Health & Fitness for Windsurfing provides ready-made periodized strength and conditioning programs for windsurfers. It guides you through two methodical and scientifically based 52-week training programs as well as a 15-week intensive program. Additionally this book includes exercise descriptions, information about preventing injuries in windsurfing and recommendations regarding stretching, nutrition, warm-up and recovery. The training programs will effectively improve your muscular strength, power and endurance as well as cardiovascular fitness. Each training program has an easy-to-use layout for recording workout details to effectively track your progress. I hope this book will motivate you to train and the results will make your windsurfing even more fun. Your success is important to me and I look forward hearing from you and assisting you along the way. I hope to see you in the gym and on the water'. Henrik Beyer About the Author: A passionate windsurfer and with over 20 years of experience in strength training, Henrik Beyer has designed these training programs to assist windsurfers towards greater health and fitness. He has a Masters degree in health and has conducted research studies on health and lifestyle issues. Henrik has worked in the area of physical activity at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health and with health promotion at W.H.O.