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Strength coaching in America : a history of the innovation that transformed sports /
"It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950's, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden; training emphasized speed and strategy, not &#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2019.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950's, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden; training emphasized speed and strategy, not 'brute' strength. Fast forward to today; the highest-paid strength and conditioning coaches can now earn $700,000 a year. Strength Coaching in America delivers the fascinating history behind this revolutionary shift. College football represents a key turning point in this story, and the authors provide vivid details of strength training's impact on the gridiron, most significantly when University of Nebraska football coach Bob Devaney hired Boyd Epley as a strength coach in 1969. National championships for the Huskers soon followed, leading Epley to launch the game-changing National Strength Coaches Association. Dozens of other influences are explored with equal verve, from the iconic Milo Barbell Company to the wildly popular fitness magazines that challenged physicians' warnings against strenuous exercise and the growth of academic research on strength. Charting the rise of a new athletic profession, Strength Coaching in American captures an important transformation in the culture of American sport." -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 310 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1477319808 9781477319802 |