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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.

A guide to Primary Swimming is designed to support school teachers with limited knowledge and experience of teaching swimming deliver the swimming component of the National Curriculum for key stages 1 and 2. It is spiral-bound and even printed on waterproof material allowing it to be used at the poolside without fear of damage.

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.

Basketball: Steps to Success details the skills and tactics needed for excellence on the court. Hal Wissel, renowned college and professional coach, shooting instructor, and special consultant to NBA players, covers the entire progression of technical and tactical development needed for becoming a complete player.

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.

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.