Double Play: Training and Nutrition Advice from the World's Experts in Baseball
Written to help athletes get in better shape to play the best baseball of their lives. Eating right, taking the right supplements, and engaging in a proper training regimen all contribute to overall baseball performance. Provides healthy eating tip, in general and also for game days, and advice on how athletes can safely gain or lose weight. Sports supplements to enhance baseball performance are discussed, as are restorative measures (whirlpools, massages, rehabilitation).
Book details
- Author
- Bob Alejo, Jose Antonio, William Campbell
- Imprint
- Basic Health Publications, Inc., an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 187
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Exercise
Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Nutrition - Topics
- athletic training · sports nutrition · dietary supplements · weight management · injury recovery · athletic performance
- ISBN-13
- 9781591201809 (Paperback)9781681627106 (Hardcover)
About the author
BOB ALEJO has nearly twenty-five years of experience in strength and conditioning for baseball and has served as strength and conditioning director at UC Santa Barbara since 2005.
Alejo was the conditioning coach for the Oakland Athletics from 1993 to 2001, and from 1984 to 1993 trained and supervised men’s and women’s teams at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a Level-I Weightlifting Federation coach, and a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
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