Back Exercise explores the anatomy and movement of the spine and offers exercises that stabilize, mobilize, and reduce back pain. Low back pain, disc bulge and herniation, spondylolisthesis, stenosis, and spinal surgeries are discussed, along with guidelines for safety and self-assessment.
Diet Lies and Weight Loss Truths offers practical, evidence-based guidance on choosing the right diet plan to effectively and safely lose excess weight and keep it off. Sample meal plans from a registered dietitian and a comparison of pros and cons of popular diet trends will help you make lasting lifestyle changes.
The Complete Guide to Technique, Training, and Competition
by Dan Austin and Bryan Mann
Price: £23.99
ISBN: 9781492598794
Format: Paperback
One of the world’s greatest powerlifters offers a look at how to train and compete in the sport. Ten-time world champion Dan Austin has packed Powerlifting with technical advice for both men and women on nutrition, warm-up and recovery, training for competition, and mental health strategies.
by Karen E. McConnell, Terri D. Farrar and Charles B. Corbin
Price: £80.00
ISBN: 9781492591313
Format: Hardcover
This text helps students acquire the knowledge and skills they need to live healthy lives. It covers personal and consumer health; nutrition; physical, emotional, and mental health; and more. It offers a customizable interactive web text and both an online and print version of the teacher’s guide.
An Insider's Guide to Preparing for the Football Combine
by Loren Landow and Chris Jarmon
Price: £27.99
ISBN: 9781492592624
Format: Paperback
All-Pro Performance Training offers a detailed look at the proper execution for combine staples such as the 40-yard dash and pro agility shuttle, tips for mastering position-specific agility drills, and an inside look into how athletes at the highest level of the sport both train and recover.
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.
This resource will help yoga teachers, physical therapists, and individuals with disabilities create safe and effective yoga practices that accommodate conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, limb amputation, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis.
Learn about the rapidly expanding esports industry in Esports Business Management. Written by esports executives and experts and endorsed by the International Esports Federation, Esports Research Network, and the United States Esports Federation, this is a comprehensive introduction to the world of esports.
Attention and Focus in Dance supports dancers in honing the skills of attention, focus and self-cueing. Readers will learn about attentional challenges; discover advanced strategies for teaching, self-coaching and cueing; unlock their power reserves and release their dance potential.
Sport Coaches’ Handbook supports the education and development of sport coaches by providing them with the knowledge required to fulfill their roles as coaches while considering their personal values and philosophy, the athletes they coach, and the environment in which they coach.
Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive model that prepares students to teach dance in school and community settings. It offers 14 dance units and many tools to help students learn to design lesson plans and units and create their own dance portfolio.
Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future.
by Steven N. Blair, Andrea L. Dunn, Bess H. Marcus, Ruth Ann Carpenter and Peter Jaret
Price: £39.00
ISBN: 9781492597148
Format: Paperback
Active Living Every Day, Third Edition, is a behavior change strategy book intended to help the reader become more physically active. It includes activities and tools within every chapter to encourage the reader to make long-term changes to improve health.
by G. Clayton Stoldt, Stephen W. Dittmore, Mike Ross and Scott E. Branvold
Price: £80.00
ISBN: 9781492589389
Format: Paperback
Sport Public Relations presents an engaging look at the full range of functions conducted by public relations practitioners in sport. Readers will learn the importance of consistent brand communication and how to manage organizational relationships to attain key strategic goals.
