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A unique, thought-provoking examination of the world's most popular individual sport. Analyzing the latest research, studies, and player and performance trends, Tennisology explores the factors that affect training, competition, and on-court play. It's a fascinating read for passionate players, coaches, and fans alike.

Complete Conditioning for Lacrosse will help players accelerate faster, improve change-direction skills, take more powerful shots on goal, and get in great shape. Using 190 exercises to improve flexibility, speed, agility, power, and strength, players will be dominant forces on both ends of the field.

The Hockey Coaching Bible presents drills for developing players at each position and strategies for in-game situations, including offensive, defensive, and neutral zone play and power plays and penalty kills. Other topics include building a program from the ground up and furthering your professional development as a coach.

With a full suite of related resources, this book intends to support pupil development and encourage the adoption of healthy behaviours that influence their lifestyle choices, health and fitness. It offers a complete integration of physical education and health concepts and skills to maximise student interest, learning and application.

The perfect way to build muscle and shed fat, High-Intensity 300 features unique workouts that can be completed in only 30 minutes. Programs such as Ultimate Fat Loss, Getting Stronger, and Target Muscle Builders not only challenge you but also produce results. When you're ready, 40 Toughest Workouts will raise the bar for maximum performance.

Essential for coaches and parents of teen runners involved in cross country, distance track events, and road racing, Training Young Distance Runners draws on the latest scientific research to present easily understood and applied training plans plus guidelines for designing customized programs.

Exercise for Frail Elders, Second Edition, emphasizes balance and features over 150 photos illustrating the design and implementation of a safe and effective exercise program to improve range of motion, strength, and aerobic endurance for frail elders and older adults with special needs.

Provides an evidence-based review of the connections between physical activity, mental health, and well-being, presenting research illustrating how the use of physical activity can reduce the impact of potentially debilitating mental health conditions.

A resource that teaches high school students the fundamentals of health and wellness, how to avoid destructive habits and how to choose to live healthy lifestyles. It covers all aspects of healthy living throughout the life span, including understanding health and wellness, and, preventing disease and seeking care.

Including information and issues in the competitive world of sport marketing, this text intends to direct students to a better understanding of the theoretical backbone to sport marketing. It also contains practical material that prepares students for careers in sport marketing.

One of the keys to success in football is having solid, well-rounded attacking skills. In today's game all 10 outfield players on the field, not just the strikers, need to be proficient in attacking play. This is a guide for teaching the necessary skills and tactics needed to outscore the opposition.

Detailing up-to-date research technologies and approaches, Research Methods in Biomechanics, Second Edition, assists both beginning and experienced researchers in developing methods for analyzing and quantifying human movement.

With photographs, step-by-step descriptions of essential punches and combinations, and a DVD of workouts, variations and training tips, this title shows you how to incorporate high-tempo movements and engage the core and upper and lower-body muscles to burn fat and increase strength, flexibility, agility and cardio respiratory endurance.

Suitable for coaching young footballers aged five to twelve, this title contains over 100 drills and games to make training sessions more fun and productive.

Well illustrated with figures and photos, this text brings together leading authorities in exercise physiology to help readers understand the research findings and meet the most prominent professionals in the field.

Practical Pharmacology in Rehabilitation discusses the effects of medications in the rehabilitation process and assists rehabilitation professionals in designing patient-specific therapy plans based on coexisting disease states and medications used.

The Tennis Drill Book covers every aspect of the game, with the best drills for groundstrokes, volleys, serves, returns, singles and doubles play, offensive and defensive strategy, and conditioning. More than 260 drills and games to ace the competition!

This text provides primary teachers of all experience with the knowledge they need to plan and deliver age-appropriate dance lessons. It offers a scheme of 22 units of work suitable for reception to year 6, along with practical and creative ideas for teaching dance. It includes a web resource to support teaching and learning.

Developed through a partnership with the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance and the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity, Implementing Physical Activity Strategies profiles 42 physical activity programs that are helping people adopt more active and healthy lifestyles.

This comprehensive text explains how health fitness psychology has emerged from other parent disciplines to be addressed in numerous exercise, fitness, and health settings, allowing both current and future professionals to assist their patients or clients in adopting healthier lifestyles.

Better Body Workouts for Women is a personalized approach to building strength, endurance, and agility. Packed with full-color photos and descriptions of the most effective exercises and programs, as well as strategies for accelerating and maintaining results, this guide is for any woman serious about pushing her body to the next level.

Suitable for those seeking improved fitness and muscle tone or a slimmer, more ripped physique, this title features programmes that can be performed at home or in the park as well as in the gym. It offers solutions to the most common issues men face inside and outside the gym.

Fusion Workouts offers an approach to fitness, yoga, Pilates, and barre that offers efficient ways to gain strength, muscle definition and endurance, flexibility, and balance.

Soccer: Steps to Success, Fourth Edition, provides players and coaches alike with progressive and detailed information on the individual skills and team tactics they need to excel on the field. This full-color book covers every aspect of soccer: dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, tackling, defending, heading, and goalkeeping.

Part of the Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance series, this book offers an introduction to the study of ballet as a performing art. It features more than 80 photographs and concise descriptions covering basic foot and arm positions, barre exercises and centre combinations. It also introduces students to the structure of a ballet class.

A wrestling book that includes drills, coaching advice and practice planning. It features match-tested drills from takedowns, escapes, and reversals to riding and pinning combinations, each contributor breaks down a technique, tactic, or facet of wrestling for which they are renowned.

Complete Offensive Line is a one-of-a-kind resource for developing all offensive line positions. Authored by one of the most respected line coaches in the game, Rick Trickett, the book includes in-depth instruction and drills for mastering essential skills, tactics, and schemes to dominate the line and the opposition.

With an accessible and engaging style, Fitness & Health, Seventh Edition, offers students a practical resource focused on a deeper understanding of the exercise-health relationship and provides a framework for attaining health and fitness goals.