All the food and water in the world will not assist you to perform better if there is no physical effort.
This chapter deals with training – training the body to perform better, training your body to respond better to the demands of exertion and training your body to perform in a similar environment to where competition will be held.
This chapter also extensively deals with the process of ‘getting ready’ – warm-ups, stretching and cooling down.
It explains the benefits of each of those steps and how these come about. It also deals, in great detail, with stretching and explores a number of different stretching techniques.
The importance of a thorough cold down session is also explained