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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.

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.

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.

This text and web resource emphasize a personalized approach to exercise in which unique programs meet the interests and needs of individual clients.

Doing Exercise Psychology addresses psychological components of physical activity by providing readers with real client-practitioner relationships and interventions and subsequent analysis of their effectiveness. It is a vital resource for any professional whose clients may benefit from exercise.

In Foundations of Wellness, you'll explore physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual realms of wellness; discover wellness strategies; and learn how to make healthy behavioral changes. Foundations of Wellness will help you achieve balance and peace of mind in your life.

Voted the most-read book by the International Rowing Association, Rowing Faster achieved unparalleled success. Gold-medal coaches, championship athletes, and top scientists have infused the latest scientific training and racing principles into this edition. It is required reading for rowers and coaches.

The Athlete's Clock explores ways in which time and its relationship to athletic effort optimize sport performance.

Leading USATF coaches present event-specific technical instruction and training regimens in this official level 1 text of USA Track & Field's coach education program. Experts in sport psychology, physiology, and biomechanics provide coaches knowledge and applications to improve athletes' performance.

With a focus on foundational information, this title offers practical application of knowledge and skills associated with standardized health and fitness-related tests. It helps you gain an understanding of techniques through 14 easy-to-follow experiential-based learning labs.

Resource for primary school teachers, teaching assistants, and gymnastics club coaches.

NSCA's Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition will lead you through the key concepts of sport and exercise nutrition so that you can assess an individual's nutrition status and-if it falls within your scope of practice-develop customized nutrition plans.

Greg Colby shares his vast coaching experience in this new addition to the popular Steps to Success series. In Football: Steps to Success, Colby's progressive instruction for all of the game's fundamental skills, along with 58 drills, helps players master the basics so they can take the field with confidence.

In this one-of-a-kind collection, the world's top players and coaches share their secrets, guidance and advice on every aspect of the game. From batting to bowling and fielding to coaching, Cricket: 99.94 Tips to Improve Your Game covers it all.

Develop flexibility, balance, and strength for improved performance on the athletic field, in fitness class, and in daily life. Premier fitness instructor and author Jay Blahnik blends the best of yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sport training to create stretching sequences that can be used for warm-up, cool-down, and challenging fitness workouts.

Make your last line of defense as strong as it can be. The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper offers a comprehensive reference and training guide for goalkeepers and their coaches. It shows how to develop keepers from the youth leagues to the pros and covers all aspects of what many believe is soccer's most challenging role.

Developed by ACSM, this text presents a framework for optimizing patients' and clients' functionality by keeping them physically active. It provides evidence-informed guidance on devising individualized exercise programs for persons with chronic and comorbid conditions.

Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Imbalance: The Janda Approach blends postural techniques, neurology, and functional capabilities in order to alleviate chronic musculoskeletal pain and promote greater functionality.

Essentials of Electromyography explains and explores the use of electrical recordings of muscle movements for students taking courses in EMG or any professional dealing with human movement.

Essentials of Eccentric Training is the first comprehensive resource covering this innovative approach to resistance training and conditioning. The text provides the physiological explanations, exercises, and sample programs beneficial to introducing eccentric training into clients' workouts.

More Teaching Games for Understanding presents current research and practice from renowned experts on TGfU. The text is a comprehensive look at this revolutionary way to teach games in PE and sport settings. TGfU empowers kids, deepens their knowledge of game tactics, helps them improve skills, and brings joy to them as they play games.

Sports Massage provides an in-depth discussion of applications of foundational massage techniques within a sports massage approach.

Physical Activity and Health Guidelines is the first text to gather the wealth of information regarding physical activity, exercise, and health needs and recommendations into a single source.

Sports figures, events and organisations affect our society in vast, varied and sometimes unexpected ways. This title tackles some of the most compelling connections between the sports world and public policy. It begins by examining issues related to professional sports. It also explores amateur sports and public health.