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FUNCTIONAL TRAINING IS THE FASTEST, MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION
Push your muscle development and athletic abilities to incredible new heights with Functional Training for Athletes of All Levels. Functional training conditions your body to respond to the strenuous demands of athletic competition. This method goes far beyond standard isolation movements, done sitting down, that simply increase muscular bulk. Functional training coordinates you muscles to work together to produce explosive power, tightrope-walker balance and cat-like agility.

With over 100 exercises―illustrated with step-by-step photos―and 20 sport-specific workouts, Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels will help you acquire the athletic movement skills necessary to maximize your performance in any sport.

Develop a rock-solid core for supreme stability

Strengthen your trunk for explosive power

Sharpen fast-twitch muscles for lightning-quick responses

Coordinate your muscles for full body control

Enhance your stabilizers for quick, agile movement

Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels customized sport-specific workouts for
•Baseball
•Basketball
•Bicycling
•Football
•Golf
•Gymnastics
•Hockey
•Lacrosse
•Rugby
•Skiing
•Soccer
•Softball
•Swimming
•Tennis
•Track & Field
•Volleyball
•Wrestling

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"I purchased this book for two reasons, first because I'm familar with the author and second because I was looking for a new book to help with planning workouts for athletes of varying sports. This book provides a lot of great information and provides easy to use workouts at any level."

Product details Paperback 176 pages Publisher Ulysses Press; 1 edition (January 16, 2007) Language English ISBN-10 1569755841

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Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels Workouts for Agility Speed and Power James C Radcliffe 9781569755846 Books Reviews :

Functional Training for Athletes at All Levels Workouts for Agility Speed and Power James C Radcliffe 9781569755846 Books Reviews

• I'm a certified personal trainer and a large part of programming for all of my clients is based of functional fitness. I also
  utilize agility based training for most of them as well. By making appropriate modifications most anyone can get tremendous benefits from
  a more athletic based approach to fitness. This type of training works the body in all the planes of motion and stimulates
  the neuromuscular system more thoroughly than just the typical sagittal plane cardio-machine and machine based resistance training approach.
  
  I bought this along with another book on agility to aquire more tools for my "toolbox".
  
  On the positive side, I feel that the author was extremely thorough and covers a lot of ground, both in explaining the background information and by including a large variety of exercises.
  
  On the less-positive side, there are quite a few times where I felt the presentation could have been laid out more clearly throughout the text. I've re-read
  several parts, several times and I'm still a bit unclear of "exactly" what he meant, especially in the execution of the more complex exercises.
  
  This book would greatly benefit from a companion dvd or at least online accompanying online video because there are some subtleties that are almost impossible to explain with words and photographs alone. This is particularly apparent in the "Sprint Training" section of the book and is a huge oversight in my opinion which I hope they will correct in the future.
  
  I'm not saying they have to show "every" exercise, but those that are the most complex in nature. In fact, the other book I purchased at the same time "Training for Speed, Agility and Quickness" (Human Kinetics) includes a dvd to cover the most complex drills and usefull tests included in the book. This makes a huge difference in terms of the the superior effectiveness of that book as a teaching tool.
  
  All that being said, James Radcliffe did do a great job of putting together a compendium of exercises and a system for using it specific to a wide variety of sports. He should be highly commended for his efforts. In fact, if they just had that accompanying footage it would be almost perfect (and surely I'd have given it 5 stars!) )
  
  I don't like having to criticize this book at all because the positives are heads and tails above the negatives, but I felt I should be honest in my assessment of all aspects of the book.
• Jimmy Radcliffe is one of the best strength and conditioning coaches in college sports as he has been the head man at U. of Oregon for nearly 2 decades.
  He is considered one of the leading experts in explosive/plyometric training and also movement/agility training in general.
  This is a good book for those relatively new to the strength coaching field who need some guidance in program design and exercise selection for their athletes.
• Clearly presented and well developed ideas. I would have appreciated a deeper investigation of training for different sports. Perhaps a new edition could have digital clips of the exercises.
• Expected much more. There are far better training books out there, even for the specific purposes of building "functional" strength. The exercise list doesn't compare to stuff that was made a long time ago. It's a shame, because I was really wanted to like this book, but it just isn't that good. For most people buying this(athletes, strength and conditioning coaches, recreational athletes, and law enforcement and military personnel) you will already know literally 95% of everything covered in this book. Sometimes that could be a good thing ,sometimes a bad thing; well in this situation it's a bad thing. That 95% is the basics that we all learned in our first exercise science class, with the other 5% being some new "fluff" about functional training, but many of you will know that 5% as well. Stick to the books from NSCA, they are far more detailed and a much better bang for your buck, and the athletes your training(or yourself)
• I purchased this book for two reasons, first because I'm familar with the author and second because I was looking for a new book to help with planning workouts for athletes of varying sports. This book provides a lot of great information and provides easy to use workouts at any level.
• Great book for training.
• This book was wrote in 2007, so it is no too old, but this type of workouts give the athletes more agility, speed and power in their respects disciplines. It is very detailed. It has a lot of pictures and explanations. As we know, James C. Radcliffe is the Head Strength and Conditioning at University of Oregon, so it is a useful book.
• Always on the lookout for better workouts.
  
  This one is my favorite so far. I find the way the book is structured perfect.