The Men's Fitness Training Bible (book)

Core Performance – Endurance (book) – THE CORE training programme continues! Following the sensational success of the books “CORE Performance” and “The CORE Programme”, the German national football team’s fitness coach has now released another title. The Core Endurance Programme helps endurance athletes to make their training more efficient and prevent injuries. For anyone who feels they can no longer improve their performance in running, swimming or cycling due to a lack of time, a lack of motivation or their age, this book is just the thing. Mark Verstegen shows how to break through a plateau and achieve new performance goals. He presents a simple, holistic training programme that enables better results to be achieved despite shorter training sessions. Among other things, he emphasises a specific warm-up routine and attaches great importance to the correct execution of movements when running, swimming and cycling. The programme is complemented by a nutrition plan developed specifically for endurance athletes. This is the English edition of the book, which comprises a total of 238 pages.

Your Best Training – 150 tips from Germany’s most successful coach   When it comes to sporting performance, it is often small factors that ultimately determine victory or defeat, success or failure. It is not simply the athlete with the highest training volume who comes out on top, but the one who trains optimally – yet no more than necessary – who sleeps well and restfully, follows a performance-enhancing diet and is supplied with all the essential nutrients. It is not uncommon for minor adjustments to a training or nutrition plan to prevent dips in performance and compensate for physical weaknesses. Stuttgart-based professional trainer Wolfgang Unsöld is currently one of the most sought-after experts when it comes to performance-oriented strength and conditioning training. The experienced personal trainer and strength coach, who studied under legendary trainer Charles Poliquin, works with the largest number of elite athletes across Europe, including many footballers as well as UFC fighter Peter Sobotta, jiu-jitsu world champion Romy Korn and 100-metre sprinter Sven Knipphals. In this book, he brings together his best advice and strategies for maximum training success, including many innovative yet scientifically proven and tried-and-tested insider tips. In the three chapters on training, nutrition and sleep, Unsöld explains which small or large changes to daily routines, training regimens and diets can help readers maximise their sporting performance. He has compiled an indispensable collection of valuable tips for anyone who wants to achieve more from their training, from ambitious sportspeople and professional athletes to coaches. About the author Wolfgang Unsöld is the founder and Head Coach of the Your Personal Strength Institute (YPSI) in Stuttgart, which offers personal training and consultancy, as well as seminars and coaching qualifications for personal trainers and strength coaches. Over the past six years, Wolfgang has published numerous specialist articles and delivered seminars and lectures at an international level, including in England, Italy, the Dominican Republic and the USA. Thanks to outstanding ‘before and after’ results over the past nine years, Wolfgang is now known worldwide and in high demand. He has already worked with over 100 athletes across various disciplines, including Ju-Jitsu world champion Romy Korn, three-time kickboxing world champion Ibrahim Karakoc (TUR), a large number of athletes from the UFC and athletics, as well as national rugby and football teams from six different countries.Read an extract

My Battle with Cancer “Whilst I’d managed to keep my fear more or less in check up to that point, panic now took hold of me. What was it that made immediate admission to hospital necessary? Why the rush? Without even going home to fetch a few things, I set off for the hospital.” We know Tim Lobinger as a successful pole vaulter, a beaming winner and a model athlete with great charisma. A thoroughly healthy person, brimming with joie de vivre. This made the devastating diagnosis in the spring of 2017 all the more sudden: leukaemia. Since then, Tim has documented his daily life in the form of diary entries: he vividly describes the sudden intrusion of the illness into his life, the agony of the treatment, his concern for his young family, and the hope and anxiety surrounding his future. Tim’s account is moving in its candour – and it offers encouragement: it portrays a man who has taken up the fight against his illness in an admirable way. About the author During his active sporting career, Tim Lobinger, now 45, was a world-class track and field athlete. He was the first German pole vaulter to break the 6-metre mark. He is a 15-time German champion and has competed in the Olympic Games on several occasions. Following his sporting career, he worked as a strength and conditioning coach for the up-and-coming football club RB Leipzig. Today he lives with his wife and young son in Munich, where he runs a training studio for elite athletes.Read an extract