Sport Specific Speed Trainer Eric Dixon Hits Amazon Best Seller List With New Youth Fitness Book

April 21, 2012 - PRLog -- Eric Dixon, CEO and head coach of Tachyon Track Club and Tachyon Training Center, recently joined with a select group of the world’s leading health and fitness entrepreneurs to co-write the fitness book titled, The Definitive Guide to Youth Athletic Strength, Conditioning and Performance.  The book was released by CelebrityPress™ - a leading fitness and health book publisher.

The Definitive Guide to Youth Athletic Strength, Conditioning and Performance was released on Thursday, March 29th, 2012 and features top advice from health and fitness experts from across the country on the subjects of total body health, fitness and nutrition for children and youth. The authors will offer health and fitness tips for kids ranging from preschool age to college student athletes. Eric Dixon contributed a chapter titled “Speed Training Warm-ups.”

On the day of release, The Definitive Guide to Youth Athletic Strength, Conditioning and Performance reached best-seller status in two Amazon.com Exercise and Fitness categories - reaching #1 in both the “Injury Prevention” category and the “For Children” category.

Coach Dixon has competed and coached Track, Speed and Agility for over 30 years, concentrating mainly on sprinting events (60m-800m). In recent years, his educational focus has been on Sport Specific Speed Training and Sports/Strength Conditioning Training.  He’s trained youths and adults in Baseball, Football, Soccer, Gymnastic (vaults and floor), Tennis, Volleyball, Skeleton, Cross Country and Track. CEO and head coach of Tachyon Track Club and Tachyon Training Center, Coach Dixon has held the assistant coach positions at the High School and Collegiate levels. In his last 5 years of coaching he has coached several nationally ranked youth athletes; American Masters record holders, and World Masters record holders. Dixon has coached one athlete to a number 2 National Youth ranking in the 110 hurdles and coached Orange County’s, CA High School (sophomore) female 200m record holder and qualifier in the 100m and 200m; for the US Area Youth Olympic Selection Trials; Arlington, Texas, April 2010. He has also coached both the 2010 and 2011Orange County Championships 100m winners.

From CelebrityPress™:
The Celebrity Experts® in this book explore the subject of Fitness through conditioning the body for optimal results in young athletes. They look at the factors of mindset, nutrition and exercise – all of which play a part – from all angles and for all ages. They discuss the benefits of training, techniques, and the indelible influence of coaches on young minds. Such influence often stays with individuals for a lifetime.

Whether you have a toddler or a teen, these Celebrity Experts® have found success in teaching and coaching all age groups life-lessons, skills and mindset. Whether their students grow into professional athletes or responsible citizens, appropriate coaching and teaching methods are key to helping them mature into healthy, competitive individuals on and off the field.  Here is an opportunity for coaches and parents to read and adopt successful, tested and proven ideas in their daily roles.

After such a successful release, Eric Dixon will be recognized by The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

To order a copy of the book, please go to http://www.celebritypresspublishing.com/publications/the-...

For training articles, Warm-ups video clips, Speed training video clips, Weight training video clips or updates to this article please, contact Coach Dixon or go to: http://www.TachyonTC.net

More about Eric Dixon:

Coach Dixon also coaches the Athena track team; a National Masters Women’s Track club that currently holds five World and American records in the 4 x 200m, 4 x 400m and 4 x 800m relays. He also coached one Masters Sprinter Kathy Bergen (W72) to American and World Indoor/Outdoor records in the 60m, 100m and 200m. Kathy is the oldest woman to break the 15 second barrier in the 100 meters and to break 32 seconds in the 200 meters. She is also the first 70 year old woman to jump 1.30 meters in the high jump also a World record.

Coach Dixon competes for USA Track and Field in the Master’s Men’s Division sprints (60m to 400m) in National and International competition. He is a Sports Strength Conditioning Trainer, USA Track & Field (USATF) Level 2 Sprints/Hurdles, Relays Coach and USATF/IAAF (Youth Specialization) Level 2 Coach. Eric was one of 26 coaches in the United States accepted into the IAAF Level 5 Coaches Academy (Elite Coach) Program for Sprints and Hurdles. The academy was conducted at the Olympic Training Center Jan 1-7, 2012. He is certified to coach Elite Youth and Adult athletes for International level competition via USA Track & Field and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). In addition, he is a spokesperson for the USA Track & Fields Win With Integrity Program and director of USA Track & Fields Coaches Education Programs: Level 1 Schools for the Southern California area (where they coach the coaches).

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