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The Complete Guide to Outdoor Workouts
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Description
The Complete Guide series is designed for the fitness professional, coach, fitness enthusiast and student, packed with ready-made training programmes, tips and strategies.
Outdoor exercise is not only a cheaper alternative to the gym but it also offers immense scope and variety in terms of the activities you can do. Within the tried and trusted Complete Guides format comes this definitive guide focusing on functional training exercises in the great outdoors.
Covering physiology and core training principles as a starting point, this book includes different workouts for different environments - park, beach, back garden, and covers the use of a variety of popular equipment - from ViPRs to kettlebells.
Packed with colour photography, clearly illustrated exercises and the latest training programmes tailored to different outdoor pursuits, The Complete Guide to Outdoor Workouts is the ultimate how-to guide for any fitness enthusiast who wants to get out there and make the most of the outdoors!
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Exercise principles
Chapter 1 Basic conditioning principles
Chapter 2 Functional conditioning principles
PART TWO: Warming up principles and guidelines
Chapter 3 Functional warm-up
Chapter 4 Reactive balance and ladder drills
Chapter 5 Training guidelines, equipment and getting started
PART THREE: Outdoor conditioning workouts
Chapter 6 Walking and running
Chapter 7 Garden workout
Chapter 8 Beach workout
Chapter 9 Park workout
Chapter 10 Bootcamp drills
Chapter 11 Trim trails
Chapter 12 Buggy workouts
Appendix 1 Self-myofascial release
Appendix 2 Post-workout static stretches
Glossary
References and Further reading
Index
Acknowledgements
Product details
| Published | Jul 03 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781408181492 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Sport |
| Series | Complete Guides |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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