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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating
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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating

    By Rob Price

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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating is the most comprehensive and up-to-date skating-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round skating-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results whether you are a figure skater or a speed skater.
    No other skating book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book provides you with the exercises needed to improve your footwork, speed, and power. By following this program you will increase your overall lower body strength making you faster, quicker, and more agile on the ice.

    Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

    As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781936910960
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating

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      The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating - Rob Price

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      By opening The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating, you have taken your first step towards achieving your athletic potential. This book is loaded with the most up-to-date sports weight training information and features a year-round skating-specific weight-training program. Upon completion of the text, you will know how to properly, safely, and effectively perform over 80 exercises and you will be ready to begin your training.

      The true importance of this book lies in the skating-specific program. It was created for one reason and one reason only; to improve your skating potential. It does this by increasing your strength, power, endurance, and flexibility in the parts of your body that are most important for performing better. The program was designed to supply you with the advantage you will need to outperform your opponents. By following the program, you will build your muscles with strength, endurance, and power. When called upon, you will be physically prepared and mentally ready to compete at the highest of your potential.

      Although skating is primarily a sport focusing on leg strength and endurance, there are certain upper-body muscle groups should not be ignored in order to achieve your maximum potential. The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating does not overlook the importance of these muscle groups and has you training your entire body in order to maximize your potential.

      This book does not teach you how to perform specific movements. It does not show you the best strategies to out-skate your opponents, nor does it give you any tips to improve your specific skills. This book does, however, provide you with the best methods, program, and strategies available to physically improve your body and maximize your skating potential!

      Year-Round Skating Program

      The weight room is the place to build up your muscles, become stronger, and more powerful. This program consists of four different four-week routines cycled together to build both absolute strength and explosive power. The first and third routines are designed for you to put on strength while the second and fourth programs are designed for power and explosion.

      After following the first two 4-week programs, be sure to take one week away from the gym to let your muscles rest and grow stronger before beginning your final two 4-week programs. Once you have completed the 16-week program, begin again from the beginning and substitute similar exercises at your leisure. (See ‘Substituting Similar Exercises’ section)

      Before you begin every weight-training session, this book recommends that you perform at least five minutes of abdominal work to warm yourself up and train to your midsection. It also recommends that you stretch for five to ten minutes following your workout.

      It cannot be stressed enough that while you weight train, you must supplement your weight-training activities with some sort of skating-specific activities to keep your body in skating shape. You must continue to practice your form, technique, and style consistently to help keep your body loose and ready to skate.

      Skating Off-Season Program

      Strength and Power Cycle

      Weeks 1-4 Strength Training

      Weeks 5-8 Power Training

      Weeks 9-12 Endurance Training

      Weeks 13-16 Power Training

      Warming Up

      Warming up is an essential part of a weight-training routine. A warm-up activity can be any type of low-level activity as long as it loosens up your body, gets your blood flowing, and prepares your body for the workout. Warming up is absolutely necessary if you plan to lift heavy weights. To walk into the gym and attempt to max out (lift the maximum amount of weight you can handle) without first warming up can cause injury because your body is not ready for the physical stress of a weight-training routine. In general, there are two major types of warming up, which are listed below.

      A full body warm-up is anything that increases your blood flow and literally warms you up. Examples of full-body warm-up activities include low-intensity activities such as jogging or riding the bike for five to ten minutes prior to lifting weights. Other examples include about five to ten minutes of an abdominal routine, swimming a few laps, or even some full-body stretching.

      An exercise-specific warm-up is properly executed by performing a light-weight set (group of repetitions) of an exercise before going into your prescribed routine for that same exercise with heavier weights. Ten repetitions are usually enough for a warm-up set. Basing your exercise-specific

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