Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Lacrosse) [Paperback]

Rob Price (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Lacrosse | Publication Date: October 1, 2005

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

No other lacrosse 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, speed, and flexibility resulting in harder checks, more accurate shots, and the ability power past defenders all game long. From the opening face-off you will be able to dominate the game like never before and maintain your intensity 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

I've been using your Lacrosse book and can't believe how great it is. It really has everything one needs to become a better athlete. I play lacrosse for my high school in Illinois and training plays a huge factor in how well you play. Great book and thanks a lot! --Alex

I play women's lacrosse at the University of Colorado, and your Lacrosse-specific book has brought a whole new level to my game. It s helped to keep me focused and on task throughout the entire year, not just in season. Most of my other workouts were focused on only the two months before the season so afterwards I would get out of shape and have to start rebuilding again before every spring lacrosse year. When I follow the book I can stay keyed into my game throughout the entire school year and even the summer. --Tracy L, College Lacrosse Player

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 OnFitness magazine, Golf Fitness Magazine, and Swimmer's World 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; 2 edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549420
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549423
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Other Team Sports > Lacrosse
  • #34 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Coaching > Hockey

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but not what I was hoping for, May 5, 2008

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B. Junkin-Mills "brookemom" (West Chester, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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I am a physical therapist with a lacrosse-obsessed son. I bought this book not because I need to know how to strength-train, but because I wanted to know what muscles should be strength-trained to improve lacrosse performance.

This book has a lot of information about strength-training in general, and it gives nice specific detailed workouts ('Day 2 do these exercises', etc). But it does not tell me anything that I, as a PT, don't already know. For example, it says that for lacrosse, the upper body muscles that should be strengthened are the chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps. Um, yeah. That about covers everything, so - not helpful.

To improve running speed it says to do sprints. Again, not so helpful.

I would say that the author is pretty well-educated with regards to exercise physiology. If you're looking for a concise yet thorough book about strength training, with various strategies for when to train and what you could substitute - this is a good book. If you're looking for information about exactly what muscles to train for lacrosse, I feel this book falls short.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for any high school or college player, March 8, 2007

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G. Boucher - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 16) (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for ... ... Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 16) (Paperback)

This book gives a detailed explanation of every exercise and has photos that show the correct way to do the exercise.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lacrosse - Why Weight Training, August 31, 2007

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William Vita "Lacrosse Junkie" (Huntington, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Lacrosse) (Paperback)

I found this book to be excellent for the young lacrosse player. It shows the basic techneques and how with repititions they can increase their strength but at a safe pace.