List Books » Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body and Your Life
Authors: Mark Verstegen, Pete Williams, Nomar Garciaparra
ISBN-13: 9781594861680, ISBN-10: 1594861684
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: Reprint
MARK VERSTEGEN is owner of Athletes' Performance in Tempe, Arizona, a training facility that hosts world-class athletes in virtually every major sport.
PETE WILLIAMS is a contributing writer to USA Today Sports Weekly and Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal and has written about fitness and performance for many publications.
Core Performance, the breakthrough fitness program that has already shipped more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, is the first program that delivers strength and muscle mass, endurance and a lean body, balance and flexibility, athletic quickness and powerall in less than an hour a day. How? By giving you a personal coach who has worked with some of the most famous and successful athletes in the world today.
The intense focus on the muscles of your coreabs, lower back, hips, and thighswill help you stand taller and prevent the back pain from which most people eventually suffer. The detailed nutrition section guarantees that you'll feed your muscles, starve your fat, and get boundless energy when you need it most. This program is like nothing you've ever seen beforeit enables you to totally transform your body in just 12 weeks. The potential is within you, and the power to unleash that potential is within Core Performance.
Acknowledgments | ix | |
Foreword | xi | |
Part 1 | Welcome to the Core | |
Chapter 1. | Core Inspiration | 3 |
The Core Covenant | 11 | |
Chapter 2. | Core Beginnings | 13 |
Core Self-Evaluation | 17 | |
Chapter 3. | The Core Challenge | 19 |
Part 2 | The Core Workout | |
Chapter 4. | The Foundation: Building Your Pillar of Strength | 27 |
Chapter 5. | Movement Prep | 33 |
Brandon Wood on Core Performance for Young Athletes | 53 | |
Chapter 6. | Prehab | 55 |
Chapter 7. | Physioball Routine | 73 |
Mia Hamm on Core Performance for Women | 88 | |
Chapter 8. | Elasticity | 91 |
Chapter 9. | Strength | 113 |
Chapter 10. | Energy System Development | 139 |
Chapter 11. | Regeneration | 147 |
Chapter 12. | The Core Workout Worksheets | 169 |
Part 3 | The Core Nutrition Plan | |
Chapter 13. | How to Eat Better, Starting Now | 203 |
Chapter 14. | Core Performance Foods | 227 |
Part 4 | The Core Life Plan | |
Chapter 15. | The Core Challenge (Revisited) | 241 |
Chapter 16. | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | 247 |
Glossary of Terms | 255 | |
Additional Training Logs | 259 | |
About the Authors | 273 | |
Further Reading | 275 | |
Photo Credits | 276 | |
Index | 277 |