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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.

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.

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.

This text offers the latest information available, including new research on body composition assessments, updated protein requirements for athletes, and a reexamination of various diets and techniques for weight loss.

Aimed as a course text at the undergraduate level. This is the sport psychology book that offers a comprehensive treatment of social psychology as it pertains to sport settings. It contains 20 chapters that are divided into five parts: relationships in sport, coaching leadership, motivational climates, social and cognitive processes, and more.

Focuses on physically demanding occupations that require strength and stamina as conditions of safe, productive and career-long job performance. This book looks at job-related issues and includes case studies that illustrate the positives and the negatives of employee selection and physical maintenance in demanding occupations.

Aimed at personal trainers and other fitness professionals, this work includes methods used by the renowned Cooper Institute to certify personal trainers. It is written to help readers learn the safest, effective way to perform resistance training exercises, with 65 exercises that target every major muscle group.

Intended for badminton players, coaches and instructors interested in teaching, learning or improving proper stroke development, footwork, tactics and basic strategies. This book contains technical content for stroke development which includes racket face angle, swing size and arc, racket speed and impact point.

Janet Evans' Total Swimming provides a variety of workouts without the rigidity of other drill-based books. The 60 easy-to-follow, progressive workouts consist primarily of full-stroke freestyle swimming but also incorporate the backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

Includes 185 drills to help players and teams practice individual techniques and team tactics. Divided into four categories - training, fundamental skills, position-specific and tactical, each chapter contains drills submitted by a coach at one of the USA's top NCAA Division I programmes.

Includes ready-to-use programmes for various areas of health and fitness clubs, including the Five Steps to Programming Success. This book features programmes ranging from aquatics to female-only and the inactive market. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the forms and marketing materials needed for planning and implementing successful programmes.

A collection of 50 articles produced in the field of sport and exercise psychology. This book is for those interested in the development of the subdiscipline. It is useful for courses in sport and exercise psychology. It is also useful as a supplemental text in undergraduate and graduate courses in sport and exercise psychology.

Provides a comprehensive resource and learning tool for the field of aquatics. This book is a resource for providing safe, effective and successful aquatics participation to individuals requiring adaptations to environment, equipment, instructional strategies, skill techniques and teaching methods.

Suitable for undergraduates pursuing professions as coaches, physical education teachers and sport psychologists, this book presents an applied approach to sport psychology. It provides coaches with a practical discussion of motivation, communication, stress management, and mental imagery.

Aimed at professionals in schools, health authorities, leisure centres and other organisations interested in promoting physical activity in young people, this book provides strategies for designing and implementing youth physical activity programmes in a variety of settings.

A reference for coaches, athletes, sports medicine professionals, exercise physiologists, students, sport psychologists, athletic trainers and sports physiotherapists. It gives reader an account of the intra- and interpersonal aspects of why people overtrain and the outcomes of overtraining. It also covers physiology, psychology, and medicine.

Aimed at undergraduate students in physical education, as well as outdoor recreation professionals, this book provides strategies for adventure activities in a variety of recreational, educational, leisure and community settings. It explores the role of games, activities and initiatives in the practical application of outdoor adventure pursuits.

Aims to blend the science of exercise physiology with the ageing process. This book outlines the theories on ageing, the ageing, process, the structural and functional changes that characterise advancing age and the exercise programming concerns for the aged, as well as the benefits of exercise and physical activity.

With more than 200,000 athletes each year suffering injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee, Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries provides an authoritative description of the biomechanical, clinical, and injury factors pertinent to the athletes-primarily girls and young women-who experience this problem.

Suitable for soccer coaches, players, and physical education teachers. Part of the "Human Kinetic's Skills & Drills" series, this book provides detailed technical instructions on the complete array of soccer skills necessary that competitors need to succeed in the sport. It includes photographs, diagrams and coaching points.

An indispensable reference for exercise science researchers and graduate students. Nutritionists, human biologists, physiologists, medical researchers, pediatricians, epidemiologists, and others interested in body composition studies will also find this book to be an excellent resource.

Suitable for students taking dance and dance education courses. This book helps teachers know what to expect from children of different ages when teaching dance. It describes the main developmental aspects of teaching dance, addressing the intellectual, physical, artistic, social and emotional aspects.

Winning strategies from 90 top football coaches in the nation comprise this collection of knowledge and insights from many of the best defensive minds of the game. Illustrations.

With more than 700 detailed photographs illustrating moves and countermoves, this book shows how to handle any opponent in virtually any situation. It provides high school and college wrestlers and their coaches with various fundamentals and fresh refinements in wrestling techniques.

This book provides an overview of the critical issues facing those pursuing research in elite sport. Exploring how athletes reach and stay at the pinnacle of their sport, it identifies questions typically asked in this field and offers theoretical and practical applications for its development.

This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.

This volume aims to equip teachers with clear plans and instructions for introducing dance to school pupils of all ages. Each lesson plan includes explanations as to what skills the pupils will be learning, methods for teaching these skills and ways in which the teachers can customize the plans.

Successful baseball coaches such as Roy Tanner, Gordie Gillespie, Ed Cheff and Gene Stephenson team up with the ABCA to share drills and practice activities for improving specific areas of individual and team performance.