Stability, Sport and Performance Movement: great technique without injury
In every sport, there is an athlete who represents true technical excellence. We recognise them instinctively, as their efficiency is expressed through the beauty of their movement, and the effortlessness with which they seem to perform. This technical mastery requires a physical structure that supports the sport’s biomechanics, the neuromuscular coordination (to correctly sequence the movement), the psychological skills (to focus effort without unnecessary tension), and the physiology to sustain the movement pattern until the event is completed.
The building blocks of stability, mobility, symmetry, and balance provide the foundation for sporting movement development, and injury resistance. These elements work in combination to ensure that physical restrictions, imbalances, and inefficient muscle recruitment patterns do not hold back the athlete from meeting their own technical movement goals. The right muscles firing at the right time, and in the right sequence, can increase the chances of the athlete achieving their full physical potential.
Full of colour photographs and images to illustrate the techniques and theories involved, Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement, will help you to develop an understanding and respect for functional stability principles as they apply to sport, and will guide you through an approach that has been used with international level athletes in disciplines as diverse as swimming, badminton, gymnastics, karate, cycling, football, weight lifting, basketball, athletics, snow sports, golf, equestrian sports, and tennis.
Joanne Elphinston, is an Australian physiotherapist, performance consultant for elite sports and performing arts, and international lecturer on the subject of stability development and Swiss ball exercise. With Paul Pook, she co-wrote the best-selling The Core Workout, also published by Lotus Publishing and North Atlantic Books.
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