All athletes and sports people need to harness speed and power at some point during their training and performance. The Complete Guide to Speed and Power Training is the definitive speed and power training book, covering the conditioning requirements of sports people and their coaches. Packed with drills, practices and background information, this book includes full-colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Speed training is crucial sporting currency for the athlete - unlocking its secrets and showing athletes how to speed up their sports performance is this book's biggest selling point. Authored by two masters of the coaching world, this is a serious coaching book written in an appealing and accessible way and crucially bringing the training and science fully up to date.

Author Biography

John Shepherd is a former Commonwealth athlete, and an established fitness, health and sports writer, author of The Complete Guide to Sports Training and Ultra-FIT: Your own personal trainer. He is Editor of Ultra-FIT magazine. Mike Antoniades is the founder and Coaching Director of Sport Dimensions, a Performance and Rehabilitation Centre for athletes and non-athletes, and the Running School. He has featured in, amongst others, Running Fitness, Athletics Weekly, The Times, the Mirror, the Daily Mail and Esquire.