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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.

Based on the most current research in nutrient timing, Performance Nutrition blends theory with applied content and real-life examples to show nutritionists, coaches, and athletes how to optimize training, improve performance, and enhance recovery.

Men's Body Sculpting, Second Edition, is your key to getting the lean and chiseled muscular look you've always wanted. Bodybuilding expert and featured columnist Dr. Nick Evans provides you with proven programs for generating mass, reducing fat, and sculpting and maintaining your physique.

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.

The Athlete's Guide to Sports Supplements is for athletes, coaches, and trainers seeking information on safe and legal performance-focused supplements. Listed alphabetically, each of the 120 supplements has a detailed description of what it is and how it works, facts on performance benefits, current research, recommended dosages, and health concerns.

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.

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.

The second edition of FallProof!, now packaged with a DVD, is a practical guide to implementing a multidimensional balance and mobility training program to address the increasing incidence of falls among older adults.

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.

Elite runners have long relied on technology to analyse performance, maximise training and challenge the competitive boundaries of the sport. This title takes the reader inside tech-based training, from the assortment of speed and distance devices available to the advantages of tracking and analysing the results with the software.

Analyses some of the top athletes, competitive trends and positional demands across 21 sports to help readers determine and achieve their optimal competitive weight. This book teaches athletes how to assess body composition, nutritional requirements and their training programmes. It helps athletes reach their goals without sacrificing safety.

Effective Functional Progressions in Sport Rehabilitation helps clinicians understand the important concepts of functional progressions and equips them to develop rehabilitation programs specific to the needs of their clients.

As part of the "Steps to Success Series", this book covers every aspect of the sport such as equipment selection and fitting, safe shooting guidelines, proven techniques for improved accuracy in the prone, standing, kneeling, and sitting positions, mental and physical training, sooting drills to increase all-round consistency.

One out of three children are challenged by excessive body fat and these boys and girls are poorly suited for endurance-type exercise which they are typically asked to perform and which they are typically avoid at all costs. This book presents a myriad of resistance exercises which they tend to enjoy more.

Addresses the special conditioning needs of swimmers, including specific exercises for various strokes, for starts, turns and tapering plans. This book includes sample conditioning plans for younger swimmers, competitive swimmers, masters swimmers and even triathletes.

Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete is an inspiring account of a growing subculture of Americans who are challenging the notion of what it means to grow old. These baby boomers can hardly be considered old, yet this huge group is rewriting the rules of aging. These stories of trials and perseverance will motivate you to achieve your best.

Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training shows professionals how to design aquatic rehabilitation and exercise programs for various groups and individuals across the life span.