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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.

Pregnancy Fitness covers all physical and physiological aspects of pregnancy, birth, and recovery. Practical and accessible, it delivers stretching, strengthening, and functional exercises as well as sample workout programs to take you safely and confidently through each phase of pregnancy and postpartum fitness.

In Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment, you will learn about the assessment process, the tests available, how to administer them, and how to interpret the results and program accordingly. You will also learn how to assess the whole student by examining their social, affective, physical, and cognitive abilities.

From marketing and sales to budgets, staffing, and clientele issues, The Business of Personal Training walks you through the business-based side of personal training while teaching you the valuable skills you'll need to start, build, and grow your business.

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools helps teachers promote healthy and active lifestyles, not just in Physical Education (PE) classes but throughout the day.

Your Workout PERFECTED separates fact from fiction to improve fitness, function and performance, fat loss, and physique. Comprehensive and practical, all exercises and workout programs are accompanied by step-by-step instructions, training advice, safety considerations, and variations.

Thoroughly updated, Contemporary Sport Management, Sixth Edition, offers a complete and contemporary overview of the field. It addresses the professional component topical areas that must be mastered for COSMA accreditation, and it comes with an array of ancillaries that make instruction organized and easy.

Uses a case-study approach to teach students theories of organisation and administration, and to apply them to real-world situations in the profession of athletics training.

The fourth edition of Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides advanced psychology students with a thorough examination and critical analysis of the current research in sport and exercise psychology.

Applied Sport Mechanics, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, helps undergraduate students understand how the fundamental laws of human movement affect athletes' performances. Foundational principles of kinetics, kinematics, and sports technique are clearly presented and then explored through a variety of applied scenarios.

Athletic Taping, Bracing, and Casting features step-by-step instructions for the most common and frequently applied taping, bracing, and casting procedures in clinical practice.

Dynamic Human Anatomy, Second Edition, connects biomechanical movement with specific sports movements to provide an understanding of the body's anatomical structure and function.

Orthopedic Joint Mobilization and Manipulation is a guide to clinical applications that will help eliminate pain and re-establish normal joint motion for patients experiencing various musculoskeletal ailments. Sixty techniques are demonstrated in video within the companion web study guide.

Beginning Hip-Hop Dance provides dance students and general education students a strong foundation in the fundamentals of hip-hop--its techniques, styles, aesthetics, history, significant works, and artists. The text comes with a web resource of 56 video clips to aid in practicing techniques.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children and Adolescents compiles the latest evidence-based research on exercise stress testing to provide guidance for those testing young patients.

Physical Education for Children With Moderate to Severe Disabilities offers a comprehensive view of the inclusion of students with disabilities, including instruction, assessment, collaborative practices, communication protocols, and skill analysis. The text is relevant for all teaching environments and includes sample lesson plans aligned with grade-level outcomes.

Fitness for Life: Middle School, Second Edition, offers new material and resources, including a new interactive web textbook for students and online bundle for teachers. With this text you will be able to integrate fitness concepts into core curricula, engage students in using technology in their healthy lifestyle planning, and address all current

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction offers evidence-based, teacher-tested methods for teaching physical education. A companion web resource houses printable content maps and other supplemental materials to enhance your teaching.

Choreography has been thoroughly updated to help students develop their skills in each step of the choreographic experience, from finding an idea to staging the performance. The text comes with a new web resource that offers video clips and supplemental learning activities.

With the fifth edition of FitnessGram Administration Manual: The Journey to MyHealthyZone, K-12 teachers can conduct, record, interpret, and share results for numerous health-related fitness assessments. They can create personalized reports for students and document outcomes in the five components of health-related fitness.

Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education offers more than 240 lesson plans that are standards-based and ready-to-use. These innovative plans are great for fostering physical literacy in your students. The book also provides guidance on how to plan effective lessons that align with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcom

Complete Guide to Foam Rolling combines the latest scientific research with step-by-step instructions for the most effective foam rolling techniques for muscle preparation and recovery.