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Biologic Regulation of Physical Activity provides readers with a cutting-edge perspective of underlying issues that may contribute to the obesity epidemic. It offers evidence of a biologic regulator affecting physical activity and explores implications of such biologic control on activity.

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.

Explains essential concepts of music and examine these concepts in relation to dance performance, composition and teaching. This title helps professional choreographers, dance teachers and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance.

Demonstrates the most effective forms for harnessing the healing power of chi, or energy. This step-by-step guide comes complete with detailed instructions and full-colour photographic sequences for the basic movements and popular forms, such as Grasp Sparrow's Tail and Part the Wild Horse's Mane.

Water Exercise delivers 15 programs for fitness, rehabilitation, and management of chronic conditions. There are exercises for warm-up and flexibility and exercises for those who want beginner, intermediate, or advanced workouts. Water Exercise also covers common injuries and conditions with exercises for the ankle, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, and elbow.

Safe Dance Practice bridges the gap between research and application for dancers and dance educators at all levels. The book presents integrated guidelines and principles that will maximize physical and mental well-being without compromising creativity and expression.

Packed with group and at-home exercises, recreational activities, yoga, balance work, core work, and nutrition essentials, Fitness: Steps to Success enables readers to create fitness programs based on their goals, desires, and schedules.

From personalized workouts to expert running advice, Fitness Running contains programs from one of America's most respected coaches. The 13- to 26-week programs, color coded and customizable, cover every goal, from staying in shape to preparing for races ranging from 1500 meters to the marathon.

The ultimate training resource for athletes and coaches includes more than 262 exercises and drills, programming, and exclusive access to online video library. Assessments provide parameters for individual programs and sport-specific training.

Endorsed by EuropeActive, this text includes fundamentals and best practices of concepts, duties and responsibilities that fitness instructors perform on the job. The content applies to level 3 of the European Qualifications Framework.

Endorsed by EuropeActive and framed in the Code of Ethical Practice, EuropeActive's Foundations for Exercise Professionals contains the foundational knowledge for every level of the qualifications framework in Europe to help exercise professionals meet and maintain recognised professional standards.

Massage Therapy: Integrating Research and Practice presents research examining evidence for the use of various massage techniques in treating conditions and special populations. The text covers information from fields such as kinesiology, medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and psychology.

ACSM's Guide to Exercise and Cancer Survivorship provides tools for offering safe exercise programs to help cancer survivors improve their health, take proactive steps toward preventing recurrences, and enhance their quality of life.

Written by leading scientists from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, Physical Activity and Health, Second Edition, brings together the results of the most important studies on the relationship between physical activity, sedentarism, and various health outcomes.

Resource for K-12 classroom and physical education teachers, recreation centers, day camps, before- and afterschool programs, church groups, Boys & Girls Clubs, birthday and other parties, holiday parties, and scout troops.

Primary or supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level classes in adventure programming, outdoor or adventure programming, and experiential education. Reference for outdoor adventure scholars, leaders, programmers, and administrators.

This loose-leaf version of Kinetic Anatomy, Third Edition, offers students an affordable, printed version of the text. Other binding options are listed on the right side of the page.

The pace of technological improvements has been such that cycling has often been likened to Formula 1 racing on two wheels. Rather than examining the research into old-school ideas, many coaches and athletes blindly accept them simply because they've been handed down through the generations. This title questions the validity of old-school ideas.

Biochemistry Primer for Exercise Science, Fourth Edition, presents an introduction to biochemistry that gives readers insight into the molecular aspects of physical activity. The fourth edition features updated research and new information on signaling pathways and the regulation of gene expression.