Maximum Interval Training By John Cissik, Jay Dawes

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Are you ready to challenge yourself, and turn up the intensity of your workouts? Are you ready for a proven program that burns fat, increases muscle, and sculpts the physique you’ve always wanted? If so, then Maximum Interval Training is for you! Maximum Interval Training combines high-intensity exercises and nontraditional equipment with a variety of modalities and training options to stimulate muscle growth, avoid plateaus, and produce results. You’ll find step-by-step instructions, expert advice, and photo depictions of 147 exercises as well as ready-to-use programs for power, strength, endurance, quickness, agility, tactical training, and total-body conditioning. But rest assured that it won’t be more of the same. You’ll test your limits with a regimen of sprints, medicine balls, heavy ropes, kettlebells, sandbags, body-weight exercises, and suspension training. Train with maximum intensity for maximum results! Contents Part I: Maximum Interval Conditioning Chapter 1. Advantages of Maximum Interval Training Chapter 2. Equipment Options and Safety Considerations Part II: Maximum Interval Exercises Chapter 3. Body-Weight Training Chapter 4. Sprinting Chapter 5. Medicine Balls Chapter 6. Heavy Ropes Chapter 7. Suspension Training Chapter 8. Kettlebells Chapter 9. Sandbags Chapter 10. Other Training Formats Part III: Design of Maximum Interval Programs Chapter 11. Testing Considerations and Variables Chapter 12. Protocols for Measuring Fitness and Performance Parameters Chapter 13. Interpreting Results and Setting Goals Chapter 14. Creating a Personalized Program Chapter 15. Using Periodization to Push Performance to the Next Level Part IV: Maximum Interval Performance Programs Chapter 16. Power and Strength Chapter 17. Explosiveness Chapter 18. Endurance Chapter 19. Quickness and Agility Chapter 20. Tactical Training Chapter 21. Total-Body Conditioning Released 2015 368 Pages About The Authors John Cissik is the president and owner of Human Performance Services, LLC (HPS), which helps athletics professionals solve their strength and conditioning needs. He coaches youth baseball, basketball, and Special Olympics sports and runs fitness classes for children with special needs. He has written 10 books and more than 70 articles on strength and speed training that have been featured in Muscle & Fitness, Iron Man, and track and field and coaching publications. He is also the author of Human Kinetics’ Speed for Sports Performance DVD series. Cissik specializes in education, strength training for baseball, basketball, track and field, and speed and agility training. He has worked with athletes from high school to Olympic levels. In addition to his role at HPS, he is the director of fitness and recreation at Texas Woman’s University. John is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a strength and conditioning specialist and personal trainer and by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist. Jay Dawes is an assistant professor in the department of health sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Before joining UCCS, Dawes was an assistant professor of kinesiology at Texas A&M at Corpus Christi and the director of education for the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Jay has worked as a strength and performance coach, personal trainer, educator, and post-rehabilitation specialist for more than 15 years. A frequent presenter both nationally and internationally on topics related to health, fitness, and human performance, Dawes received his PhD from Oklahoma State University in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology with an emphasis in health and human performance.