Strength & Training for Young Athletes.
Strength Training for Young Athletes provides all the answers as the authoritative guide to strength development for 7- to 18-year-old athletes. World-renowned strength and conditioning experts William Kraemer and Steven Fleck present the latest facts on the effects of strength training on growth, development, and performance. The authors then make recommendations relative to starting age, choice of exercises, frequency of training, rate of progression, and philosophical aspects of program design.

The Core Workout by Joanne Elphinston and Paul Pook. 136 pages, with over 250 illustrations.
The definitive guide to swiss ball training for players, coaches and fitness professionals. Great for core stability and full body strength.The Core Workout manual presents an advanced and definitive guide to Swiss ball training with over 250 illustrations of Swiss ball exercises to help you develop core stability and maximise your power, speed and control potential. »

Speed, Agility and Quickness. Paperback, 248 pages.

Edited by three strength and conditioning experts, Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness is the definitive source of speed, agility, and quickness drills and exercises for athletes and coaches. Detailed descriptions and diagrams help you understand how to correctly perform more than 200 of the best possible drills for developing these three key components of athletic movement.

Explosive Lifting for Sports Book. Become a more powerful athlete when you include the snatch, clean, jerk, and their variations in your sports training program. It explains how to perform each lift safely with step-by-step instructions. Just as important, it outlines key technical adjustments and exercise options for athletes of various body types. Extensive photos enrich the book while the while the video (below) brings the action to life.

Explosive Lifting for Sports Video.

This video presents learning progressions for the snatch, clean, jerk, pulling assistance exercises, squats, and other lifts.

It explains how to perform each lift safely with step-by-step instructions to show you exactly how to develop the power you need to excel in your sport. Just as important, it outlines key technical adjustments and exercise options for athletes of various body types.

Functional Training for Sports. 208 pages.
Author Mike Boyle addresses movement, body positions, and abilities that are essential for success in competition. Yyou will improve your total athleticism, enhance your performance, and reduce injuries through exercise progressions that will spur your development potential for specific movement patterns you commonly use in your sport. Providing tests for you to determine where to start, the progressions focus on training for the torso, the upper body, and the lower body.

Functional Resistance Training Technques (cd rom)
Functional Resistance Training Techniques CD-ROM incorporates text screens, video, and audio and video stills to deliver practical content and superior instruction to fitness professionals. Not only will users be able to read about the exercises, but they will also be able to watch how the exercise is performed.

Jump Rope Training. Paperback, 176 pages.

Jump rope training expert, former Marine, and Olympic wrestler Buddy Lee was the official jump rope conditioning consultant to 25 U.S. Olympic teams from 1996 to 2000. In Jump Rope Training he shows you how to incorporate winning techniques in a portable, high-level workout program. You'll learn how to use one simple tool to improve speed, agility, balance, strength, power, and endurance

Sport Stretch. Paperback, 232 pages.
This new edition of Sport Stretch is a complete guide to flexibility for both weekend warriors and elite competitors.

The centrepieces of this comprehensive book are its illustrations and step-by-step guidelines for 311 different stretches. The stretches can be used individually or grouped with other stretches to form a personalized flexibility program

The Fitball
The Fitball is a high quality brand of Swiss ball (also known as stability ball, exercise ball, gym ball) and is an unrivalled tool for recruiting and developing your core muscles and full body strength. The ball's round surface 'activates' the core stabilisers and helps you develop the strength and stability you need to play safe and dynamic Rugby League. Available in 3 sizes:-

• 55cm - suitable for heights up to 5'6"
• 65cm - suitable for heights 5'7" to 6'2"
• 75cm - suitable for heights 6'3"+

Evasion Belts. Two players are fitted with webbing belts which are joined by a Velcro tab. Short-space multidirectional quickness drills are run, the object being for the attacker to break the connection of the belt from the defender.

Foot Speed Ladders. The Foot Speed Ladder is amongst the most popular and widely used quickness enhancement device on the market today . You have at your fingertips numerous selections of training drills that will enhance foot speed and quickness. The hard wearing plastic rungs spaced at 45 cm intervals form an obstacle course guaranteed to challenge foot control, balance and agility.
3 types available.

Grid Training Poles. A set of 12 white flexible poles with metal foot spikes which are driven into the turf. . The 6ft high poles are set out to allow dribbling and change of direction development, and the height ensures that players have run around them.

Power Speed Resistor.
Shoulder harness (padded webbing) with attachment for partner to generate resistance. The aim is to apply resistance without affecting the player's running mechanics and provoking an explosive knee and arm punching action, and explosive leg drive off the ground.