Thanks to everyone who spent their time reviewing versions of this book, including Prof. Craig Sharp, Dr Greg Wilson, Sara Horne, Paul Wytch, Dave Coleman, Dr. Dale Cannavan and Dr Justin Keogh. I would also like to thank everyone at Bloomsbury for their hard work, taking this third edition to publication. Finally, I’d like to thank the students, coaches and athletes who have been a constant source of inspiration for me to write this book, and whose inquisitive minds provoked many of the questions that I have sought to answer.
Anthony Blazevich, November 2016
PICTURE CREDITS
Photograph on page here © iStockphoto/Tor Lindqvist; photographs on pages here, here, here, here, here, here and here © Empics/PA Photos; photographs on pages here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here © Getty Images; photographs on pages here and here reproduced by kind permission of Henk Kraaijenhof; antelope photograph on here © iStockphoto/Jane Norton; cheetah photograph on here © iStockphoto/Mark Wilson; photograph on here © Mark Shearman, reproduced by kind permission of Mark Shearman and Steve Backley; photographs on page here reproduced by kind permission of Andrew Walshe; photograph on here © Alex Hazle/Axel Design & Photo.
Line art and diagrams by Dave Saunders © Bloomsbury Publishing
All other photographs and illustrations © Anthony Blazevich.