'Medicine Ball For All' Training Handbook [Paperback]

Patrick Mediate (Author), Avery Faigenbaum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 10, 2004

Provides the most complete medicine ball training guide for youth, adults, and seniors ever written. Begins with the basics of medicine ball training and continues through advanced program design considerations, including every step necessary to develop a successful conditioning program using medicine balls for individuals of all ages and fitness levels. Covers potential health and fitness benefits, how to choose the right medicine balls, safety considerations, training principles, program variables, individual evaluation, program prescription, warm-up and warm-down exercises, lower and upper body, specialty, reaction, stability, core, and flexibility exercises, periodization, progression levels, samples workouts, special populations and much, much more. Contains dozens of photographs and illustrations.

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About the Author

Patrick Mediate, M.Ed., CSCS*D, is a physical education instructor and track and field coach at Greenwich High School in Greenwhich, Connecticut and is also a personal trainer. He has served as Vice President of Health for the Eastern District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance and presently sits on the Board of Directors of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Avery D. Faigenbaum, Ed.D., CSCS, is an associate professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at The College of New Jersey. He is a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of strength and conditioning and lectures across the country to fitness and sports medicine organizations. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Faigenbaum has published over 100 articles on fitness and conditioning and in the author of two books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Coaches Choice; DVD Video edition (December 10, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585189006
• ISBN-13: 978-1585189007
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,491,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent book on Medicine Ball Training, February 26, 2009

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This review is from: 'Medicine Ball For All' Training Handbook (Paperback)

I'm a Certified Personal Trainer and this book was one of the texts for a CEC course (continuing ed). I have been working with medicine balls for a while and was really looking forward to reading it.

While it was a decent book with some good general info on working with med balls, overall it left me disappointed. It had some interesting exercises but overall was quite limited in scope or creativity.

It was also poorly produced with amateurish photographs that were very grainy.

In addition, they only had one photograph per exercise rather than starting and ending movements shown which I thought was a huge oversight.

While I got some decent information from the book, the next CEC course I did with the book "Strength Ball Training" (Twist/Goldenberg) was far superior in every way and also included a DVD for the more difficult exercises (see my review on amazon).

So, in my opinion, I would read this book if I could borrow it from a library but purchase "Strength Ball Training" instead, it's a much better investment!