Gymnastics: Skills - Techniques - Training

By Lloyd Readhead

Book Overview

Contents include: The rules and regulations that govern the sport and the roles and responsibilities of gymnasts, coaches and officials during an event.The technical skills in women's gymnastics vaulting, asymmetric bars, balance beam and floor exercises] and men's gymnastics floor exercises, pommel horse, rings, vaulting, parallel bars and horizontal bar].Detailed 'key points' for the gymnstic skills and elements covered.The content and structure of the training regimes, together with the methods and techniques used to teach and perform some important core skills and a range of more advanced skills.The ways in which coaches develop the high levels of skill and physical fitness required by gymnasts.Psychology, nutriiton, preventing under-performance, and injury prevention and treatment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847972470
• ISBN13: 9781847972477
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6