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    Exo-Kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training
    Exo-Kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training
    Exo-Kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training
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    Exo-Kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training

    By Edward Herger

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    "After more than forty years coaching, I still found new information I will be using with my athletes." - Renowned coach John Thrush on Exo-Kinetics.

    Exo-kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training... This book will change your entire perspective on explosiveness in sports. We often look at great explosive athletes in action and see a blur of incredible speed. This book painlessly describes the science behind that blur of speed. It breaks down the explosive sequence into manageable parts which can be understood by athletes at any level. Finally, detailed performance and training resources will have you ready for immediate action.
    “Exo-kinetic” implies that energy is to be produced by the athlete and externalized by accelerating a sport implement to a high level of kinetic energy. This category applies to many sports including: Baseball, Softball, Football, Soccer, Golf, Track and Field, Wrestling, Judo and Weightlifting among others. Few understand the true science and nature of explosive bio-mechanics, and so few are performing and training at the pinnacle of their explosive abilities.
    Beyond simply describing explosiveness, this book provides a detailed description of thirty-six highly-effective exercises. It discusses important practical concepts for maximum performance and optimized training. Exo-kinetics is a great resource for any athlete or coach at any level of performance, age or experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward Herger
    Release dateJan 23, 2015
    ISBN9781311112132
    Exo-Kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training
    Author

    Edward Herger

    I am a lifelong athlete, an accomplished Olympic Weightlifter and a Mechanical Engineer by profession. With this background, I have the unique point of view where the human body becomes a complex, dynamic machine. The focus of this combination of course, is to identify how the best athletic performances can be created.

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      Exo-Kinetics - Edward Herger

      Introduction to Exo-kinetics

      Exo-kinetics: A Guide to Explosive Performance and Training… This book will change your entire perspective on explosiveness in sports. We often look at great explosive athletes in action and see a blur of incredible speed. This book will painlessly describe the science behind that blur of speed. It will break down the explosive sequence into manageable parts which can be understood by athletes at any level. Finally, detailed performance and training resources will have you ready for immediate action.

      Exo-kinetic implies that energy is to be produced by the athlete and externalized by accelerating a sport implement to a high level of kinetic energy. In this book I attempt to provide an answer to the question: What approaches to technique and training allow the athlete to launch a sports implement (or opponent) to the greatest possible result? The book is simple, easy to read, re-read and re-visit. I use basic and accurate principles and account for these principles at each level of detail.

      First, I will describe basic energy principles and a general model for all Exo-kinetic techniques. Next, several sports examples will be presented covering: throws, kicking, Judo throws, swinging motions and Olympic barbell weightlifting. Finally, I will outline advanced mechanics, and present many ideas on how to train, condition and optimize the mind and body to perform in Exo-kinetic sports.

      I am a lifelong athlete, an accomplished Olympic Weightlifter and a Mechanical Engineer by profession. With this background, I have the unique point of view where the human body becomes a complex, dynamic machine. The focus of this combination of course, is to identify how the most explosive performance can be created.

      Through this book, I hope to show that explosiveness is not a mysterious genetic trait of select individuals. Nor are the performance and training of explosive techniques violent, uncontrolled and hazardous to the body of the athlete. Instead, that true explosiveness is a feat of excellent timing and fluidity, a careful progression leading to a massive, singular and precise release of energy.

      Please enjoy!

      [Table of Contents]

      Chapter 1: Energy Principles

      Over years of studying both man-made machines and the human body itself as a machine, I

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