The strength training strategy of linear periodization has long been recognized as an efficient system of resistance training. But-until now-no one had researched and explored the potential benefits of a nonlinear periodization training program. Authors William Kraemer and Steven Fleck delve into nonlinear, or undulating, periodization to examine how it can result in long-term fitness and performance gains by adding more variety to workouts and optimizing each training session. In doing so, Dr. Kraemer and Dr. Fleck pioneer this newest periodization training technique and have become the leading proponents of this unique training method. Their innovative approach to strength training is shown to facilitate the training process and enhance performance, a fact Dr. Kraemer has demonstrated in several ongoing studies with basketball teams at the University of Connecticut. Optimizing Strength Training: Designing Nonlinear Periodization Workouts explains how nonlinear periodization wor
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If you have ever looked for a collection of great schedules and brackets that can be easily tailored to your events, then look no further- Organizing Successful Tournaments is the one resource that will put an end to your search! Whether you are running a three-team league, a huge tournament, or anything in between, the most competitive and fair schedule or bracket is at your fingertips in this comprehensive package. More than 1,000 Microsoft Word templates provide the framework for virtually any tournament format and are programmed to automatically create draw sheets for competitions based on your input of divisions, seeds, locations, dates, and times. Every major type of competition-single elimination, double elimination, multilevel, round robin, ladder, pyramid, and level rotation-is thoroughly explained to help you determine the type that best suits your needs. You'll also find information on assigning seeds, awarding byes, and establishing proper tie breaking procedures. With Or
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Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies will show students how to use physical, cognitive, and affective methods to teach lessons in different settings to different audiences; link educational theories to teaching methods and choose the best method for each setting; and implement strategies with easy-to-use forms and lesson plans. Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies provides all the necessary information and tools for teaching outdoor education. It applies educational theories to outdoor teaching methods and helps educators choose the instructional strategy that will work best for their audience, whether they're in a school, nature center, adventure center, camp, environmental learning center, government agency, or university. This text includes the following features: Easy-to-use forms for designing, implementing, and evaluating outdoor lesson plans Six highly detailed sample lesson plans, representing a variety of settings for different age groups and abilities and
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Outdoor Leadership: Theory and Practice will help you develop eight core competencies that are based on professional standards and are the foundation of successful outdoor leadership, understand how to transform theory into practice through a framework that includes real-life chapter-opening stories and learning activities to help build leadership competencies, and develop and demonstrate leadership competencies by creating a professional development portfolio that documents successful leadership experiences. Outdoor Leadership: Theory and Practice is the foundational course text and professional reference for learning and developing outdoor leadership competencies. The authors, experienced outdoor leadership instructors who have worked in a variety of outdoor settings, outline the steps to mastering eight core competencies that not only help you develop leadership abilities but also help you meet current professional standards: Foundational knowledge Self-awareness and professi
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Learn factors to consider when balancing the outdoor recreation interests of individuals and the management of natural resources. Use the most current data available to evaluate development, regulation, and management issues. Gain insight into the challenges ahead in the areas of resources, planning, environmental issues, and the role of outdoor education. Understand the role and scope of outdoor recreation and education as either an outdoor and adventure educator or natural resource manager. Appreciate the trends and issues related to outdoor recreation in America. Recognize and program for the values and benefits of outdoor recreation. Outdoor Recreation in America is back-fully revised and updated, with significant new material based on current statistics from a number of sources, including the latest U.S. Census Bureau and the latest National Survey on the Environment. Now in its sixth edition, this book continues to lead the way in its comprehensive coverage of issues in th
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Through Parachute Games With DVD, Second Edition , you can lead 59 parachute activities; adapt the activities to a myriad of game settings and participant needs; use the DVD to preview select activities or to show participants how much fun they will have with a parachute; and offer games that enhance fitness as well as social, motor, and other skills. The best-selling Parachute Games is now revised, extended, and packaged with a DVD you can use to preview selected activities before leading them-and let your participants preview it as well so they can see how much fun parachute games are. This new edition retains everything from the very popular first edition, and it includes the following: The latest information about parachutes, including parachute care and age-appropriate uses 59 revised and new games, plus dozens of new variations of games from the first edition 28 games in live action on the DVD New Variations and Teaching Tips sections Plenty of descriptive details to a
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Through Paraeducators in Physical Education: A Training Guide to Roles and Responsibilities , you can help paraeducators support students with disabilities in physical education; understand their roles and responsibilities in physical education; and discover strategies for communication, collaboration, behavior management, and instruction. Paraeducators work in virtually every school-but until now, no systematic training program has existed to teach them how to work effectively with children in physical education settings. Paraeducators in Physical Education: A Training Guide to Roles and Responsibilities is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use training package for teachers, administrators, and paraeducators. This book and CD-ROM package puts everything you need at your fingertips for effective training from pre kindergarten through high school settings for both general and adapted physical education. Through this package, paraeducators will improve their knowledge, expertise, and ex
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Tap into the genius of Boyd Epley, founder of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and the University of Nebraska's storied Husker Power program. The Path to Athletic Power provides unique insight into the evolution of modern sports conditioning, how it was significantly influenced by the developments in Epley's highly successful program, and the best and most current version of that program, so you too can build superior athletes. Epley`s 10 conditioning principles provide the foundation for big-time success on the field or court. Draw on the same methods he`s used to develop three Heisman Trophy winners, eight Outland Trophy winners, and 300 athletes who moved on to play in the NFL or win national, world, or Olympic titles. From training three-dimensional movement to using split routines, his innovative workouts have produced exceptional gains in power, strength, and speed. With the help of step-by-step explanations and exclusive insights appearing in print for
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Develop new instructional strategies that lead to positive growth in young people. Blend instruction options to take the physical activity experience to another level. Move toward a coordinated school health approach. Provide 136 teacher-tested, developmentally appropriate, fun, and creative activities to foster a love of physical activity. Teachers want their students to be successful-not just in the classroom, but throughout their lives as well. Through PE Connections: Helping Kids Succeed Through Physical Activity , teachers can provide the experiences that help students succeed in a much broader sense than is usually associated with a physical education class. PE Connections accomplishes this by offering teachers and after-school care providers three instructional approaches that expand the definition of student success: teaching quality physical education, building social and personal competencies through developmental assets, and creating the foundation for a coordinated sc
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If you agree that physical education should be fun, instructive, and a place where students acquire physical and life skills, then you'll love PE2theMax: Maximize Skills, Participation, Teamwork, and Fun. J.D. Hughes, author of the popular No Standing Around in My Gym, has created 30 never-been-done-before games, tried and tested in the gymnasiums and on the fields and courts of Villa Rica, Georgia, where he teaches elementary school. These games are designed for large groups - anywhere from 30 to 75 students-but can be scaled back easily for smaller class sizes. Each game provides students of all athletic abilities the opportunity to have fun, be active, and acquire movement and sport skills. Here's what you will discover about the games in PE2theMax: No down time. The games are quick and easy to get going, and they'll keep students active for the entire class period. Essentially no prep time. These games are ready to use, simple to understand, and supplemented with clear
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Almost 65 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese-and children are on pace to be significantly fatter in their own adulthood than today's adults. Making matters worse, the number of physical education classes in schools is plummeting as well. So how can schools with diminishing PE budgets be successful? By following the blueprint provided in PE4life: Developing and Promoting Quality Physical Education . This book and DVD package is part inspiration, part toolkit, and part textbook. Those parts combine to make it the ideal resource for anyone involved in developing and promoting quality physical education programs. PE4life includes the following elements: A DVD featuring Phil Lawler, a veteran physical education teacher and coach and the director of the PE4life Academy in Naperville, Illinois PE4life's seven-step action plan for improving a physical education program A wealth of examples of assessments, lesson plans, curricula, and more to use as advocacy to
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Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Healthcare Application draws from the most current research activity in the area to examine physical activity as a prerequisite to the good health and physical performance of children. The book also considers the effects of lack of exercise on children and the relevance of exercise to clinical pediatrics for children with chronic diseases. While Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Healthcare Application emphasizes clinically related issues, it provides comprehensive coverage of the child-exercise-health triad of importance to all professionals serving young people. The text identifies current research in the area of pediatric exercise. It also helps the reader to compare the exercise responses of healthy children to the responses of children with clinical impairments. In turn, readers will recognize the factors that can influence children's activity behavior, trainability, and performance. The book
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With Pedometer Power: Using Pedometers in School and Community , you can use 65 pedometer-based activities for children and adults at home and in physical education, recreation, and after-school settings; promote physical activity-and your program-to parents and the larger community with take-home and special-event activities; and help participants learn about the importance of duration and intensity of physical activity and about the value of maintaining an active lifestyle. The best-selling Pedometer Power is back-updated and expanded with 65 thoroughly field-tested and exciting pedometer activities to motivate participants to become more physically active. This edition includes new and improved activities, more activities for high school and college students, an emphasis on using pedometers both in school and community settings, and updated data that clearly support the effectiveness of pedometers in monitoring physical activity. You can use Pedometer Power in a variety
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With Perceived Exertion for Practitioners: Rating Effort With the OMNI Picture System, you'll have the most up-to-date, innovative way to rate clients' physical exertion in your professional practices. You'll be able to expand your knowledge of perceived exertion as used today by health and fitness specialists and clinical therapeutic practitioners, and you'll learn how to apply the newly developed OMNI Picture System of perceived exertion. Author and highly acclaimed researcher Robert Robertson developed the OMNI Picture System, which uses picture scales to enable exercisers to rate their exertion visually. In this text, Dr. Robertson presents real-life scenarios involving perceptually based exercise assessments and programming using the OMNI Scaling System. The scenarios focus on people with various training and conditioning needs, from improving personal health to developing recreational and competitive fitness. By rating their effort based on pictures of other exercisers, your
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Athletes must be able to make split-second decisions under the pressures of competition, but often this vital learning is left to chance. With Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action , readers gain access to the research foundations behind an innovative decision-training system that has been used successfully for years in training athletes. Certain to become the definitive guide to decision making in sport, this text presents three innovations solidly based in research. The first is the vision-in-action method of recording what athletes actually see when they perform. The second is the quiet eye phenomenon that has attracted considerable media attention. The third innovation is decision training to identify not only how athletes make performance decisions but also how to facilitate visual perception and action to enhance performance. Author Joan Vickers-who discovered the quiet eye and developed the vision-in-action method-takes the next step by integrat
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Sports conditioning has advanced tremendously since the era when a 'no pain, no gain' philosophy guided the training regimens of athletes. Dr. Tudor Bompa pioneered most of these breakthroughs, proving long ago that it's not only how much and how hard an athlete works but also when and what work is done that determines the athlete's conditioning level. In Periodization Training for Sports , Bompa demonstrates how to use periodized workouts in order to peak at optimal times by manipulating six different training phases: anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to power, maintenance, and transition. Coaches and athletes in 32 sports have at their fingertips a proven program that is sure to produce the best results. No more guessing about preseason conditioning, in-season workloads, or appropriate rest and recovery periods; now it's simply a matter of identifying and implementing the information in this book. Presented in a useful format with plenty of ready-mad
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If you handle any aspect of hiring, managing, or motivating staff, this unique resource can save you hours of frustration. Authored by two of the nation's premier athletic administrators, Personnel Management for Sport Directors is loaded with real-life examples of how athletic directors cope with problems in their sport programs. Written specifically for practicing sport directors, this down-to-earth text shows you how to bring out the best in the people you work with. Part I provides practical guidelines for developing your leadership skills, helping you define your program philosophy, goals, and policies to build a strong foundation for your athletic program. In Part II, you'll learn how to make the most of your people skills to help individuals develop their potential. The authors show you how to master the following techniques: Mentoring and educating people Communicating clearly Resolving conflicts Effectively interviewing and evaluating personnel The section on manageme
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Sedentary habits have been identified as a major public health problem in many countries. The timely Physical Activity and Health addresses an unmet need by providing a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between physical activity and health outcomes. Physical Activity and Health is the first textbook to bring together the results of the most important studies in this rapidly changing field and offers a detailed yet concise and clear presentation of key concepts. The text provides a conceptual framework to help readers relate results from single studies or collections of studies to the overall paradigm linking physical activity and physical fitness to health. Written by Claude Bouchard and other leading scientists from around the world, this richly illustrated textbook offers information unmatched in accuracy and reliability. Where other books have simply promoted physical activity for the individual or a population, this book completely integrates and examines the relat
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