Strength Coaching in America : : A History of the Innovation That Transformed Sports / / Jason P. Shurley, Terry Todd, Jan Todd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Shurley, Jason P.,; Todd, Jan,; Todd, Terry,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

It’s hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden; training emphasized speed and strategy, not “brute” strength. F...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 • BEFORE BARBELLS Strength Training, Athletes, Physicians, and Physical Educators from the First Olympic Games to the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 2 • BUILDING THE BARBELL ATHLETE Bob Hoffman, Joe Weider, and the Promotion of Strength Training for Sport, 1932–1969
• Chapter 3 • THE SCIENCE CONNECTION Thomas DeLorme, Progressive Resistance Exercise, and the Emergence of Strength-Training Research: 1940–1970
• Chapter 4 • PIONEERS OF POWER Strength Training for College Sports before 1969
• Chapter 5 • AN EMERGING PROFESSION Boyd Epley and the Founding of the National Strength and Conditioning Association
• Chapter 6 • BRIDGING THE GAP The National Strength and Conditioning Association and Its Impact
• Chapter 7 • STRENGTH COACHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY New Paradigms and New Associations
• Appendix • IN MEMORIAM: DR. TERRY TODD (1938–2018) Pioneering Powerlifter, Writer, Sport Promoter, and Historian Who Changed the Cultural Paradigm for Strength
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX