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Beschreibung
Develop your fitness, strength and endurance, and improve your flexibility and agility, to deliver your best consistently on the race course with this practical guide. Whether you are a club sailor or an Olympic hopeful you will learn the areas you should concentrate on for your type of sailing, be it hiking, trapezing or board sports. There are also specific suggestions for young athletes, master sailors and old salts. Discover over 100 exercises (many using minimal equipment) designed to help performance in specific areas, demonstrated in the book by top British Sailing Team sailors Micky Beckett and Matilda Nicholls with over 160 photos and access to 8 videos by the author. You will learn how to: - Get the most out of your training - Plan it to fit in with your competition schedule - Recover quickly to do it all again! - Avoid injury and preserve your lower back - Minimise the effect of travel and other lifestyle issues Written by a world champion sailor, Olympic medallist and coach to multiple gold medallists, you can benefit from his knowledge of what drives better sailing, smarter training and performance under pressure. Don't just sail, sail to win.
Develop your fitness, strength and endurance, and improve your flexibility and agility, to deliver your best consistently on the race course with this practical guide. Whether you are a club sailor or an Olympic hopeful you will learn the areas you should concentrate on for your type of sailing, be it hiking, trapezing or board sports. There are also specific suggestions for young athletes, master sailors and old salts. Discover over 100 exercises (many using minimal equipment) designed to help performance in specific areas, demonstrated in the book by top British Sailing Team sailors Micky Beckett and Matilda Nicholls with over 160 photos and access to 8 videos by the author. You will learn how to: - Get the most out of your training - Plan it to fit in with your competition schedule - Recover quickly to do it all again! - Avoid injury and preserve your lower back - Minimise the effect of travel and other lifestyle issues Written by a world champion sailor, Olympic medallist and coach to multiple gold medallists, you can benefit from his knowledge of what drives better sailing, smarter training and performance under pressure. Don't just sail, sail to win.
Über den Autor

Michael Blackburn is a world champion sailor, Olympic medallist and coach to multiple gold medallists who has spent his career exploring what drives better sailing, smarter training and performance under pressure. Alongside his racing career, he pursued formal research into sailing performance, completing an Honours project on Laser (now ILCA) hiking before earning a PhD examining thought styles and endurance under pressure. He is currently Technical Director of the Australian Sailing Team.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Sport
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Wassersport& Segeln
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781917801034
ISBN-10: 1917801033
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blackburn, Michael
Hersteller: Fernhurst Books Limited
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 239 x 191 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Blackburn
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2026
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 138274338

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