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Motor Learning and Development, Second Edition With Web Resource, provides a foundation for understanding how humans acquire and continue to hone their movement skills throughout the life span.

Leading authorities on goaltending bring you the definitive guide to stopping more pucks, winning more games, and lowering your goals against average.

Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource that will help practitioners gain a deep understanding of assessment in order to build trusting relationships and effective intervention plans that address the needs and goals of their clients.

Written by experts in the field, Advanced Exercise Physiology: Essential Concepts and Applications builds upon foundational topics and looks further into key physiological components to help advanced students gain a deeper level of understanding.

Expanded to address teaching across elementary, middle, and high school, this resource focuses on what it takes to become a master physical education teacher. It includes new research, examples, technology tips, sample task sheets, and assessment examples-all relevant to K-12.

NSCA's Essentials of Training Special Populations is an ideal preparatory guide for those seeking CSPS certification. The book is also a practical reference for exercise professionals who work with clients with various conditions and disorders.

The primary audiences for the book are hockey players and coaches at all levels of competition. Additionally, public hockey rinks that offer skill sessions (stick and puck) to the general public will benefit from the drills featured in this resource.

The best way to learn to play. Every essential skill-dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding-is simplified for new players and coaches alike. Ryan Goodson, world-renowned coach of basketball skill development, provides the basics and more than 100 of the best practice drills, teaching tips, and advice.

Applying Music in Exercise and Sport combines contemporary research, evidence-based practice, and specific recommendations to help exercise and sport professionals, researchers, coaches, students, and enthusiasts use music to enhance physical activity enjoyment, motivation, and performance.

Developed and written by canfitpro, this second edition of Foundations of Professional Personal Training contains essential information for building skills, increasing confidence, and preparing for the Personal Training Specialist (PTS) certification with canfitpro.

Playing Fair helps you create a learning environment in which your students can grow as problem solvers, decision makers, and team players. Theories and constructs for games help students learn skills, strategies, and concepts that apply both to other games and to other life situations.

Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration is a comprehensive textbook for interdisciplinary courses that focus on women and gender studies in sport. It provides readers with thought-provoking discussions about the history, evolution, and current role of women in sport.

Book/DVD package by renowned conditioning coach and former professional player Paul Pook provides exercises, drills and programs designed to improve the essential elements of the sport--strength, power, quickness, and agility. The DVD takes you into the gym to demonstrate the same exercises and drills used by the game's best.

This book is an excellent guide to teaching young people the essential skills needed to play football. The sixth edition places special emphasis on risk management and player safety.

A guide for female fitness enthusiasts who wish to reshape their bodies to feel great and accomplish their fitness goals. Provides readers with a 12-week training programme.

Featuring 40 exercises, 127 workouts, and a full 15-week program, The Modern Art of High Intensity Training offers a visually stunning presentation of all things high intensity. Along with covering the five principles of high intensity training, its eye-catching illustrations convey the strength, power, and beauty of the movements.

Provides information for dance teachers and students, as well as a reference for dance professionals. This book uses an investigative approach to the history of dance and its appreciation as an art form. It presents a chronological study since the origins that examines dancers and dance performance within a historical, social and cultural context.

Medical Conditions in the Athlete, Third Edition, equips health care providers with the information they need to develop a framework for decision making when working with injured and recovering athletes and active populations.

Useful for competitive athletes and their coaches, this is an advanced stretching book combining scientific background information with practical application, exercise progressions and programmes.

Authoritative, yet accessible, this guide provides the latest on science and technology from the world's top cycling coaches and researchers. Comprehensive and cutting edge, coverage includes the rider-machine interface, environmental stressors, health issues, the planning of training programs, racing techniques, and more.

Psychological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise, Fourth Edition, reflects the latest developments in the field of sport and exercise psychology and presents various applications in a range of physical activity settings.

With research from leading scientists, Sedentary Behavior and Health: Concepts, Assessments, and Interventions presents evidence on sedentary behavior, its apparent health risks, and suggestions on measuring and altering this behavior.

Learn to make healthy eating choices and overcome barriers that keep you from eating right. Healthy Eating Every Day offers a step-by-step, sustainable, behavior-changing approach to eating for improved health. This second edition has been updated throughout to align with current U.S. dietary guidelines and MyPlate tools.

The Get-Outside Guide to Winter Activities offers a wealth of ideas, activities, games, and tips for leaders of wintertime outdoor groups. The activities are safe, age appropriate, and easily modifiable for varying skill levels and designed for a range of locales.

Fueling Young Athletes stresses the importance of balanced daily nutrition as part of an overall eating plan for health, growth, development, and sport performance and shows how to implement that plan.

Dancer Wellness, created by the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, offers guidance on the foundations, mental components, and physical aspects of dancer wellness. Readers will learn concepts and strategies to develop as dancers and to create their own dancer wellness plan.

Presents the best coaching methods and practices for each season on the sport calendar - pre-season, in-season, post-season, and off-season - and offers specific actions, tools, and guidelines for coaches to create a cycle of continuous improvement for themselves, their athletes, and their teams.