Developed in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and world-renowned coach Louis Cayer, the Doubles Tennis Tactics Book/DVD Package will help make you part of a winning team on the court! Use the book to learn what positions and movements to use and what shots to make using proven patterns of play. These patterns will increase consistency, put more pressure on opponents, and result in greater success in competitions. 103 playing patterns and drills that are most effective in specific match situations are presented. Court positioning and movement patterns are covered for all four players-server, server's partner, receiver, and receiver's partner-as well as court coverage and special formations for the serving and receiving teams. Practice drills reinforce the patterns so that smart tactical decisions become automatic on every point. The DVD is the perfect learning vehicle for any dedicated doubles player with a strong desire to improve. On-camera expert Louis
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Be part of a winning team on the court! Doubles Tennis Tactics video teaches you what positions and movements to use and what shots to make using proven patterns of play. These two-player team patterns increase consistency, put more pressure on opponents, and result in greater success in competitions. Developed in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and world-renowned coach Louis Cayer, Doubles Tennis Tactics presents a proven system for mastering doubles play. You will discover which patterns are most effective in specific match situations, and you'll learn court positioning for all four players on the court for each pattern-server, server's partner, receiver, and receiver's partner. You'll also find court coverage for the serving and receiving teams, as well as information on poaching and special formations to improve teamwork. The Doubles Tennis Tactics book contains 103 playing patterns and drills, accompanied by clear court diagrams, that make learn
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Improve your doubles play with the same patterns used by pros. Developed in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and one of the world's top doubles coaches, the Doubles Tennis Tactics DVD is the perfect learning vehicle for any dedicated doubles player with a strong desire to improve. On-camera expert Louis Cayer has presented his workshop on tennis doubles at ITF conferences on five continents in front of tennis federation leaders from more than 100 countries. In the Doubles Tennis Tactics DVD he presents complete coverage of the most effective patterns and strategies for every critical aspect of the game: Team strategy Serving Receiving Poaching Movement Positioning Top international pros demonstrate the patterns in Davis and Federation Cup play. Cayer describes the responsibilities of each player by position, followed by sample drills to help viewers practice and reinforce the correct patterns. Cayer teaches how to implement advanced doubles skills, incl
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As a coach or athletic director, your best defense against dehydration in your athletes is education. Drink to Win, the first in a series of posters from ASEP focusing on preparing athletes to compete successfully, is designed to help your athletes do the following: Understand dehydration and its effects on the body. Know when it`s most likely to occur. Recognize its warning signs. Prevent it from happening. This 24- by 36-inch full-color poster features a urine color chart enabling athletes to monitor their hydration levels quickly and accurately. Drink to Win is ideal for displaying in the locker room, gym, weight room, trainer`s room, or other training facilities in order to raise awareness of dehydration and serve as a visual guideline for detecting and preventing it. 10/15/2004 copyright.
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Perfect your preparation for your next match! Get your muscles ready quickly--and correctly--for tennis training and competition using a dynamic warm-up. Drawing from the latest research, training expert Mark Verstegen demonstrates how to prepare the body for forward and backward movements, side-to-side movements, and variable all-court movements in three dynamic warm-up routines you can use right out of the box. By regularly incorporating a dynamic warm-up into your tennis training, you will improve your movement efficiency and overall play. The three routines in this DVD serve as a great starting point for developing a challenging conditioning program. Raise your on-court performance with the Dynamic Tennis Warm-Ups DVD , tested by the best players in the game at USTA training centers and Athletes' Performance training facilities. Human Kinetics DVDs are coded for universal playback and can be played in all regions of the world. 6/25/2004 copyright, 45 minutes.
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With Dynatomy , bring to life the wonders of human movement and applied anatomy for your students. The book is written for students of human performance who have completed an introductory human anatomy course and need a strong text in functional anatomy. The entertaining and easy-to-understand text considers fundamental movements - including posture, walking, running, jumping, throwing, kicking, and lifting-together with selected exercise and sport movements. The emphasis of Dynatomy is on dynamic muscular motions rather than structural anatomy. Students benefit from a discussion of simple and complex human movements combined with an analysis of muscles in motion. The text also introduces the muscle control formula and explains how students can use it to identify the way in which muscles contract during various examples of human movement. Part I presents an overview of the anatomical foundations of movement and the essential requirements for movement control. Part II examines dynam
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Work, social, and family commitments often make it difficult to fit tasty and healthy food choices into your diet. In Eating on the Run , Evelyn Tribole solves your dieting dilemma using her proven expertise concerning all foods, savory and sweet. Divided into four parts for easy reference, Eating on the Run presents the latest and best information on the following issues: Smart food choices for you and your family Eating options for managing weight Strategies for speedy grocery shopping-including sample shopping lists Healthful eating away from home, whether at work, at a restaurant, in your car, or at the airport Nutritional values for common fast foods Eating and ordering ethnic cuisine Dietary decisions relative to hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease Diets and supplements, with advice on today's most popular programs, including liquid meal replacements and high-protein diets such as the Atkins and Zone diets Easy meal preparation, including recipes and tips Eve
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Researchers, coaches, teachers, and rehabilitation specialists will welcome a new paradigm for incorporating more empowerment and decision-making responsibilities into learning motor skills with Ecological Task Analysis and Movement . This book presents the Ecological Task Analysis (ETA) model, which offers strategies for replacing authoritarian practices by promoting student choice and an empowerment approach to learning. The text not only helps researchers design methodologically sound studies to test ETA principles, but it also shows practitioners how to apply these principles in coaching, teaching, or therapy. This groundbreaking book honors and advances an approach to understanding human movement developed in the 1990s by Allen Burton and Walter Davis, and this book is dedicated to Burton's memory. The ETA model is believed to be more efficacious than the categorical approach in special education and adapted physical activity, the teacher-directed approach in physical education,
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Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Second Edition, will help students understand the key elements of effective leadership in both theory and practice, learn important leadership skills through real-world applications, and explore new trends in adventure programming. Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Second Edition, explains how the key elements of leadership work in theory and practice, and it helps train the next generation of adventure leaders-training that is paramount to developing the field. Through this text, readers will enhance their understanding of this rapidly growing profession. Renowned authors Simon Priest and Michael Gass provide in-depth descriptions and real-world applications of the technical, organizational, instructional, and facilitative skills that are essential to adventure leadership. The authors also identify what they call the metaskills that superior leaders use to combine the other essential skills seamlessly and effectively
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Assessments are a part of a physical educator's daily life. But most teachers struggle to find enough time to analyze their curriculum and develop assessments to track students' learning. Enter Elementary Physical Education Teaching & Assessment: A Practical Guide, Second Edition . This guide is designed to make the assessment process not only easier but also more manageable. Assessment becomes not a burden in a teacher's life but an essential teaching tool that assists students in learning what they need to learn-and indeed can motivate and challenge them to take charge of their learning. This book, greatly expanded and revised from its original publication as Teaching for Outcomes in Elementary Physical Education , will help teachers plan and implement school- or districtwide curriculum based on the latest NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education) Standards (2004); create their own assessment tools; understand, develop, and use alternative methods of assessment
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Finally, a research-based book that covers all facets of optimizing the development of muscle and strength. Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength is a comprehensive training guide and reference that provides definitions of key terms and concepts, evaluations of equipment options-including the top innovations, explanations of the role and importance of each muscle group, presentations of the best exercises for adding strength and mass, and descriptions and examples of many types of workouts and programs and their effects. Choose from 255 exercises presented for 11 different muscle groups and the whole body. Proper technique for each exercise is tailored to the type of resistance used, be it free weights, weight machines, or body weight. Plus, each training program is rated according to workout duration, the projected timeframe for achieving measurable results, level of difficulty, and overall effectiveness. Muscle & Fitness senior science editor Jim Stoppani covers each topic in de
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Endurance and multisport athletes are a dedicated bunch. Whether they are running marathons, racing through ocean swims, pedaling over mountains, or competing in triathlons or duathlons, most of these athletes are not content just to finish. Their challenge is to cover the distance with maximum speed. In Endurance Athlete`s Edge , author Marc Evans guides these serious competitors toward high-level fitness, flawless technique, and superior competitive performance. Selected as the USA National Triathlon Team coach and manager in 1989 and 1990, Evans has helped countless athletes move their performance standards ever higher. Through years of working with top athletes, such as Scott Tinley, he has developed a program that produces outstanding results in training and competition. Here, Evans teaches readers the most efficient swimming, cycling, and running techniques through numerous photographs and 50 performance drills. He includes prescriptions for strength training, flexibility, and
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Find your endurance advantage in the foods you eat. Endurance Sports Nutrition will help you select the best foods, fluids, and supplements to train longer, recover more quickly, avoid injuries, and achieve your performance goals in any endurance endeavor. Sports dietitian and former elite runner Suzanne Girard Eberle provides a proven fueling program that addresses the unique needs of endurance athletes: Road and trail running: 5K to 100+ miles Cycling and mountain biking: time trials to multiday rides Duathlon and triathlon: sprint to Ironman Winter sports: Nordic ski races to mountain ascents Water sports: rowing and long-distance swimming Environmental conditions: extreme temperatures and high altitude Complete with customizable menu plans, profiles and advice from elite endurance athletes, and strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls of endurance athletes, Endurance Sports Nutrition will fuel your best performance. 2/19/2007 copyright, 320 pages.
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For the first time, the most influential readings in the field of sport and exercise psychology are compiled here in one volume. Essential Readings in Sport and Exercise Psychology contains the most exciting, innovative, and diverse theoretical orientations and research perspectives generated in the first hundred years of this growing field. In this book, readers will find abridged versions of 50 readings that provide a concise reference to the history, growth, development, and future directions of the field. The book is written by an all-star cast of sport psychologists-all leading professionals from around the world who have been included in a variety of literature reviews and used as references in numerous sport psychology lectures. From the first research article in the field by Norman Triplett in 1898 to papers regarding the more recent challenges of professional practice in the field, the selections in this compilation are the backbone of sport and exercise psychology. Readers
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Essentials of Primary Care Sports Medicine gives a non-orthopedic approach to sports medicine that will help athletic trainers, sports therapists, sports medicine physicians, and health practitioners as well as students in these areas focus on athletes' general health issues. Readers will be able to understand the primary care concerns of athletes, earn their trust, and work more effectively with them. From hypothermia to mononucleosis, Essentials of Primary Care Sports Medicine will help readers recognize relevant signs and symptoms and determine when a physician's attention, diagnosis, and treatment are required. The book outlines different courses of treatment, the significant role an athletic trainer plays in the healing process, and factors involved in the decision to return to activity. University sports medicine team physicians Dr. Greg Landry and Dr. David Bernhardt treat athletes and lecture extensively on the care of athletes with disorders in body systems, infections an
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Team building is a proven approach for helping people become respectful competitors, cooperative team members, and community leaders. Now you can help your students or group develop those same important skills with Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices. The authors, with two successful books on team building and 30 years of team-building experience, offer a day-by-day guide for implementing activities and challenges for individual sessions, units, or an entire semester. The activities and challenges are geared to beginning through advanced participants in a variety of settings, and they help participants develop the following valuable skills: Problem solving Appropriate risk taking Building working relationships Cooperation Leadership and communication Creative thinking Building trust Making decisions Setting goals Developing physical skills In chapters 1 and 2 the authors introduce the concept of team building, including its benefits, its connection with adventure
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Can scientific studies that expose subjects to potentially harmful situations be justified if the subjects are volunteers? Should students be required to participate as subjects in research projects developed to benefit their professors? Can a single set of ethical rules apply to all research situations? These and other questions come under scrutiny in Ethical Decision Making in Physical Activity Research. Written by a lawyer and physical educator, this book explores the important relationship between ethics and the research process. The book begins with a discussion of the scientific method and basic parameters of ethical behavior, then focuses on ethical concerns that can arise in the following situations: The selection and formation of the research question The work of institutional review boards Methodology, including the use of human and animal subjects, data collection, and statistical analysis The presentation of results, including publication Measures used to prevent fraud
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The latest edition of Ethics in Sport doesn't rest on its laurels as the finest and most comprehensive collection of literature to date on moral and ethical issues confronting sport in contemporary society. The diverse anthology of essays written by world-renowned scholars has been updated to reflect the very latest issues of significance in the sporting world and contains many valuable changes. A primer on ethics has been added at the beginning of the text, making this book even more accessible to readers with no background in ethical studies or philosophy. In addition, while some classic essays were retained from the first edition, more than half of the essays are new to the second edition. Ethics in Sport, Second Edition, also includes three previously unpublished essays to provide readers with new perspectives on current themes and how they compare and contrast with already published views. In addition, the text features expanded sections on fair play and social ethics. A co
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