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The Sports Rules Book is updated and expanded to cover 64 sports, including information on each sport's origin and history, basic procedures, terminology, equipment, competitive playing areas, and scoring systems.

Gain valuable teaching and coaching skills with Teaching Power Yoga for Sports, a complete resource for reducing injury and developing strength, flexibility, and performance in your athletes with yoga.

In Developing Agility and Quickness, leading experts from the NSCA offer more than 130 drills, 12 agility and quickness tests, and 15 sport-specific training plans to help athletes gain a step on the competition.

Not all athletes train in the same way. But it's rare to see any athlete workout without warming up. The Warm-Up is the first book to describe the science of the warm-up and provide guidelines on how to maximise its effectiveness. This is done through the use of the RAMP system.

Smarter Workouts delivers effective workouts designed around a single piece of equipment. From mobility to core strength to metabolic conditioning, you'll learn how to create workouts for your goal, your schedule, and the equipment you have access to.

The Happy Runner breaks down the science of performance psychology, introduces training principles, and provides real-world success stories so readers can apply Some Work, All Play (SWAP) principles into their daily routines.

ACSM's Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines, Fifth Edition, presents standards and guidelines to help health and fitness establishments provide high-quality service and program offerings within a safe and appropriate environment.

JC's Total Body Transformation features more than 110 ready-to-use workouts for athletic performance, muscle mass, fat loss, endurance, strength, agility, function, and mobility, along with the nutritional interventions that will help you transform your body.

Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications ties theory to practice as you learn to integrate the movement analysis into your life. Explore the framework and how various people apply it in their lives, then learn how you can do the same.

Assessments for Sport and Athletic Performance guides you through the process of identifying appropriate testing protocols and frequency of administration, selecting appropriate equipment, interpreting the data, and adjusting training based on the results.

Pilates and Conditioning for Athletes details an original Pilates-infused conditioning program for athletes, strength coaches, and professional trainers that taps into the seven pillars of training needed for success: agility, flexibility, mobility, power, speed, stability, and strength.

Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, summarizes the latest brain research in accessible and practical ways. Dance educators can tap into 24 new lesson plans and a new web resource that offers video clips and other tools to help develop strong brains and bodies through joyful movement.

Aquatic Center Marketing delivers practical, affordable, and innovative marketing ideas for aquatic facilities of any type and size to increase membership, boost attendance, establish their image in the community, and reinforce the value of aquatics as an enjoyable lifelong activity.

In Power Yoga: Strength, Sweat, and Spirit, expert instruction from author Leah Cullis will guide you through the poses, practices, and philosophy of the fitness- and focus-boosting method of power yoga.

A text that intends to bridge the gap between research and practice and synthesizes concepts and theories from exercise physiology, kinesiology, measurement, psychology and nutrition to provide a clearly defined approach to physical fitness testing and the design of individualised exercise programmes.

Evidence-Based Practice in Athletic Training provides essential information on the fundamentals of evidence-based practice (EBP) for students who are working toward certification in athletic training and for athletic trainers who wish to stay up to date on best practices in the field.

Offers 104 games and activities that are specifically designed for small groups. This book helps parents, teachers and recreational leaders to teach children how to be physically literate and acquire social reasoning and problem-solving skills.

Swimming: Steps to Success provides progressive instruction on mastering the four basic strokes, starts, turns, and other aquatic skills. Using detailed instruction, full-color photo sequences, drills, and skill assessments, readers will learn to be confident and competent swimmers.

An instructional resource and learning tool covering the fundamentals of baseball. In 17 chapters, top coaches present techniques for proper execution, coaching points, and insights into quicker learning. Common errors are explained and there are photographs of the techniques.

Games for Motor Learning provides you with 111 field-tested games your students will enjoy. These games integrate the schema theory of discrete motor skill learning, cooperative learning, and brain research on emotions and learning into a unified teaching concept.

Dance Integration offers 36 K-5 lesson plans that use dance learning to bring mathematics and science curriculums to life. These plans have proven to improve literacy in dance, mathematics, and science.

StarGuard is the required text for the StarGuard Lifeguard certification. This edition will develop your ability to prevent, recognize, and respond to water emergencies. It includes 2015 ILCOR and AHA guidelines for first aid and CPR and exceeds the CDC Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) guidelines for lifeguard course content.

Reference for secondary physical education teachers. Supplemental text for undergraduate physical education teacher education courses in methods, assessment, or curriculum and instruction.

Timing Resistance Training goes beyond periodization to guide readers through the premise of muscle clocks and how those clocks can be manipulated to control and improve muscle performance.

The Archery Drill Book features over 120 drills to help archers refine their routine and increase accuracy and precision in their shots with step-by-step instructions, detailed photos, coaching tips, and variations to fit their skill level.

Sports Injuries Guidebook, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise reference for more than 130 common sports injuries. Coverage includes common causes, explanation of symptoms, anatomical illustrations, and treatment options.

"Revised edition of Guiding Yoga's Light: Lessons for Yoga Teachers, Second Edition, published in 2008 by Human Kinetics." Motivational Yoga presents 100 ready-to-use lesson plans to help save yoga teachers preparation time and understand how to bring key concepts and philosophies into practice.

Everyone Can!: Skill Development and Assessment in Elementary Physical Education is an elementary PE package based on the Achievement-Based Curriculum model. It addresses developmental needs of all students. The text/Web package has instructional activities and 313 games and offers a systematic way to foster learning and meet national standards.

Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity presents information on sociology of sport to prepare readers for advanced study or practice in the field. This text explores the impact of sport in society and examines careers in sport and physical activity.