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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.

Developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), this text offers strength and conditioning professionals a scientific basis for developing training programs for specific athletes at specific times of year.

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.

Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to the anatomical, mechanical, physiological, neural, and psychological bases of human movement.

Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair teaches you how to repair your bike with minimal investment in specialized tools. Written for the do-it-yourselfer, not the professional mechanic, each repair includes step-by-step instructions and photo sequences, making the book an accessible and essential resource for any cyclist.

There is an old saying in sports that 'Attack sells tickets while defence wins games'. In the sport of fastpitch softball, the belief has always been that good pitching will beat good hitting. That may have been the case in yesteryear, but the modern game is much more focused on an attack. This book takes a closer look at this evolution.

In Championship Tennis, Frank Giampaolo and Jon Levey cover the most important aspects of training, including athletic assessment, skill development, physical and mental preparation, practicing, and planning. It includes proven practice drills for mastering strokes, anticipatory skills, and styles of play.

Worksite Health Promotion, Third Edition, combines theoretical principles and research with practical applications and real-world examples to give readers a comprehensive and immediately useable introduction to the field. The text presents a step-by-step approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating programs in a variety of settings.

A comprehensive guide to assessing posture, with tips that enable you to perform your observations in a competent manner. It focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort.

Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition, presents the most current information in sport and exercise motivation research and how this research can be applied in exercise, sport, and physical activity contexts.

Developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), this comprehensive text offers extensive information on performance-related assessment and testing for strength and conditioning professionals in measuring key fitness components.

Enhancing Children's Cognition with Physical Activity Games helps you create movement-based learning experiences that build the bodies and minds of children ages 3 to 12. You'll learn how to develop physical activities that foster cognitive development and enhance academic achievement.

Measurement in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides a complete analysis of the tools and methods used in sport and exercise psychology research.

Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, this title brings you the techniques and tricks used by the skateboarding pros. It provides coverage of skateboarding equipment, including how to select the components that work best for you and how to build and tune a board that fits your individual riding style.

A guide to mastering the Tennis game. It helps you gain the techniques and shots that are essential for success in this versatile and powerful game. It also helps you in assessing the basic techniques for the various strokes, and shows how you can improve your footwork, grip choices and swing patterns.

Supplemental text for college PE methods or curriculum courses; primary text for class management, behavior management, and teaching responsibility courses. Resource for K-12 PE teachers, classroom teachers, youth workers, administrators, and coaches who inspire to build character.

Master maneuvers in skating through proven practice skills with Laura Stamm's Power Skating/DVD package. Stamm's new book is coupled with a companion DVD released in 2005 to bring training methods alive. The package demonstrates and instructs the skills and drills necessary to skate your best and elevate your game.

This reference contains 72 lesson plans for shallow and deep water-each including a warm-up and cool-down, variations, choreography, and modifications. A total of 576 total exercises are described and accompanied by 253 photos that depict the key features and the corresponding choreography.

Strap Taping for Sports and Rehabilitation presents taping techniques for use on all body areas in both physical therapy and modified athletic training. This easy-to-use reference contains 50 strap taping techniques with Leukotape that help support or control joint mobility.

Reversing the Obesogenic Environment describes the factors that contribute to an environment that leads to obesity, including public policy, the built environment, food supply and distribution, family and cultural influences, technology, and the media. It also offers tools that help professionals start to reverse the obesity epidemic.

This resource brings together experts in the field to provide students with learning tools critical for success in collegiate athletics administration. It offers foundational knowledge essential to professional administrators.