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**FACTS AND FALLACIES OF FITNESS (Mel C Siff 2000 ) 300 sivua
Sisältö :
INTRODUCTION
ALL THOSE FALLACIES
A Compendium of Popular Fitness Fallacies
Before You Go Any Further
- A DISSECTION GUIDE
Rules of Exercise?
How to Distinguish Fact from Fallacy
Techniques of Persuasion
- DISSECTING THE EXERCISES
Our First Dissection
Fallacies Among General Fundamentals
Fallacies of Cardiovascular and Aerobics Fundamentals
Strength Fallacies
Postural Fallacies
- SOME MORE DISSECTIONS
Fallacies of Warming Up and Stretching
Fallacies of General Popular Exercises
Fallacies of Aerobics Classes
Fallacies of Resistance Exercise
Fallacies of Equipment and Apparel
Fallacies of Special Population Training
- FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
What is Fitness?
Fitness in Sport
Are the Fit Healthier?
Fat and Fit?
Is Exercise Testing Necessary?
What Research does not Tell You
Pain and Gain
What is Stability?
The Specificity of Movement Patterns
Is Lactic Acid a Toxin?
Spinal Terminology
What is Fatigue?
Is Muscle Fibre Typing Valuable?
Types of Muscle Contraction
- CARDIOVASCULAR ISSUES
Matters of the Heart
An Irregular Heart may be Healthier
Oxygen Debt?
Heart Rate and Cardiovascular Fitness
How Strenuous is that Exercise?
The Heart is not just a Pump
- BIOMECHANICAL ISSUES
Myths of Antagonistic Muscles
A Flat Back?
Back Facts and Figures
Back Pain and the Mind
Strength and Connective Tissue
Back Pain and Evolution
Foot Mechanics and Shoes
The Effect of Head Position on Strength
What is Hyperextension?
The Dogma of Isokinetics
Strength Training and Muscle Tension
What Newton really Said
Correct Pelvic Tilt?
Safe Lifting
Correct Lumbar Lifting Posture?
Lifting Revisited
Weight Training and the Back
Lumbar Pelvic Rhythm
Inflexibility or Spurious Muscle Tension?
Triphasic Muscle Action
Diaphragm and Stabilising
Correct Sitting Posture?
- AEROBICS ISSUES
What is Aerobics Really?
Is Low Impact Safer?
Dumbbells in Aerobics Classes
Plyometrics in Aerobics ?
Heart Rate in Low or High Impact Aerobics
Elastic Band Aid for Aerobics
Structural Exercises?
Callanetics?
PNF Aqua-Exercise
Toe-Heel Doctrine in Aerobics
Mind-Body Aerobics
- FLEXIBILITY ISSUES
Is Flexibility Training Necessary?
Active, Passive and Other Stretches
Do You need a Warmup?
Facts on Warming Up
- GENERAL TRAINING ISSUES
Progressive Overload?
Structural vs Functional Training
The Bodybuilding Paradigm
Is Symmetric Training advisable?
Autoregulating Progressive Resistance Exercise
Hybrid Training - A Strength Training Innovation
Loadless Training
Using PNF in Training
What is Periodisation?
Comparison of Training Regimes
Design of Sports Training Programmes
Gorilla Power
- STRENGTH AND RESISTANCE ISSUES
Scientific Resistance Training in Sport
Resistance Training for Different Purposes
Bigger, Faster, Stronger?
Speed-Strength Training
Eccentrics and Muscle Soreness
Strength and Size
Closed vs Open Chain Exercise
Slow Training and No Momentum?
Strength and Gender
Peripheral Heart Action
Competitive Lifting for Juveniles?
Muscle Hypertrophy Formulae?
The Hardgainer
Muscle Pain for Gain?
- SAFETY ISSUES
Exercise Readiness Questionnaire
Dangerous Exercises: Fact or Fiction?
Safety Mania
Safety in Exercise
Contraindicated Exercise May Protect
Muscles may not Protect
Are Ballistics Dangerous?
Types of Overtraining
Personal Liability
Safety in the Health Club
Equipment Safety
- PERSONAL TRAINING ISSUES
The Personal Trainer
Becoming a Successful Personal Trainer
Instructions and Performance
The Art of Public Speaking
Fitness Guru Kit
Skinfold Champions
Bodybuilding Anorexia
Rules of Treatment
- SPECIFIC EXERCISE ISSUES
Abominable Abdominals
Ab Mania
Abdominal and Trunk Exercise
Beyond Bent Knee Situps
Straight Leg Situps
Leg Raises - Sane or Insane?
Why Situp Testing?
Islated Muscle Testing?
Is there a Bicep Curl?
Special Rotator Cuff Exercises?
All Squats the Same?
- EQUIPMENT ISSUES
Training Machines
Safety and Machine Training
Machine Testing?
Equipment Purchase Questionnaire
Passive Exercise Systems
Lifting, Belts and Breathing
Shoes and Safety
Ball Balance Training
- PLYOMETRICS ISSUES
What is Plyometrics?
Understanding Plyometrics
Powermetrics, Not Plyometrics!
Non Impact Plyometrics
Asymmetric Plyometrics
Plyometrics and the Brain - The Missing Dimension
- BRAIN AND MIND ISSUES
The Brain-Mind Link
Neural Changes with Training
Mental Preparation in Sport
The Mind and Body Shaping
The Endorphin Story
Auto-Mind Training
- HEALTH ISSUES
Exercise and Stress
AIDS Tales
Losing Weight?
Spot Reduction Revisited
Slimming with High Carbohydrate Diets
Bouncing for Life?
X-Rays and Your Health
The Greatest Medical Challenge?
- NUTRITION AND DRUG ISSUES
The Cholesterol Debate
Butter or Margarine?
Fat Substitutes
Fad Diets
Food Consumption to Test Fitness?
Low Fat Dairy Substitutes?
Slim Before Breakfast
Sugar for Energy?
Calorie Counting
Health Watch: Paracetamol, IUD, Inderal and Other
Left Handed Food
Nutrition for Performance
Synchronised Sports Nutrition
The Steroid Game
Steroids for Endurance?
The Farce of Steroid Testing
Food and Behaviour
Eat Right For Your Blood Type
The Creatine Story
- EASTERN TRAINING ISSUES
The Chinese System of Quantal Training
Chinese Secrets
Adaptogens and Other New Ideas
Kinaesthetic Manipulation
Sports Restoration and Massage
CONCLUSION
SOURCES OF INFORMATION**
