Wheelchair sport : a complete guide for athletes, coaches, and teachers
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33149
Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey, editor.
--Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics
, c2010.
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- Location
- Online
This text is a complete resource for all athletes, teachers or coaches involved in wheelchair sport. The book contains key information on choosing your sport, optimizing chair set-up, training programmes for every level of experience and skill, and much more.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Goosey-Tolfrey, Vicky
- Responsibility
- Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey, editor
- Place of Publication
- Champaign, IL
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Date of Publication
- c2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages)
- ISBN
- 9780736086769
- 9781450489737 (electronic bk.)
- 9781450452731 (electronic bk.)
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Wheelchair sports
- Sports
- Wheelchairs
- Abstract
- This text is a complete resource for all athletes, teachers or coaches involved in wheelchair sport. The book contains key information on choosing your sport, optimizing chair set-up, training programmes for every level of experience and skill, and much more.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Understanding wheelchair sport -- Introduction to wheelchair sport -- Sport chair set-up and selection -- Physiology of wheelchair sport -- Strength and conditioning for wheelchair sport -- Nutrition and body composition -- The travelling athlete -- Psychological aspects of wheelchair sport -- Pt. 2. Training for wheelchair sports -- Wheelchair basketball -- Wheelchair racing -- Wheelchair rugby -- Wheelchair tennis -- Handcycling.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
