Strength coaching in America : a history of the innovation that transformed sports /

Strength coaching in America : a history of the innovation that transformed sports /

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Author / Creator:Shurley, Jason P., author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource (vii, 310 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports
Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports.
Subject:
Physical education and training -- United States -- History.
Physical fitness -- United States -- History.
Weight training -- United States.
Coaching (Athletics) -- United States.
Coaching (Athletics)
Physical education and training.
Physical fitness.
Weight training.
United States.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456263
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Other authors / contributors:Todd, Jan, author.
Todd, Terry, author.
ISBN:1477319808
9781477319802
9781477319796
1477319794
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950's, 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. Fast forward to today; the highest-paid strength and conditioning coaches can now earn $700,000 a year. Strength Coaching in America delivers the fascinating history behind this revolutionary shift. College football represents a key turning point in this story, and the authors provide vivid details of strength training's impact on the gridiron, most significantly when University of Nebraska football coach Bob Devaney hired Boyd Epley as a strength coach in 1969. National championships for the Huskers soon followed, leading Epley to launch the game-changing National Strength Coaches Association. Dozens of other influences are explored with equal verve, from the iconic Milo Barbell Company to the wildly popular fitness magazines that challenged physicians' warnings against strenuous exercise and the growth of academic research on strength. Charting the rise of a new athletic profession, Strength Coaching in American captures an important transformation in the culture of American sport." --
Other form:Print version: Shurley, Jason P. Strength Coaching in America : A History of the Innovation That Transformed Sports. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2019 9781477319796
Table of Contents:
  • Before barbells : strength training, athletes, physicians, and physical educators from the first Olympic Games to the twentieth century
  • Building the barbell athlete : Bob Hoffman, Joe Weider, and the promotion of strength training for sport, 1932-1969
  • The science connection : Thomas DeLorme, progressive resistance exercise, and the emergence of strength-training research, 1940-1970
  • Pioneers of power : strength training for college sports before 1969
  • An emerging profession : Boyd Epley and the founding of the National Strength and Conditioning Association
  • Bridging the gap : the National Strength and Conditioning Association and its impact
  • 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.

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