on the apparatus (beam, vault, pommel horse, low bar, parallel bars, uneven bars, rings).
Tapping the Healer Within: Using Thought Field Therapy to instantly Conquer Your Fears, Anxieties, and Emotional Distress by Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D with Richard Trubo
Complete do-it-yourself instructions on getting rid of anxieties, fears, phobias, self-sabotage, and addictions.
Most psychologists believe that a phobia or an anxiety has its cause in one's personality disorder, so the personality has to be treated (for a long time and lots of money). There are psychologists, however, who believe that anxiety and phobias need not be related to personality but to physiological causes. For example, an athlete can acquire a performance anxiety if he or she practices a difficult technique often enough (in some cases one workout can be enough) with great fatigue or with some, even seemingly light, repeated trauma. Or if the practice or performance happens often enough when an athlete is not comfortable mentally or physically or under too much stress--sports-related or not.
In this book Dr. Callahan gives complete how-to instructions on breaking the association between physiological symptoms of stress and the object of anxiety or phobia. (An excellent explanation of this method is in Applied Kinesiology: Synopsis by Dr. Walther.)
Freedom from Fear Forever by Dr. James V. Durlacher
Complete how-to instructions based on Roger J. Callahan's method for getting rid of anxieties, addictions, self-sabotage, fears, and phobias, but addressed mainly to therapists. One has to dig into the text to make up a short self-administered treatment. Nevertheless it complements information in Dr. Callahan's book.
Gold Medal Mental Workout for Combat Sports: Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Karate, Kick-Boxing, Taekwondo, WrestlingSP (one 122 p. book, six audiocassettes, training log) by Dariusz Nowicki
Gold Medal Mental Workout for Combat Sports by Dariusz Nowicki, the best East European sports psychologist, can make you a winner! This program has proved itself with Olympic and world championship victories. Be the master every time! Be recognized for your competence! Just listen to the audiotapes and follow the simple instructions in the book.
"Nowicki's mental workouts helped me to overcome fear and anxiety and gave
me self-confidence."
--Pawel Nastula, Gold at '96 Olympics and '95 World Championship [Judo]
"GMMW helped me win two Olympic gold medals. I find it easier to
conduct my mental training with GMMW than with any other program. GMMW gave me an
excellent mindset for the Olympics."
--Waldemar Legien, Gold at '88 and '92 Olympics [Judo]
In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training by Terry Orlick
In Pursuit of Excellence shows how to turn ordinary competitors into winners. The author is an worldwide recognized sports psychologist.
Secrets of StretchingSP by Thomas Kurz
Secrets of Stretching shows how to gain great strength plus flexibility! This video will make one an expert on flexibility and strength training.
Power High Kicks with No Warm-Up! SP by Mac Mierzejewski
Power High Kicks shows you how to add height and devastating power to
your cold kicks!
Learn the essential techniques that will let you kick high and with power without any
warm-up!
Reduce your chance of injury! Learn exercises and drills that make sure your hips and
knees don't hurt when you throw high side and roundhouse kicks.
The author, Mac Mierzejewski, is a full-contact karate fighter and instructor. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Sports Medicine and a M.Sc. degree in Physical Therapy. Mac won full-contact European Championships Kyokushin Karate, Mas Oyama's Asia-Pacific International Open Karate Tournament, Canadian Kyokushinkai Tournament.
Basic Instincts of Self-DefenseSP with Pawel Nastula, by Thomas Kurz and Lt. Col. Grzegorz Piwowarczyk
Basic Instincts of Self-Defense shows easy, no-nonsense, complete system of self-defense based on the basic, natural, instinctive reactions that immediately neutralize any attack. No need for long training and quick reactions. This video shows how to defeat powerful holds, grabs, chokes, skillful punches, and kicks and disable the attacker with devastating locks and throws! Learning is quick because of NEW teaching methods. Each defense builds on movements you learned earlier.
Self-Defense: Tools of Attack—Club, Hatchet, Blackjack, Knife, Straight RazorRSD
The video Self-Defense: Tools of Attack shows practice drills of an experienced street fighter. In many confrontations his techniques have never failed him. He shows what is real and how to practice with common street weapons. Observe him to learn the correct techniques and the training drills with a club, hatchet, blackjack, knife, and razor.
Defend Yourself!: Every Woman's Guide to Safeguarding Her Life by Matt Thomas, Larry Strauss, Denise Loveday
Defend Yourself! offers reliable and easily learned techniques women can use to protect themselves in a variety of dangerous situations.
Sabaki Method: Karate in the Inner Circle by Joko Ninomiya and Ed Zorensky
Sabaki Method teaches one of the most effective styles of knock-down karate—Enshin Karate. It teaches all one needs to practice to be an effective striking-art fighter. Sequential action photos accompanied by excellent explanation teach every technique—from such basics as fighting stance, punches, strikes, blocks, and kicks through dodging and intercepting the attacks, controlling the opponent from his or her blind spot, defending against low kicks (shin kicks), to preparation for breaking (tameshiwari). This book gives the best information on preparing for breaking baseball bats with a shin or breaking suspended boards with a fist.
Conquer Crime by Don Paul
Don Paul (cop and former Green Beret) investigated the methods used by street criminals to come up with effective counter-tactics.
Surviving Edged Weapons by Dennis Anderson and Charles Remsberg. YOU MUST SEE IT!
See how prison inmates and knife experts practice knife fighting! See what really works and what doesn't against a knife attack!
See reenactments of actual knife attacks and how they could have been avoided. See officers "slaughtered" in spite of the fancy police baton defenses and "killed" (stabbed and slashed) with knife at distances they thought they could draw their guns and were safe.
This intense, action-packed 85-minute video features foremost American knife fighting experts: Leo Gaje, Jr. and Dan Inosanto as well as police officers who survived knife attacks. It is a most useful police training video ever made. You can order this video from Southern Police Supply, Inc. at http://www.policefirerescue.com.
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