Your Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Fit for Any Sport - Softcover

Fulcher, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843580020 ISBN 13: 9781843580027

Publisher: Metro Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Do you long to get into exercising regularly but don't know how to start? Or are you keen to get back into it but worry whether you're fit enough? Or perhaps want to push on to higher levels? Whatever your fitness status, Your Personal Trainer guides new and experienced sports players alike through safe and effective ways to train, whether for football, hockey, running, tennis, golf, skiing, badminton or many others. Writing in easy-to-understand language, Kathy Fulcher and Pat Fox give advice on everything from assessing your own fitness, health and lifestyle to beginner's training in just about any sport you can think of and progressing, if you wish, to more advanced levels. Questionnaires and simple tests help you to see how the experts judge fitness or performance, and how you too can monitor your own progress. Always encouraging but never pushing you further than it is safe to go, this book is the essential guide to exercising safely. It also contains general information on sports terminology; the what?, how? and why? of training; nutrition for sports people and treating injuries. There are step-by-step illustrations of exercises and experts' tips boxes throughout.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Kathy Fulcher is an exercise and lifestyle consultant. She launched the Westpoint Health Club in Dublin in 1997, and was previously exercise consultant for Weight Watchers UK as well as fitness guru for GMTV. She was Laboratory Director at the National Sports Medicine Institute, St Bartholomew's Hospital and is accredited as a sports physiologist by the British Association of Sports Science and a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and British Nutrition Society. Kathy has also appeared on TV and radio programmes from Radio 5 Live to Esther, and writes regularly for magazines, including Zest, Slimmer, Health & Fitness, and Marie Claire. Patrick Fox is Managing Director of Palio Sports Performance, London. His clients include WASPS Rugby Football Club, The England Rugby Squad, Forza Fitness Equipment as well as several leading individual athletes. Previous clients have included Leeds United Football Club and London Towers Basketball Team. He has appeared on various television programmes, including the BBC2 series Fit to Play in 1996, and has contributed to numerous magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan and Vogue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Metro Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843580020
• ISBN 13: 9781843580027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256