Outlines a weight training program designed especially for both boys and girls and emphasizes the safe and proper way to train with dumbbells and barbells

Weight Training for the Young Athlete

Hatfield, Frederick C.

Children's Books

Atheneum

Dr. Fred Hatfield, author of the bestselling Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach, presents Power, his most advanced, most comprehensive book to date on the science of strength training. Revealing the latest discoveries and techniques, Power translates these findings into relevant, understandable training advice. Dr. Hatfield delves into the intricacies of strength--its eleven types and seventeen sources. He explains how the body builds strength and how scientific methods can improve it. Addressing the concerns of every serious bodybuilder, he considers issues both physical--fatigue factors, recovery times--and mental--concentration, motivation, and stress. He also explores the crucial role of diet and nutrition, providing programs for integrating training with proper diet and supplementation schedules and giving sound advice on precontest and performance diets. Through the use of current research, charts, tables, illustrations, and photos, Dr. Hatfield delivers vital new information no top athlete will want to be without. Frederick C. Hatfield, PhD, has written more than a dozen books on sports, fitness, and bodybuilding, as well as scores of research reports and articles.

Power: A Scientific Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

McGraw=Hill

In an age when the winning edge is measured in milliseconds, athletes must apply every resource to gain that edge. Ultimate Sports Nutrition offers state-of-the-art methods of diet and supplementation for achieving super fitness and peak athletic performance. Nutrition and fitness expert Dr. Fred Hatfield not only gives the latest advancements in nutritional sciences but tells you how to implement them into a total nutritional program that can drastically improve both strength and endurance. More importantly, he explains--in layman's terms, perhaps for the first time--how to enhance chemical interactions to achieve superior performance capabilities, carrying the reader light years beyond Durk Pearson's formula for "life extension" into the realm of life enhancement. Interspersed with graphics, charts, and anecdotes from top athletes and coaches, this book details guidelines for gaining weight, losing weight, improving muscle-to-fat ratio, and eating and supplementing during the season, off-season, and preseason. While keeping in mind the specifics of each sport and its physical demands, Hatfield discusses it all--from amino acids to energy enhancers, from herbs to metabolic activators to effective Soviet formulas--giving today's athlete the ultimate in peak performance. Dr. Frederick C. Hatfield, author of the bestselling Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach, has written more than 15 books on training, conditioning, nutrition, and bodybuilding.

Ultimate Sports Nutrition

Nutrition

This is the first book to gather scientific findings about progressive resistance training and to translate them into relevant and understandable training advice. Author of Powerlifting: A Scientific Approach and an editor for Muscle &amp; Fitness magazine, Dr. Frederick C. Hatfield has written an invaluable book that analyzes training systems and techniques, progressive resistance exercises, nutrition and diet regimens, bodybuilding psychology, and muscle-growth pharmacology in light of actual scientific findings. Whether exploding misconceptions concerning isolation exercises or heavy-duty training; explaining the causes of overtraining, muscle soreness, muscle growth, and muscle shaping; or providing a pictorial history of bodybuilding (along with a history of certain bodybuilding principles), Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach addresses the real concerns of the serious bodybuilder in a language that can be readily understood. Through use of recent research, charts, graphs, tables, and photos, Dr. Hatfield delivers vital, new information no bodybuilder--male or female--should be without. 
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<li>Rare photographs of early bodybuilding contests </li>
<li>Listings of winners from all major contests </li>
<li>Advantages and disadvantages of free weights and exercise machines </li>
<li>Vitamin and mineral charts listing best sources of nutrients for bodybuilders </li>
<li>Pros and cons of steroid use </li>
<li>Efficacy ratings of ergogenic aids </li>
<li>Latest research findings on relaxation and tension control techniques </li>
</ul> Frederick C. Hatfield, PhD, has authored over a dozen books, including Aerobic Weight Training, and scores of research reports and articles.

Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach

Hatfield,Frederick

Sports & Outdoors

Explains how to use weight-training techniques and equipment to improve cardiovascular fitness, with four basic training programs for aerobic conditioning that can be adapted to suit any specialty sport

Aerobic Weight Training: The Athlete's Guide to Improved Sports Performance

Contemporary Books

Powerlifting: A Scientific Approach

Outlines a basic weight-training diet program designed for general conditioning and to increase strength and endurance as well as describing the techniques for executing the squat, bench press, and dead lift utilized in powerlifting

Endurance training and nutrition

Weider Health & Fitness

Workout recovery & nutrition

Improving your energy levels nutritionally

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Weight Training for the Young Athlete

Power: A Scientific Approach

Ultimate Sports Nutrition

Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach

Aerobic Weight Training: The Athlete's Guide to Improved Sports Performance

Powerlifting: A Scientific Approach

Powerlifting: A Scientific Approach

Endurance training and nutrition

Workout recovery & nutrition

Improving your energy levels nutritionally