The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 2) [Paperback]

Rob Price (Author), Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)

Book Description

Series: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 2 | Publication Date: June 1, 2003

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

No other badminton 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 putaways and increase racquet speed. It will have you hitting the birdie like never before. By following the programs in this book, you will increase your speed, power, and agility, enhancing your drop, flick, and drive shots until the end of the match.

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 competed four times at the N.E.O.A.A. badminton regional level winning the ladies doubles event twice. I competed at O.F.S.A.A. badminton two years in a row winning 7th place the first time (a bronze medal in the "B" flightl) and 4th place in Ontario the second time (an antique bronze medal in the "A" flight). I have won many awards in ladies singles at various N.O.B.A. circuit tournaments as well as ladies doubles and mixed doubles events at the N.O.B.A. level. I have won badminton team MVP 4 years in a row as well as this year's athlete of the year for my accomplishments in badminton. I have attended 3 badminton camps with Stefan Wojcikiewicz and Andrew Dabeka, Canada's best, in order to raise my level of play. I found that "The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton" helped me out in many ways for not just badminton but for an overall physical fitness level as well. The book helped me gain better physical strength and fitness as well as an increase in court speed, not to mention an increase in my confidence level. I would definitely recommend your book to other athletes and have already informed Wojcikiewicz about it. The book also helped me to focus in on training for badminton. I am hoping to play at the University level this fall if I make it, I can attribute a big part of it to you! --Abbi S

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: 74 pages
• Publisher: Price World Enterprises (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549005
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549003
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 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: #1,643,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Racket Sports > Badminton

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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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A reasonable book for weight training..., August 20, 2009

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This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 2) (Paperback)

This book focus directly and specifically on weight training.
It shows you the techniques for using a gym with most of it illustrated with picture.

It also has some recommended program with methods of calculating the exact weight for training etc.
Overall, it seems to be a generic gym book but with the routine focused on muscle group or body part specific to badminton.

At this moment, I will give it an average rating.
Will give the program a try to see whether it will improve my physical conditions (agility and speed) for badminton.