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ABCA Coach of the Year Tom O'Connell presents over 100 of the best practice games ever created. The skill-building competitions cover fielding, pitching, catching, and hitting; they also prepare players for every situation from bunt defense to rundowns. With full practice plans based on the games included, it's an ideal resource for coaches.

In Water Skiing and Wakeboarding, water skiing champion Ben Favret provides instruction for everything from the essential skills of each event to the pros' training secrets. This full-color book is jam-packed with action photos showing techniques and learning progressions for mastering each maneuver on the water.

With over 100 exercises partnered with photo demonstrations, Fundamental Weight Training gives you the basic knowledge and programs to start your weight training routine. Whether you're working out at the gym or at home, this guide will help you develop a sound strength training program.

Sport Club Management provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary for running a sport club like a business.

Having a set of standards is critical. But standards alone do not ensure success. That's where Implementing the National Dance Education Standards comes in. This book can help you apply the standards to motivate students through engaging experiences. Each chapter includes overviews and summaries to help you focus on the key points.

Add more fun, excitement, and variety to your physical education class or youth program with big activity balls. This book is ideal for anyone who works with kids and provides them with a variety of cooperative games, water games, and modified classic games.

Shows how to improve each phase of your shot, from stance to follow-through; increase the accuracy of your hook; incorporate the free arm swing for smoother mechanics; generate more power behind your shot to create greater pin action; analyze lane conditions and adjust your game accordingly; and develop strategies for achieving your personal best.

Introduces group dynamics theory and research as it applies to recreation and leisure settings. This book explains the concept of the conscious group, its nature and components and applies experiential learning theory to working with these groups.

A guide to safety and lawsuit prevention. It offers CD-ROM that contains tips and strategies for lawsuit prevention, environment and safety checklists, documentation strategies and sample forms.

Offers professors teaching general education health courses the option to customise their student textbooks to match their syllabi. This title covers the essential personal health topics for the general student population.

Offers activities instructors can use to assist outdoor leaders and group facilitators in making the connections between adventure theory and practice. This book features lesson plans that employ experimental education strategies for presenting the theory underlying the technical and facilitation skills required in leading adventure experiences.

The text is a series of independent but related chapters authored by the foremost researchers of insulin resistance, and it presents a wealth of information to assist the biomedical and research community.

Drawing on the contributions of a diverse group of international experts and a multidisciplinary approach, this reference challenges professionals, researchers, and students to implement new solutions and further their research in youth inactivity.

Offers readers with the same conditioning concepts and programming used by elite triathletes. This book helps readers to learn techniques such as using weight training, plyometrics and core development to accelerate skill development in various phases of swimming, running and cycling.

Chicken and Noodle Games will help you offer a variety of games that will keep everyone participating. Provide inclusive and nontraditional games in which no player starts with an advantage, adapt games to various settings and occasions, and increase players' physical activity.

Cutting-edge info on how exercise modulates cellular physiology, which can be used to develop better training regimens and injury- prevention & rehabilitation programs, and to improve performance. Recent advances in molecular techniques have enabled researchers to address the mechanisms involved on a subcellular & molecular level.

Featuring contributions from some of the top baseball coaches in America, this book includes detailed coverage of offensive, pitching and defensive tactics to give the reader an insider's guide to beating their opponents.

Aimed at strength training enthusiasts and fitness professionals, this illustrated book has 65 exercises, and provides the proper alignment, positioning and lifting techniques. The combination of anatomical illustration and technical guidance allows readers to focus on specific muscles using correct technique.

A reference book for researchers in human movement sciences and related fields; textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate level courses

As obesity continues to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world, this reference provides practitioners with insight into integrating physical activity, nutrition, psychology, and medicine to help obese patients manage their weight.

This is a treatment of how individual and team emotions affect athletic performance. It provides students with an understanding of emotional patterns such as anxiety, anger and joy, as well as their impact on individual and team performance.

Features insight, advice, and strategies of some of the successful coaches that they've used to field championship-winning teams season after season. This book covers various aspects of the game - coaching principles, program building, player motivation, practice sessions, individual skills, team tactics, and offensive and defensive play-calling.

Aims to provide new ideas for sports days, circuit training and keeping children active in class - even with groups as large as 75 children.

Conditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program.

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive text available for current and future fitness professionals who want to design and implement effective, safe, and fun physical activity programs for older adults with diverse functional capabilities.

Challenge and encourage the participants in your water fitness classes with over 150 ready-to-use lesson plans based on sound scientific principles and the concept of periodization.

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education offers 64 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable, and it addresses all the skills in the National Health Education Standards.

Offers an introduction to the field that focuses on motor behaviour that can be observed directly as well as the many factors that affect the quality of these performances and the ease with which they can be learned. It frames the important issues, theories, people and research from the field in a reader-friendly way.