Aplicaciones prácticas desde la preparación física

Provides trainers and athletes with exercises for improving speed, strength, and power during sport performance, based on best practices in functional training. Describes what functional training is, how to analyze the demands of a specific sport, how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of athletes, how to design a program, and exercises for stretching, and dynamic warm-up; lower body, core, upper body, and pylometric training; Olympic lifting; and performance enhancement programs. This edition updates all information in the original version, Functional Training for Sports, and has new...

Parents are the key in sport development. The roles that parents develop in sport with their children, either in a leisure or competitive way, are complex and varied. However, the literature that makes a distinction between the father and the mother is very limited. This book has expected, therefore, to contribute to know much better the mothers´ role in that sport development. Her presence has always been obscured by the male perception of the sport activity. To give the mothers voice and presence has been the main goal of this book. Mum, thanks! Is an appreciation to the work that many...

"Correr para vivir, vivir para correr", y "Correr mejor, vivir mejor", actualizados en una edición definitiva y compilados en un solo libro. Un manual de instrucciones para quienes quieran iniciarse en el running, y para que los ya iniciados disfruten cada vez más de su experiencia.

La utopía del portero es una novela que nos habla de la vida. El fútbol es vida y del fútbol se aprende para la vida. El fútbol es una expresión de libertad y de pasión, de diversión y mito, pero por encima de todo, es una infinita fábrica de sueños; un lugar donde se propician las segundas oportunidades, tal y como le ocurre al protagonista sin nombre de esta historia, que nos dice que: "La utopía del portero es marcar un gol. De falta. De cabeza. A la desesperada en el rechace de un saque de esquina. La utopía del portero es desear lo imposible...". Ángel Silvelo utiliza, con...