Books
If you’ve got a little down time in between running wind sprints why not take a look at some reading material to make your training even more optimal.High-Performance Training for Track and Field (William J. Boverman, William H. Freeman) includes training schedules for 15 events that can be adapted for any athlete, regardless of age, sex, or level. Part I, Foundations for the Training Program, presents the basics of sport training and conditioning, designing training programs, the Oregon training schedule sheets, and testing team candidates. Part II, The Training Programs, includes these events: short sprints and relays, long sprint (400 meters), high hurdles, intermediate hurdles, middle distances (800 and 1500 meters and the mile), longer distances (cross country, steeplechase, 5000 meters and longer), high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, hammer throw, and combined events.Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field (Robert G. Price) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date track and field-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round track and field-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. Athletes of all events, from sprinting to shot put, have used and benefited from the information in this text. No other track and field book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have all types of track & field athletes increasing speed, flexibility, power, strength, and endurance unlike any book before it. No longer will you find yourself becoming tired at the end of an event or losing distance on javelin or discus throws due to fatigue. By following this program you will eclipse your previous records and eliminate unnecessary injuries. 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!Getting Started in Track and Field Athletics: Advice & Ideas for Children, Parents, and Teachers (Gary Barber) introduces the history, rules, techniques and competition strategies of each event as well as suggesting ways of making the events fun for even the most un-athletic child. Reviewers comment the author does a “great job of capturing what is really needed with starting kids in athletics.”Bill Bowerman’s High-Performance Training for Track and Field (Bill Bowerman, Bill Freeman) is a step-by-step guide for teacher-coaches at all levels. Coaches in their first years will find it to be a model for success, and experienced coaches will find its systematic analyses of training methods an invaluable addition to their own expertise. This book adds the theoretical bases that underlie training, summarizing what researchers know about training and competition and discussing the most advanced, scientifically monitored, foreign endurance training system in the world today. It tells, briefly and simply, what you need to know about periodization in training, overload theory, and the effects of nutrition and psychology on today s training. The training patterns reflect the very latest scientific training methods. Chapters include: The Essentials of Scientific Training, The Oregon School of Running, Sprints, Hurdles, and Relays, The Jumps, The Throws, The All-Around Athlete, and Directing Track and Field Programs.