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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.

Written by Bill Beswick, renowned performance psychologist and mental skills coach with a wealth of experience for elite teams, including the English Premier League and high-profile teams like Manchester United, One Goal is the definitive guide to developing the mindset of a winning soccer team. It offers proven methods for producing team cohesion, flow, and success.

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.

Endorsed by EuropeActive, this text includes best practices and scientific fundamentals related to the on-the-job responsibilities and duties of qualified personal trainers. The content applies to level 4 of the European Qualifications Framework.

Best Practice for Youth Sport tackles the increasing professionalization and specialization of youth sport and the changing culture of youth sport. The text explores developmentally appropriate practice and encourages athlete-centered practices that are truly beneficial for young athletes.

The Women's Guide to Triathlon presents female-specific training, techniques, and equipment for triathlon. Guided by the USAT Women's Committee, whose goal is to encourage women's participation in the sport, 20 of the sport's top female coaches and athletes offer their winning advice.

Strength Training Past 50 is the authoritative guide for active adults. The all-new third edition features 83 exercises for free weights, machines, kettlebells, stability balls, and elastic bands and 30 programs for endurance, speed, and strength.

Postural Correction presents 30 of the most commonly occurring postural conditions in a comprehensive, full-color format and provides hands-on therapists and body workers with the knowledge and resources to help clients address their malalignments.

Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, includes thoroughly updated nutrition and activity guidelines, multidisciplinary lessons for fourth and fifth graders, eight core Principles of Healthy Living, and a new Kid's Healthy Eating Plate to help kids make healthy food choices.

Beginning Musical Theatre Dance introduces students to basic musical theatre dance techniques from a variety of genres, forms and styles and explains how to put them into practice for performance on stage. It provides them with everything they need to know about auditions, rehearsals, performing and caring for themselves.

Social Issues in Sport, Fourth Edition, explores common questions and issues about sport and its relation to society through various sociological and cultural lenses. The text is grounded in practical application and provides social theories through which students may examine real-world issues.

Now in its second edition, Instructing Hatha Yoga is a comprehensive guide to developing the knowledge and qualities of a confident and truly qualified yoga instructor. The updated edition includes revised poses complete with instructions, a web resource, and sample children's and prenatal classes.

Provides ready-to-implement preseason, in-season, and off-season training programs to boost strength, agility, quickness, and power. Included are 184 exercises and drills accompanied by an enhanced online video library featuring dozens of exercises and on-court and off-court drills.

Soccer Speed addresses all aspects of speed, including physical conditioning, tactical skills, and mental strategies, with 36 drills and small-sided games. Players will learn to retain and regain possession, change direction quickly, master one-touch passing and receiving, and employ strategies to unbalance the opposition.

Presents fresh insights on leadership from a diverse collection of the most important voices in the field today. In this title, the contributors present a comprehensive look at leadership, identify the challenges future leaders will face and reveal how future leaders can best prepare to meet those challenges.

This step-by-step guide to conquering the lanes covers grip, stance, footwork, arm swing, timing, strike targeting, and spare shooting as well as strategies for adjusting to various lane conditions. Dozens of drills and self-scoring exercises chart progress and accelerate improvement.

Motor Learning and Control for Dance is the first textbook to blend dance science, somatic practices, and pedagogy and address motor learning theory from a dance perspective. It focuses on motor development, motor control, and motor learning while showcasing principles and practices for students and teachers.

Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence helps dancers develop psychological strength to maximize their performance. The book covers the key mental aspects of dance performance and offers practical exercises that will make dancers' minds their most powerful tools.

Provides techniques for diagnosis and treatment of concussion and other injuries to the head, spine, and peripheral nervous system. This evidence-based reference bridges the gap between principles and practice to better manage these serious injuries.