Delavier's Mixed Martial Arts Anatomy Author: Visit Amazon's Frederic Delavier Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1450463592 | Format: EPUB
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About the Author
Frédéric Delavier is a gifted artist with an exceptional knowledge of human anatomy. He studied morphology and anatomy for five years at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied dissection for three years at the Paris Faculté de Médecine.
The former editor in chief of the French magazine PowerMag, Delavier is currently a journalist for the French magazine Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to several other muscle publications, including Men's Health Germany. He is the author of the best-selling Strength Training Anatomy, Women’s Strength Training Anatomy, The Strength Training Anatomy Workout, Delavier's Core Training Anatomy, and Delavier's Stretching Anatomy.
Delavier won the French powerlifting title in 1988 and makes annual presentations on the sport applications of biomechanics at conferences in Switzerland. His teaching efforts have earned him the Grand Prix de Techniques et de Pédagogie Sportive. Delavier lives in Paris, France.
Michael Gundill has written 13 books on strength training, sport nutrition, and health, including coauthoring The Strength Training Anatomy Workout and The Strength Training Anatomy Workout II. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and he has written over 500 articles for bodybuilding and fitness magazines worldwide, including Iron Man and Dirty Dieting. In 1998 he won the Article of the Year Award at the Fourth Academy of Bodybuilding Fitness & Sports Awards in California.
Gundill started weightlifting in 1983 in order to improve his rowing performance. Most of his training years were spent completing specific lifting programs in his home. As he gained muscle and refined his program, he began to learn more about physiology, anatomy, and biomechanics and started studying those subjects in medical journals. Since 1995 he has been writing about his discoveries in various bodybuilding and fitness magazines worldwide.
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (October 3, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1450463592
- ISBN-13: 978-1450463591
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is a really great book overall. It contains a wealth of information regarding how to condition your body for MMA. I truly wish I would have had this book nine years ago the first time I stepped on the mat. When I first started training mma, jujitsu, and combatives years ago I poured through tons and tons of books and magazine articles trying to figure out how to strength train for fighting. The beauty of this book is that the information is spot on, all in one location and is what you will hear from other respected fight conditioning coaches/specialists. The info and exercises are all pretty legit, and are employed by most fighters at some point in there training.
This book is almost completely dedicated to strength, power and endurance training for MMA. There is a little bit of info regarding cardiovascular issues in MMA, but its really only a paragraph or two.
I must say, this book probably has more to offer someone that is unfamiliar with MMA/fight sport conditioning. If you've been training for years and have tons of books on fight conditioning and training methods, you really won't find anything new here. But if you're just starting your MMA training, this book will save you tons of time by giving you most of the info that you need to know about how to set up your program, what exercises to pick, what muscle groups to focus on, and how to incorporate your conditioning into your fight training schedule. In fact, if you're looking for a reasonably priced primer for fight conditioning, this is probably your best buy. Trust me, I've read a ton of them. This book gives you a lot of info without any fluff.
I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.
This is the second work by Delavier, and the third from the publisher, Human Kinetics, that I have received through Early Reviewers. This probably makes sense. I have been strength-training since I was thirteen, I studied taekwondo from fourteen through twenty-one, and I have been into CrossFit for almost five years. I suppose I am an ideal reviewer, although I see myself as an interested layman rather than an expert.
Much of what I said about Strength Training Anatomy Workout II, The (The Strength Training Anatomy Workout) applies here: the pictures are the best part of the book, illustrating muscles in a realistic style much like the Bodyworlds exhibit. Overall, the book seems solid, and I would consider it useful if I needed to design my own strength and conditioning program. I even learned a few things reading this book, which muscles are recruited in which moves, and the physiology of relaxing during a strike for maximum acceleration.
I was critical of Strength Training Anatomy Workout II, The (The Strength Training Anatomy Workout) because I felt that the book concentrated too heavily on hypertrophy. Seeing this book, I feel some of what I said is unfair. The other book is about bodybuilding, which has become the sport of building size and weight primarily, and strength only comes as a side-effect of those things.
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