Böcker utgivna av Human Kinetics Publishers

Manchester United's Tony Strudwick leads an all-star panel in providing the most current research on soccer. Soccer Science features the world's leading experts in soccer history, biomechanics, physiology, psychology, skill acquisition, coaching, tactical approaches, and performance and match analysis.

This step-by-step guide for beginning and intermediate curlers covers throws, brushing, delivery, basic shots, and ice reading. The book includes 40 drills featuring a self-scoring component that allows curlers to chart progress and accelerate improvement in their skill development.

Prepare for a successful season with this easy-to-follow guide that walks you through the essential drills and knowledge every inexperienced youth basketball coach needs. Develop your team's skills in practice and run effective plays to make the season rewarding and fun for you and your team.

Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education offers more than 60 large-group warm-up activities, character-building activities, and team-building challenges. The book, which comes with a web resource, will help you prepare students for success in college and beyond.

Physical Literacy on the Move is a practical resource to help you guide students toward physical literacy. The book's 120 games and activities are suitable for a variety of settings, are broken into four progressive levels, and are adaptable to optimize both the instruction and the fun.

Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes provides practitioners with the information needed in order to oversee an athlete monitoring system and to collect, analyze, and interpret monitoring data so that training programs can be adjusted to achieve optimal athlete preparation and performance.

Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle is a comprehensive and practical guide for identifying and incorporating yoga movements into a new or existing routine. This detailed resource offers descriptions and images of awareness exercises and proven poses as well as providing techniques to help you create a personalized practice for better health and performance.

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to give students a compelling grasp of the evolution of American sporting practices.

The ultimate yoga resource for athletes offers instruction on improving strength, flexibility, and balance in any sport or activity. Packed with full-color photos, the book demonstrates poses, breathing, and guided visualization to elevate sport performance.

SHAPE America's Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education provides more than 160 lesson plans that will help your students meet the National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes. Learn to shape your own plans and put your students on the path to physical literacy.

This book is primarily aimed at swim coaches at the age-group, high school, small college, and masters levels. Secondary audiences are swimmers at these levels and multisport athletes, including triathletes.

NSCA's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning is the ideal preparatory guide for those seeking TSAC-F certification. The book is also a great reference for fitness trainers who work with tactical populations such as military, law enforcement, and fire and rescue personnel.

Therapeutic Modalities for Musculoskeletal Injuries, Fourth Edition With Online Video, offers comprehensive coverage of therapeutic interventions for musculoskeletal injuries, providing the tools for optimal decision making for safe and effective use of each treatment method.

Beginning Jazz Dance provides students with the context and the basic instruction they need in order to learn beginning jazz dance techniques and become more knowledgeable dancers. The web resource has 55 photos and video clips showing basic jazz dance technique.

Positive Behavior Management in Physical Activity Settings, Third Edition, offers creative ways to facilitate appropriate and responsible behaviors as well as to prevent and redirect disruptive behaviors.

Endorsed by USA Diving, Springboard and Platform Diving breaks down the phases of each dive while providing expert instruction to improve performance. The book includes high-quality photos, mental strategies, and numerous drills, and worksheets, making it the ideal resource for divers and coaches alike.

Recreational Sport provides readers with a foundation in the concepts of recreational sport. Based on current research and offering real-world applications, it will help readers understand how to design, deliver, and manage recreational sport programs no matter what setting they find themselves in.

Achieve your best finish ever when you train by the numbers with former elite triathlete Jim Vance. Triathlon 2.0 shows you how to interpret data from power meters, GPS systems, heart rate monitors, and swim workouts to achieve new goals and optimize performance.

This highly acclaimed book now includes more than 800 full-color photos and extensive coverage of warm-up and cool-down sequences, new poses incorporated into organized workouts, a chapter on the therapeutic and restorative qualities of yoga, and an expanded discussion on integrating meditation into daily life to foster a well-rounded yoga practice.

"Includes exclusive access to online video library" -- Cover.

Turn your dream of launching and running a sustainable tourism business into reality. This step-by-step guide will help you prepare and implement a business plan, anticipate and solve the complex sustainability challenges ahead, and stack the odds of success in your favor.

Fit for Duty, Third Edition, contains complete information on creating and implementing physical fitness and wellness programs for law enforcement officers to ensure that officers are alert, physically ready, and mentally prepared for their demanding job requirements.

The sport's best guide, Lacrosse Essentials, provides instruction on the fundamentals that players need in order to start competing confidently. Coverage includes skills such as passing, catching, shooting, clearing, and goaltending; offensive and defensive plays; simple strategies; and plenty of drills and activities to speed learning and improve performance.

Utilizing nontraditional equipment like heavy ropes, suspension devices, and sandbags, Maximum Interval Training introduces a proven plan for developing power, strength, explosiveness, quickness, and agility. It features 147 exercises and numerous programs for athletes and serious strength and conditioning enthusiasts alike.

The Volleyball Coaching Bible presents the drills top coaches use for developing players at each position and offers insights on strategies for various match situations. In addition to on-court do's and don'ts, coaches will learn what it takes to establish a successful school, university and beach volleyball programme.

Dean Hinitz gives serious bowlers the mental tools for performing at their best. Bowling Psychology features the latest mental training concepts including mindfulness training, sensory awareness, and mind-body connection as well as insightful interviews from top bowlers-many of whom are clients of the author.

Orthopedic Clinical Examination With Web Resource provides readers with thorough evidence-based instruction in developing proficiency at performing systematic orthopedic evaluations.