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Running Mechanics and Gait Analysis With Online Video is the premier resource for running mechanics and injury prevention. Referencing over 250 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, this text is a comprehensive review of the research and clinical concepts related to gait and injury analysis.

Helps children understand what a healthy diet is and how to stay physically active every day. This book teaches them how to make healthier nutrition and activity choices and discover how healthy eating and regular physical activity keep them feeling their best.

Well illustrated with figures and photos, this text brings together leading authorities in exercise physiology to help readers understand the research findings and meet the most prominent professionals in the field.

Practical Pharmacology in Rehabilitation discusses the effects of medications in the rehabilitation process and assists rehabilitation professionals in designing patient-specific therapy plans based on coexisting disease states and medications used.

Biologic Regulation of Physical Activity provides readers with a cutting-edge perspective of underlying issues that may contribute to the obesity epidemic. It offers evidence of a biologic regulator affecting physical activity and explores implications of such biologic control on activity.

The Tennis Drill Book covers every aspect of the game, with the best drills for groundstrokes, volleys, serves, returns, singles and doubles play, offensive and defensive strategy, and conditioning. More than 260 drills and games to ace the competition!

This text provides primary teachers of all experience with the knowledge they need to plan and deliver age-appropriate dance lessons. It offers a scheme of 22 units of work suitable for reception to year 6, along with practical and creative ideas for teaching dance. It includes a web resource to support teaching and learning.

Developed through a partnership with the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance and the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity, Implementing Physical Activity Strategies profiles 42 physical activity programs that are helping people adopt more active and healthy lifestyles.

This comprehensive text explains how health fitness psychology has emerged from other parent disciplines to be addressed in numerous exercise, fitness, and health settings, allowing both current and future professionals to assist their patients or clients in adopting healthier lifestyles.

Better Body Workouts for Women is a personalized approach to building strength, endurance, and agility. Packed with full-color photos and descriptions of the most effective exercises and programs, as well as strategies for accelerating and maintaining results, this guide is for any woman serious about pushing her body to the next level.

Suitable for those seeking improved fitness and muscle tone or a slimmer, more ripped physique, this title features programmes that can be performed at home or in the park as well as in the gym. It offers solutions to the most common issues men face inside and outside the gym.

Fusion Workouts offers an approach to fitness, yoga, Pilates, and barre that offers efficient ways to gain strength, muscle definition and endurance, flexibility, and balance.

Soccer: Steps to Success, Fourth Edition, provides players and coaches alike with progressive and detailed information on the individual skills and team tactics they need to excel on the field. This full-color book covers every aspect of soccer: dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, tackling, defending, heading, and goalkeeping.

Part of the Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance series, this book offers an introduction to the study of ballet as a performing art. It features more than 80 photographs and concise descriptions covering basic foot and arm positions, barre exercises and centre combinations. It also introduces students to the structure of a ballet class.

Caffeine for Sports Performance helps athletes understand how to safely use caffeine to get the most out of their sports. The resource covers all issues related to caffeine and includes guidance for athletes, coaches, and fitness enthusiasts who are deciding whether they can or should use caffeine to boost their athletic performance.

A wrestling book that includes drills, coaching advice and practice planning. It features match-tested drills from takedowns, escapes, and reversals to riding and pinning combinations, each contributor breaks down a technique, tactic, or facet of wrestling for which they are renowned.

Physiological Tests for Elite Athletes, Second Edition, is an essential guide to the most effective assessment protocols. Using these proven protocols, exercise physiologists can acquire detailed information to assist coaches and their athletes in attaining a competitive edge.

Complete Offensive Line is a one-of-a-kind resource for developing all offensive line positions. Authored by one of the most respected line coaches in the game, Rick Trickett, the book includes in-depth instruction and drills for mastering essential skills, tactics, and schemes to dominate the line and the opposition.

Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement: Improving Performance in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition, focuses on the processes behind assessment and diagnosis of movement technique, emphasizing the elements of professional intervention in diagnosis.

With an accessible and engaging style, Fitness & Health, Seventh Edition, offers students a practical resource focused on a deeper understanding of the exercise-health relationship and provides a framework for attaining health and fitness goals.

Explains essential concepts of music and examine these concepts in relation to dance performance, composition and teaching. This title helps professional choreographers, dance teachers and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance.

Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise will give you an understanding of all aspects of steroid use and abuse as well as testing, treatment, and prevention options, plus insights from 15 experts on the scientific, clinical, historical, and legal aspects of steroid abuse and drug testing.

Demonstrates the most effective forms for harnessing the healing power of chi, or energy. This step-by-step guide comes complete with detailed instructions and full-colour photographic sequences for the basic movements and popular forms, such as Grasp Sparrow's Tail and Part the Wild Horse's Mane.

Water Exercise delivers 15 programs for fitness, rehabilitation, and management of chronic conditions. There are exercises for warm-up and flexibility and exercises for those who want beginner, intermediate, or advanced workouts. Water Exercise also covers common injuries and conditions with exercises for the ankle, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, and elbow.

Safe Dance Practice bridges the gap between research and application for dancers and dance educators at all levels. The book presents integrated guidelines and principles that will maximize physical and mental well-being without compromising creativity and expression.

From personalized workouts to expert running advice, Fitness Running contains programs from one of America's most respected coaches. The 13- to 26-week programs, color coded and customizable, cover every goal, from staying in shape to preparing for races ranging from 1500 meters to the marathon.

The ultimate training resource for athletes and coaches includes more than 262 exercises and drills, programming, and exclusive access to online video library. Assessments provide parameters for individual programs and sport-specific training.

Endorsed by EuropeActive, this text includes fundamentals and best practices of concepts, duties and responsibilities that fitness instructors perform on the job. The content applies to level 3 of the European Qualifications Framework.

Endorsed by EuropeActive and framed in the Code of Ethical Practice, EuropeActive's Foundations for Exercise Professionals contains the foundational knowledge for every level of the qualifications framework in Europe to help exercise professionals meet and maintain recognised professional standards.