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A comprehensive sports training manual that is suitable for dedicated strength and conditioning practitioners and athletes and coaches looking to expand their knowledge on how to develop and optimise human performance and athletic capacity. Each topic is addressed by a world renowned expert in a specific component of sports conditioning.

Breathing for Peak Performance presents detailed anatomical information related to optimal breathing function and offers 35 breathing exercises. This text uses the famed Franklin Method, which combines movement, imagery, and touch to improve functional breathing technique.

With 156 detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations, Golf Anatomy, Second Edition, depicts 72 exercises proven to improve strength, power, and range of motion. Golfers will add distance to drives, consistency to the short game, and accuracy to putts.

Tudor O. Bompa, the pioneer of periodization training, and Carlo A. Buzzichelli, one of the world's foremost experts on training methods, use scientific support and their expertise to teach you how to maximize training gains with periodization.

Strength Training Anatomy for Athletes offers a wide variety of exercises for athletes who want to get stronger for their sport. Covering warm-up, recovery, injury prevention, and programming for 43 sports, it is a comprehensive and practical guide to optimizing athletic performance.

Shows you how to improve performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement. This title features 82 of the most effective multisport exercises with step-by-step descriptions and full colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the muscles in action.

A compilation of advice on swimming, in which experts discuss their areas of expertise in each aspect of coaching the sport. There are specific techniques for each swimming stroke and style, as well as detailed training programmes for every event. Suggestions for practice sessions are included.

Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook offers scientifically supported and experience-based guidelines to help you have your best show ever. There are detailed posing tips, food and fluid plans, strategies for contest weekend, and postshow recovery tactics.

Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, written by internationally recognized low back specialist Stuart McGill, guides readers through the assessment and treatment of low back pain, providing evidence-based research on the best methods of rehabilitation and prevention of future injury.

A guide for any archer wishing to improve their accuracy, increase consistency and achieve competitive success. Featuring the in-depth instruction, insight and advice from the world's top coaches and archers, it is suitable for those who compete with the recurve or compound bow.

Featuring the underlying strategies, planning and tactical skills required to take basic movements to a higher level, this video should be useful to any jujitsu artist. The reader is introduced to combat phases versus ranges and is shown how to attack and win from any phase.

Rowing Science explains and applies up-to-date scientific research across all aspects of the sport to optimize rowing skills and performance, making it essential reading for serious rowers, coaches, and rowing scientists.

Based on scientifically proven strategies for making workouts more effective, Elite Physique will help men sculpt and transform their physique with full-body workouts, body part-specific exercises, and joint-friendly variations.

NSCA's Guide to High School Strength and Conditioning equips you to deliver the highest-quality strength and conditioning program in the high school setting-whether you are a strength and conditioning professional, physical education teacher, sport coach, or administrator.

Strength Training for Soccer will help you create a soccer-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position-goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards-develop strength and power that will prepare them for the demands of a game.

Motor Learning and Performance, Sixth Edition, constructs a conceptual model of factors that influence motor performance, outlines how motor skills are acquired and retained with practice, and shows how to apply those concepts to a variety of real-world settings.

Tennis Anatomy brings your game to life with over 194 full-color anatomical illustrations depicting strokes and movements, strengthening exercises, and injury-prevention exercises. The 72 step-by-step exercises are arranged anatomically for shoulders, arms and wrists, chest, back, core, and legs, with explanations of how each affects performance.

Periodization of Strength Training for Sports demonstrates how to use periodized workouts to peak at optimal times by manipulating strength training variables through six training phases-anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to specific strength, maintenance, and peaking.

Hockey Plays and Strategies features plays, systems, and strategies for gameplay in the offensive, neutral, and defensive zones. With tactics for all players in each of the various zones, you can prepare players to hit the ice with confidence and dominate their opponents.

Running Anatomy, Second Edition, features 48 of the most effective exercises for runners--each with clear step-by-step descriptions--and 155 anatomical illustrations highlighting the runner's muscles in action.

NSCA's Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition, Second Edition, examines the effects that nutrition has on performance, health, and body composition. It helps you understand how to assess an individual's nutrition status and-if it falls within your scope of practice-develop customized nutrition plans.

Suitable for active people, this book provides comprehensive coverage for athletes and fitness exercisers alike. It contains information on the nutrition needs of both sexes in several sports and also includes information on supplements, energy drinks, and nutrient timing as well as advice for athletes who have undergone gastric bypass surgery.

Soccer Anatomy combines step-by-step instructions and full-color anatomical illustrations to convey proper form of the 79 soccer-specific exercises that increase speed, strength, and agility as well as prevent injury. Exercises are arranged anatomically, making it easy to target specific muscle groups.

If you're serious about your sport, you're serious about heart rate training. From functions, features and operational advice for your device to interpreting and applying the results, this is a step-by-step guide to optimizing performance.

Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. This guide shows you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries.

The Sport Business Handbook provides perspectives from more than 100 of the most prominent figures in the sport business industry. Plentiful examples and stories, including insiders' views of major sports deals, make this book a bible of information for those looking to advance their careers in this field.

Learn to master essential volleyball skills such as serving, receiving, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging. With this book's coverage of scoring systems, rules, rotations, and common tactics, it's never been easier to teach or learn the game.

The New Power Eating delivers a science-based nutrition plan that explains what to eat and when and how to customize your diet for your physique, performance, and energy needs. This is the authoritative guide for adding muscle and cutting fat.

Hockey Anatomy presents 96 exercises with 68 variations to improve on-ice performance. Highly detailed anatomical drawings highlight muscle groups used during exercise and during game action.

Dumbbell Training, Second Edition, will help you incorporate dumbbells into your training routines. It offers more than 110 exercises and 66 ready-to-use programs for increased power, speed, agility, and balance.