The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball [Paperback]

Rob Price (Author), Barb Greenberg (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball | Publication Date: September 1, 2006

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date basketball-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 basketball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other basketball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players increasing strength, power, agility, and overall quickness on the court, leading to an increase in rebounds, steals, blocked shots, and overall defensive efficiency. You will build the strength and power needed to dominate the post and under the basket and you will build the stamina and endurance needed to go strong until the final whistle.

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Hi, my name is Vincent and i play basketball in high school. I am small and because of your program and get more power and i am more stronger. That make me a complete and better player. I can go strong to the hoop and get the basket plus the foul and get more rebound even i am small. Thanks a lot for your marvelous book. --Vincent B

The ultimate guide to weight training for basketball has helped my performance substantially. I can now jump 2 inches higher and I am stronger. I am going out for the high school team this fall and I hope to make it. Thank-You --Lucas C

Your book is terrific! The book has helped our entire athletic program rise to the tops in the state. It also personally helped my son go from scrawny freshman to the starting power forward on his basketball team. I am the high school athletic director at a 1A school and in large part thanks to your book, we won the 1A state basketball championship in three out of the last four years and lost in the finals the year we didn't win it. Thanks so much! --Tom G

About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Price World Publishing; 4 edition (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549498
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549492
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Basketball > Coaching

More About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THANKS!, January 6, 2012

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This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball (Paperback)

Although I do not play organized basketball anymore, I would like to thank you for the improvements that this book has brought to my game. After having not played basketball for some time I was slow and couldn't jump. Now I am the most athletic guy on the court and leave my buddies asking "What happened?!" THANKS!!!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars There are Better Books, September 24, 2009

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This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball (Paperback)

If You're looking for a book that specifically focuses on weight training for basketball, you'll be better served by some other books out there. Aside from teh foreword and initial introduction, This seems more like any other weight training book than anything specifically basketball related. Try "Complete Conditioning for Basketball" instead. Complete Conditioning For Basketball (DVD/Paperback Book)

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Weight Training Product I have ever used......, February 8, 2004

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training is by far the best product on the market. I have tried everything from a personal trainer to those basketball strengh shoes, but nothing increased my strength, speed and vertical jump like the Ultimate Guide. This is the real thing people. See for yourself.