Book Description
Detailed instructions on how to successfully integrate strength and conditioning training into a year-round basketball improvement program. Section one covers the keys to maintaining peak performance: nutrition, conditioning basics, flexibility, and injury prevention. Section two and three provide instructions for performing forty basketball-specific strength and power training exercises and includes complete year-round strength programs. The final section examines movement training for basketball, with keys to enhancing speed, quickness and agility.


From the Author
Tom Emma is the president of Power Performance, Inc., a company that specializes in training athletes in strength, conditioning and athletic enhancement techniques. He is a graduate of Duke University, where he was a three-year starter on the basketball team and squad captain his senior year. His .843 career free-throw percentage is among the highest in Duke history. He was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1983 NBA draft. Tom has a masters degree from Columbia University and lives in New York City.

FROM THE PUBLISHER