Learning to play soccer has never been more effective-or more fun-than with Soccer Fundamentals . Students will enjoy using this resource because they will learn by doing and spend less time reading and more time engaged in playing the game. With simple instructions and accompanying photographs you'll find it easy to teach them to play soccer quickly and simply. Soccer Fundamentals devotes separate chapters to mastering specific skills like dribbling, juggling, passing, trapping, executing throw-ins, heading, performing tricks and turns, shooting, and volleying. Sections on offensive and defensive tactics, scoring systems, goal keeping, dead ball kicks, strategy, and sportsmanship make soccer as easy for you to teach as it is for your students to learn. Each chapter addresses a specific skill, leading the student through a simple, four-step sequence: You Can Do It: The skill is introduced with sequential instructions and accompanying photographs. More to Choose and Use: Variations
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Move with grace and feel confident on the dance floor-step by step! Social Dance: Steps to Success will teach you all the moves for eight popular dance styles: Swing Cha-cha Fox-Trot Polka Waltz Rumba Tango Salsa/mambo Each step in the progression teaches you a new skill, then builds on those skills to develop creative dance routines. The first few steps provide a solid foundation of the basics to help you understand alignment, musical structure, and footwork synchronization with the music. As you progress, you will also learn how to lead and follow, move from one dance position to another, combine dance variations into sequences, and much more. Every step also explains why the concept or skill is important, identifies the keys to correct technique, helps you avoid common errors, and explains how to practice each skill. To help you practice, a compact disc is included that features eight tracks of training examples for identifying beat, measures, and general characteristics of th
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In Supplements for Endurance Athletes , you can cut through all the hype and find the information you need on 20 top supplements. Find out which supplements to use-and which to avoid-to maximize your advantage. You'll learn what the supplements are, how they work, how to use them, and the precautions necessary for safe and healthy use. Some of the supplements detailed include: branched-chain amino acids coenzyme Q10 carnitine glycerol glutamine caffeine and ephedrine ginseng sodium citrate Whether you're a runner, cyclist, or triathlete, let Supplements for Endurance Athletes cut through all the hype and help you find the performance edge you're looking for.
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In Supplements for Strength - Power Athletes , you can cut through all the hype and find the information you need on 30 top supplements. Find out which supplements to use-and which to avoid-to maximize your performance. You'll learn what the supplements are, how they work, how to use them, and the precautions necessary for safe and healthy use. Some of the supplements detailed include: acetyl L-carnitine branched-chain amino acids chromium glycerol glutamine caffeine octacosanal sodium citrate zinc-magnesium complex Whether you're competing on the football field or basketball court or looking to build a stronger physique, let Supplements for Strength-Power Athletes help you find the performance edge you're looking for.
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Learning to play volleyball has never been more effective-or more fun-than with Volleyball Fundamentals . Students will enjoy using this resource because they will learn by doing, spending less time reading and more time engaged in playing the game. With simple instructions and accompanying photographs you'll find it easy to teach them to play volleyball quickly and simply. Volleyball Fundamentals begins by teaching formations and rotations so that students get an immediate sense of where they belong on the court. Chapters are devoted to mastering specific skills such as serving, receiving, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging. Sections on offensive and defensive tactics, scoring systems, rules, rotations, and on-court communication make the game as easy for you to teach as it is for your students to learn. Each chapter addresses a specific skill, leading the student through a simple, four-step sequence: You Can Do It: The skill is introduced with sequential instructions and
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Learning weight training basics has never been more effective-or more fun-than with Weight Training Fundamentals . Students will enjoy using this resource because they will learn by doing and spend less time reading and more time engaged in activity. With simple instructions and accompanying photographs, they will learn how to perform basic exercise techniques quickly and simply. Weight Training Fundamentals features definitions of common terms used in the weight room; exercises for each major muscle group; easy-to-follow instructions and sample programs to get students started right away; and clear explanations and applications of weight training principles such as FITT (frequency, intensity, time, and type), gradual progressive overload, individuality and specificity, and adaptation. In short, Weight Training Fundamentals provides everything you need to engage your students in a strength-training program safely, effectively, and in less time! David Sandler is a seasoned instruct
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Benefits of stimulating the flow of chi are well known in the Eastern hemisphere. For the first time ever, established chi kung expert Lam Kam Chuen reveals advanced movements and positions previously unpublished in the Western world. Through clear illustrations and detailed instruction, you'll learn how to improve energy, decrease stress, fight illness, and increase your overall fitness through techniques designed to stimulate the internal flow of chi. In addition to richly illustrated, full-color drawings that demonstrate each position and movement, Chi Kung: Way of Power offers methods for improving your focus, breathing, and creativity based on the Five Energies System of Chinese philosophy. Whether you're a student of tai chi, chi kung, or other oriental healing arts, you'll gain new insights based on this approach, which emphasizes the connection between the mind and body and the energy of the environment. Learn how to move and align your body properly for the enhanced and unin
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Get an updated and quick reference for the successful exercise management of 46 chronic diseases and disabilities. The second edition of the landmark text published in 1997 includes eight new conditions and features updated information, current research, and the latest scientific developments to help you : prescribe exercise programming and testing for clients, especially those coping with multiple conditions; keep informed of the latest developments related to chronic diseases and disabilities; apply exercise programming in your day-to-day practice; parlay specific symptoms of a disease or disability into an effective exercise testing or programming prescription; and stay current on the latest drugs used to treat chronic diseases and disabilities. More comprehensive than ever, the revised content of ACSM's Exercise Management for Persons With Chronic Diseases and Disabilities , second edition, emphasizes practical application rather than scientific theory. You'll find valuable,
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ACSM's Work site Health Promotion Manual is the most practical resource of its kind, giving students and professionals alike the most useful information available to start, run, and evaluate work site programs. Editor Carolyn Cox, PhD, CHES, expertly compiles dozens of proven and implemented ideas and examples from 30 of the top practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the field, making the manual a day-to-day resource for working health promotion practitioners. The hands-on text stresses the importance of making work site health promotion relevant to today's top business leaders to ensure its long-term success. Work site health promotion traditionally has taken a back seat to business and medicine, in part because of consumer attitudes: People don't want to do what they should. For the minority who do, the benefits take time, sometimes years, to achieve. The ACSM's Work site Health Promotion Manual predicts that the profession will only grow and flourish if practitioners succes
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Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design : Explains, with sample unit plans, how to teach the basics of 10 popular dance forms for K-12 settings Explains how to apply educational theories to dance Presents dance education in context of the national standards for dance Helps readers build portfolios that demonstrate their ability to create lesson plans, a unit plan, and a dance curriculum There's a lot more to dance education than steps and dances. To be successful, dance educators must practice a variety of skills that go far beyond dancing. They must incorporate educational theories to meet state and national arts standards, establish a solid knowledge base of the dance form to be taught, and set up developmentally appropriate learning experiences. To help aspiring dance educators acquire the skills that will make them successful in the classroom, this book provides vital information on teaching methods in general, then shares specific applications for teaching each dance form
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Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Under performance in Athletes is the first book to address the multifaceted aspects and significance of recovery in maintaining high-level athletic performance. In this text, 21 contributors take an interdisciplinary approach to assist you in preventing overstraining and under performance in athletes you work with. Enhancing Recovery focuses on recovery as a required component of training and the devastating effects of under recovery, giving you new insights into treating and preventing overstraining and under performance. The editor, Michael Kellmann, PhD, combines a wealth of information from medicine, physiology, periodization training, and psychology as well as studies of people's motivation, health, and lifestyles to explore all aspects of under recovery - not just in sports, but also in everyday life. The four-part text features: theoretical models that draw distinct connections between overstraining and under recovery, applied strategies for
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Exercise and Cancer Recovery provides specific guidelines for cancer exercise intervention and is full of leading-edge information on how exercise rehabilitation can help cancer patients deal with treatment-related symptoms both during and after treatment. The authors, all of whom have extensive experience working in exercise with cancer patients, provide a valuable overview of the etiology and effects of cancer. They also show you step-by-step how to adapt normal assessment and prescription procedures to each client's cancer history and current condition. Whether you work with cancer patients in clinical or applied settings, this book will teach you how to adjust exercise according to the ups and downs of treatment and its side effects. It also shows how to use exercise to strengthen the body and lessen fatigue rather than depress the immune system. You'll gain new insight into what clients are experiencing and how to communicate effectively with their physicians. The text con
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Exercise Endocrinology is the only comprehensive textbook dealing with the endocrine physiology of exercise. The book serves both as a valuable introduction to endocrinology and as an integrative overview of exercise endocrinology. The text will help you understand the basics of endocrinology while giving you the most current information on endocrine physiology research. What makes Exercise Endocrinology unique is its organization by functional responses of hormones rather than by their organs and tissue origins. In addition, the book integrates autonomic physiology with endocrinology to present the most thorough review available of the autonomic nervous system's involvement in exercise. Written by a highly acclaimed exercise scientist and endocrinology researcher, Exercise Endocrinology is well organized and includes references, illustrations, and tables that will help you do the following: Compare hormone sources and effects Categorize hormones, receptors, organ sources, and
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A complete guide to developing strategies for physical activity programs that meet the needs of every client-from healthy athletes to people with physical, pathological, social or psychological limitations. Exercise Management: Concepts and Professional Practice provides an interdisciplinary approach to developing, prescribing and delivering high-quality physical activity programs. Explore how to individualize programs to encourage more people to participate in regular physical activity and enjoy the many health benefits. This useful reference is designed for both students and practitioners involved in developing and managing physical activity, exercise and health-related fitness programs. Learn how to do the following: Overcome the challenges of encouraging people to become and remain active. Develop programs consistent with each person's goals and capabilities. Promote and maintain successful physical activity programming in diverse settings and situations. Develop the profess
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People with exercise-induced asthma do not have to eliminate or limit physical activity, exercise, or competitive sports from their lives. Exercise-Induced Asthma: Pathophysiology and Treatment is a comprehensive reference that presents the latest research and scientifically based information you need to ensure every person can be physically active and perform optimally at every level of competition. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, this is the first book to address exercise-induced asthma in those who are physically active and athletic as opposed to the general population. This authoritative guide will enable you to do the following: Work more confidently with physically active and athletic people with exercise-induced asthma. Understand the physiology of exercise-induced asthma. Diagnose accurately and prescribe medication, safe activity, and athletic practices. Inform athletes about new medical treatments for exercise-induced asthma. Exercise-Induced
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Learn how to identify, treat, and prevent exertional heat illnesses and ensure your sporting events are safe. Exertional Heat Illnesses provides practitioners with all the information they need in one practical reference. Renowned exercise researcher Lawrence Armstrong, PhD, and a team of eight colleagues examine the heat illnesses most common in athletes, recreation enthusiasts, and laborers. The only book to focus exclusively on heat-related illnesses, Exertional Heat Illnesses is full of practical advice for professionals in a variety of medical, academic, and commercial settings. Athletic trainers, physicians, nurses, and emergency medical technicians will find effective treatment options for all exertional heat illnesses. Coaches, athletes, industrial supervisors, and military leaders will learn the causes of heat-related illnesses and ways to prevent them. Fitness, conditioning, and training specialists will gain useful information for their clients and students. Instructor
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Expert Performance in Sports: Advances in Research on Sport Expertise presents an overview of the critical issues facing researchers who study how athletes reach-and stay at-the pinnacle of their sports. The text will allow you to update your knowledge of sport expertise with the most current research and practical applications for the development of sport expertise in athletes, referees, and judges. This comprehensive reference reflects both theoretical underpinnings and future directions in the understanding of sport expertise research and is the first book to look specifically at how elite athletes are developed. Editors Janet L. Starkes and K. Anders Ericsson identify the questions typically asked in the study of sport expertise; they provide a stimulating, scientific debate that addresses the question of whether a general theory of expert performance is achievable; and they conclude with a glimpse of future directions for research on sport expertise. This new reference answers
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Balance and mobility disorders resulting in falls among the elderly population pose a serious public health problem in the United States. Costs associated with falls among the elderly are estimated to range from $75 billion to $100 billion. Coupling this statistic with the fact that adults over the age of 65 represent the fastest-growing population in the United States suggests an immediate need for activity programs specifically designed to reduce physical frailty and the rising incidence of falls among the older adult population. FallProof! is the first comprehensive and structured balance and mobility training program to address these needs. Traditionally, exercise programs designed to address physical frailty and falls have adopted one-dimensional approaches of aerobic exercise, resistance training, or flexibility training. However, research has shown that falls occur as a result of multiple risk factors, both internal and external, and the interplay of multiple body systems. F
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