Böcker utgivna av Human Kinetics Publishers

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.

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.

Mastering the skills in the field, on the mound, and at the plate has never been easier. Steps to Success allows you to learn at your own pace, providing detailed instruction, expert advice, practice drills, and self-assessments to gauge progress. A new entry in the best-selling sport instruction series, this highly visual, easy-to-use guide is ideal for novice and intermediate players and coaches alike.

Developmental Physical Education for All Children, Fifth Edition, will help you deliver developmentally appropriate physical education for kids in pre-K through grade 5. Lessons for all levels are based on the new national standards, and a host of ancillaries supplement the learning.

Sport Therapy for the Shoulder contains best practices and evidence-based guidelines for assessing and treating patients' shoulder injuries for re-entry into sport.

Written by a sport psychology consultant and an athletic trainer, Psychology of Sport Injury provides a thorough explanation of the elements and effects of sport injuries along with up-to-date research and insights for practical application.

Moving With Words & Actions will help you develop physical literacy and language literacy in your preschool and primary-grade students. The text offers more than 70 lesson plans that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. The plans use an interdisciplinary approach and are adaptable for various settings.

Bigger Faster Stronger (BFS) remains the premier training program for high school and college athletes. The third edition of the Bigger Faster Stronger book includes the latest research; training protocols for strength, speed, power, flexibility, balance, and agility; and new content on balance, safety, and plyometrics.

Plyometric Anatomy presents advanced drills and a variety of progressions that will help you maximize strength, power, speed, and agility. Highly detailed anatomical art illustrates muscle activation and interaction for each drill.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Before athletes can become strong and powerful, they need to master the movement skills required in sport. Athletic Movement Skills covers the underlying science and offers prescriptive advice on bridging the gap between scientist and practitioner so coaches and athletes can work together to achieve dominance.