Training Fencing

Building on the book "Learning Fencing", this book explains how to train for the techniques and tactics in the sport of fencing and shows why fencers must improve their endurance, strength, and speed.Young fencers learn to go beyond practice bouts and enrich their training with exercises that may seem to have nothing at all to do with fencing. They discover how important it is to warm up before training and competitions and learn why an athlete gets stiff muscles. The book also includes suggestions about what young athletes can do on their own to improve their skills and to monitor and evaluate their progress.With the help of this book, young fencers learn to manage their own development and to take responsibility for their own behavior

About the author

Katrin Barth, geboren 1966, ist ausgebildete Grundschullehrerin mit langjähriger Berufserfahrung in diesem Altersbereich.

Prof. Dr. Berndt Barth war langjähriger Hochschullehrer für Trainingswissenschaft an der DHfK in Leipzig und ist Autor zahlreicher Artikel und Bücher zum Nachwuchs- und Spitzensport.
Er ist Vorstandsmitglied und Honorarlehrkraft an der Trainerakademie Köln des DOSB.

Summary

This guide shows how to train for technique and tactics in the sport of fencing and shows why fencers must improve their endurance, strength, and speed. Young fencers learn to go beyond practice bouts and enrich their training with exercises that may seem to have nothing at all to do with fencing.

Product details

• Authors: Berndt Barth, Katrin Barth
• Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
• Original title: Ich trainiere Fechten
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2015
• EAN: 9781841260969
• ISBN: 978-1-84126-096-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 343 g
• Illustrations: 21 Farbfotos, 249 Farbabb.
• Series: Ich lerne, ich trainiere...; Ich lerne, ich trainiere...
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Fechten, Verstehen, Spiel, Endurance, Techniques, Children, Tactics, Speed, Strength, fencing, Claudia Bokel, practice bouts