Health & Fitness for Windsurfing

Book excerpt: Health & Fitness for Windsurfing 3rd Edition provides ready-made periodized strength and conditioning programs for windsurfers. It guides you through two methodical and scientifically based 52-week training programs as well as a 15-week intensive program. Health & Fitness for Windsurfing 3rd Edition is designed to meet the needs of sailors who are new to or experienced in strength training. Additionally this book includes windsurfing articles, exercise descriptions, information about preventing injuries in windsurfing and recommendations regarding stretching, nutrition, warm-up and recovery and an exclusive interview with professional windsurfer Víctor Fernández López.The training programs will effectively improve your muscular strength, power and endurance as well as cardiovascular fitness with the purpose to improve sailing perfomance and decrease the risk of windsurfing injury. Each training program has an easy-to-use layout for recording workout details to effectively track your progress."Your success in training is important for me, and I am proud to have communication with my readers to assist them towards greater windsurfing health and fitness" Henrik Beyer.