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Sports Injuries Guidebook, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise reference for more than 130 common sports injuries. Coverage includes common causes, explanation of symptoms, anatomical illustrations, and treatment options.

"Revised edition of Guiding Yoga's Light: Lessons for Yoga Teachers, Second Edition, published in 2008 by Human Kinetics." Motivational Yoga presents 100 ready-to-use lesson plans to help save yoga teachers preparation time and understand how to bring key concepts and philosophies into practice.

Everyone Can!: Skill Development and Assessment in Elementary Physical Education is an elementary PE package based on the Achievement-Based Curriculum model. It addresses developmental needs of all students. The text/Web package has instructional activities and 313 games and offers a systematic way to foster learning and meet national standards.

Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity presents information on sociology of sport to prepare readers for advanced study or practice in the field. This text explores the impact of sport in society and examines careers in sport and physical activity.

Deviance and Social Control in Sport challenges preconceived understandings regarding the relationship of deviance and sport and offers a conceptual framework for future work in a variety of sociological subfields.

Presents an approach that grounds students in the fundamentals and takes the fear out of creativity. This title focuses on the process of choreography and how to be creative. It also introduces students to the elements of movement, helping them to analyze the separate elements before they learn to synthesize them.

Career Development in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism: A Positioning Approach outlines a step-by-step plan for career development based on the technique of positioning. This text will help students decide on the job they want and then begin building the skills, experiences, and professional connections they need in order to get the job.

From both an individual and a societal perspective, Dimensions of Leisure for Life guides students through a study of leisure as a multidisciplinary field. The book uses social sciences methods and current research, with examples from psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology, to study leisure behavior.

Anger Management in Sport provides strategies and interventions for overcoming excessive anger and aggression in athletes. The text challenges long-held assumptions and points the way to further research and discussion on this important topic.

Provides high school and club coaches with action steps for the care and prevention of more than 110 sport-related injuries and illnesses. With Sport First Aid, you and your coaching staff will be prepared to make critical decisions and respond appropriately when faced with medical emergencies.

With detailed coverage of the equipment in the game along with breaking down the shot to its most basic elements from approach, arm swing, release and follow through, the author helps bowlers understand the mental side of the game and how making successful adjustments to their approach to the game can make a significant impact on the score sheet.

Provides detailed, progressive instruction with accompanying full colour photographs for every shot, from putts, chip shots, and pitch shots to shots from the fairway, off the tee, bunker and rough and bad lies.

Traditionally the focus of triathlon is on volume, intensity and training periodization which consists typically of doing particular workouts during the months, weeks and days leading up to a race. But what if triathletes could improve performance without logging extra distance on the road or in the water? This book shows you how.

Pacing: Individual Strategies for Optimal Performance examines the science, strategies, and application of pacing in sports. Coaches, athletes, and students of sport will learn to assess, develop, and implement effective pacing strategies for 13 sports, including running, cycling, triathlon, soccer, and basketball.

This text prepares students to navigate their dance programs and prepare for a various careers. It orients students to dance as an academic discipline, broadens their understanding of dance, establishes solid approaches to studying dance, and connects dance on campus to their previous training.

4:09:43, 2013 Boston Marathon, two bombs explode. This title presents a compilation of accounts provided by those taking part. It focuses on the accounts of 75 runners, collected through social media: blogs posted online, stories offered on Facebook and e-mails sent to the author.

Written by leading figures in the social sciences, the book synthesizes theory and research in social science and sport and promotes development of and through sport.

Successful coaches know the importance of drills. They form the cornerstone of most practices and are essential in developing player skills and team execution. This is a collection of more than 100 of the very best team drills for young players and their coaches. It is developed specifically for players aged 6 to 18.

Race and ethnicity have a significant impact on leisure behaviour and activity choices. This book brings together 28 world-renowned researchers to provide a comprehensive review and unified perspective on leisure in relation to five minority populations within the United States and Canada.

Planning a curriculum that includes all students, including those with ASD can be a challenging task but well worth the effort needed to design appropriate instructional activities. This book identifies strategies that highlight students' skills, and abilities through collaborative practices, environmental design and assistive technologies.

Whether running a three-team league, a huge tournament, or anything in between, this book shows you how to access more than 2,700 web-based Microsoft Word templates for use as frameworks for virtually any tournament.

This text makes the principles and theories of fitness and personal training accessible for all readers, helping them understand how the body works and responds to exercise and how to create exercise programs that help clients accomplish their fitness goals.

Defines the intersection of exercise science and public health. This title offers an introduction to the concepts of public health and exercise science, the techniques used to measure physical activity and the health effects of exercise and physical activity. It also includes examples of successful programmes from various settings.

Adapted Physical Education National Standards, Third Edition, covers the latest Adapted Physical Education National Standards (APENS), offering current knowledge and best practices for teaching adapted PE. It comes with a new web study guide.

Helps you to understand the details of proper exercise technique, weight loads and reps. This guide also helps you gain insight on how to eat smart to maximize results and follow the step-by-step directions to calculate safe training loads, and design an overall training programme that fits your interests and training preferences.

Research Methods and Design in Sport Management, Second Edition, explains research design, implementation, and assessment criteria with a focus on procedures unique to the discipline of sport management.

Strength Training for Basketball will help you create a basketball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position--guard, forward, or center--develop strength and successfully transfer that strength to the basketball court.

Helps students learn to appreciate the consequences of external forces, how the body generates internal forces to maintain position, and how forces create movement in physical activities. This title also offers a link to an accompanying web resource that includes all of the problems from the book, separated by chapter, and 10 sample problems.

An all-in-one resource that synthesizes the research, theory, and practice on comprehensive school physical activity programs. Also delves into assessment, evaluation, advocacy, policy, partnerships, technology, and more. Suitable for K-12 teachers, PETE faculty and students, and researchers.

Sports Massage for Injury Care explains why manual therapy is so valuable in treating musculoskeletal injuries. It presents injury-specific protocols for treating and preventing recurrence of 20 of the most common neuromuscular injuries seen in athletes.