With expert analysis of technique for more than 100 resistance training exercises, Effective Strength Training is just the guide you need to ensure these exercises are performed correctly and with minimal risk. Drawing on the latest scientific principles and theories related to resistance training, Effective Strength Training provides the 'how' and the 'why' behind the proper performance of popular upper-body, lower-body, and trunk exercises. By understanding the purpose and correct form for each exercise, you can gain the full benefit each exercise provides and avoid injury. Whether you teach strength training or do it yourself, you'll find new and helpful information that you can put to use. Douglas Brooks, one of the top personal trainers in the United States, questions the safety of controversial exercises such as the upright row, dipping movements, cable exercises, and machine chest presses. After putting these exercises to the test of objective scientific evaluation, he then reco
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Updated and greatly expanded � with new modules that cover all the clinical proficiencies of the 1999 NATA Athletic Training Education Competencies � this third edition of Ken Knight's popular text is better than ever. In fact, it's the most flexible clinical education tool available today to athletic training students. Assessing Clinical Proficiencies in Athletic Training: A Modular Approach, third edition, sports a new title and is organized in an easy-to-use modular format. It now contains 119 clinical modules � including 38 new modules � organized into 21 areas of clinical interest and spread over 4 levels of competencies. Each module contains learning objectives, competencies, and helpful references - plus space for athletic training instructors to record student progress. The book strongly supports peer teaching � a system that helps students remember subject matter long after the 'test' and enhances their knowledge through the teaching of other students. The modules require stud
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Student-Centered Physical Education presents over 100 fun physical activities that not only promote student fitness and skill development but also build the foundation for a physically active life. The authors' modular approach allows teachers to mix and match activities in order to achieve specific goals, creating multiple opportunities within each class period for students to succeed. Authors Timothy Smith and Nicholas Cestaro, who together have more than 50 years of teaching experience, have developed a student-centered approach to physical education to replace the outdated, subject-driven approach. By focusing on the needs of the preadolescent student rather than on sports or calisthenics, this proven program challenges exclusivity, boredom, and gender bias. Their strategies and activities make physical education relevant to your students and motivate them to participate in physical activity, both in the gym and after school. Part I, 'A Student-Centered Modular Approach,' helps you
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They're colorful, big, and enticing. In recent years, innovative teachers have introduced the Swiss Ball, previously used primarily for therapy, into educational settings. Now you can use this unique tool to help children develop balance, coordination, rhythm, and fitness skills. In Kids on the Ball the authors, three physical educators and a physical therapist: explain the benefits of using Swiss Balls, describe activities using the ball, include step-by-step instructions, reproducibles, and written objectives, discuss modifications for special needs students (mainstreamed or not), address safety procedures, management, and care of the ball, provide curriculum ideas for incorporating the Swiss Ball into your present program, integrate Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles, and list content standards and benchmarks (NASPE and APENS). The book presents 23 complete lesson plans and 118 activities that have been successfully used by teachers in physi
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Teachers no longer have to adapt standard physical fitness tests to accommodate students with special needs. The all-new Brockport Physical Fitness Test is specifically designed to test the fitness of youths from ages 10 through 17 that have various disabilities. This manual and related materials (see 'Companion Resources' section below provide teachers with everything they need to know to easily administer the test. Years in preparation, the Brockport Test was developed through Project Target, a research study funded by the U.S. Department of Education and designed to develop a health-related, criterion-referenced physical fitness test. The manual presents all test items that comprise the Brockport Test, including: a written description of the test items, how they are to be administered, what equipment is needed, ways of scoring the test, number of trials required, test modifications, and recommendations for easy test administration. The manual's unique personalized approach allows
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Experts recognize the value of an appropriate preparation (warm-up) and a specific conclusion (cool-down) for physical activity. However, teachers, exercise leaders and coaches generally have not had access to the information they need to correctly lead and teach these key ingredients of active lessons. Now, these long-neglected aspects have finally been addressed. In Warming Up and Cooling Down, leading authorities Jo Harris and Jill Elbourn provide scientifically sound yet practical and fun ideas for use in any setting � be it school, sports clubs or youth clubs. The principles and proposals for action identified in this book are highly relevant to children from Key Stages 1 to 4 (ages 5 to 16). The book provides theoretical information about warming up and cooling down and a comprehensive range of practical, proven examples that are relevant and safe for young people. The text also helps teachers, coaches and community providers to develop their understanding of: safe and effective
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Fitness Education for Children provides a multidisciplinary approach to teaching health-related fitness at the elementary school level. Much more than just a games and activities book, this comprehensive resource helps practitioners build successful programs that will meet the challenging health demands of the 21st century. Written by the coauthor of the nationally known Heart Smart Program, Fitness Education for Children emphasizes the need to make developing healthy lifestyles a team effort. In order to reinforce the benefits of physical activity both in and out of the school setting, the book presents ideas that involve not only physical education teachers but also: classroom teachers, school lunchroom personnel, health service professionals, parents, and community members. Loaded with ready-to-use information, Fitness Education for Children is a practical, time-saving resource. It helps you plan and implement a fitness education program by providing: a sample yearly plan and l
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This book has been a big hit with physical educators since it came out in 1989. Now it's available in a new edition that keeps all the best features of the original, adds new material, and improves the presentation, all while making the information more affordable! The new edition is split into two books--one for the elementary level and another for middle school--so you pay only for the lesson plans you need. Each book still provides developmentally appropriate lesson plans for every day of the school year plus information on how to organize classes to best implement the lessons. You can use the time you save on developing and organizing content to focus on providing quality teacher-learner interaction. Both new books include an introductory section that explains basic motor development concepts and effective teaching strategies. With this background information fresh in your mind, it's easy to apply the ready-to-use lesson plans for maximum effectiveness. Other helpful features new t
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Packed with concise yet thorough notes, GCSE Physical Education: A Revision Guide is the only book that General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) students and teachers will ever need for exam success. Written by an experienced GCSE PE teacher, it is the only revision guide that includes 'quick test' questions and actual past examination questions (with answers) from all four exam boards. This feature enables students to confirm their understanding of key topics throughout the course. The book is organized into four parts. Part I, 'The Human Body,' outlines the basic structure of the human body and its key systems as well as the effect of exercise on those systems. Part II, 'Training and Fitness,' covers the importance of fitness, training's effect on fitness, and common injuries � their causes and how to treat them. Part III, 'Coaching and Performance,' shows how athletes learn skills and how this knowledge can be applied to teaching. Part IV, 'Sport in Society,' examines the e
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When educator Cathie Summerford started teaching sixth-graders in 1993, she wanted to create an interdisciplinary physical education program � one that builds healthy minds as well as bodies and prepares children for a lifetime of wellness and fitness. She broke new ground with a theme-based approach to physical education that children and teachers love. In PE-4-ME: Teaching Lifelong Health and Fitness, you'll find Cathie's blueprint for a unique K-12 program that integrates physical activity with movement concepts, social skills, stress reduction, nutrition, school safety, and drug resistance education. Cathie stresses brain-compatible learning - the ability of physical activity to enhance cognitive function - in all of her lessons to maximize the benefits of her integrated approach. This valuable resource spells out a yearlong plan that is fun-filled, action-packed, and easy to implement. It's built around weekly themes that help you organize and present key health and fitness concep
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If you want to improve your students' ability to learn movement combinations, teach dance, and create choreography, then help them get in touch with the musicality in their movements with Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Rhythmic Training for Dancers and its companion CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, help dancers develop a better understanding of musical time and phrasing, which directly correspond with their dance activities. These materials provide an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the perceptual barrier between dancers and musicians by explaining concepts from both perspectives. Students will: learn basic concepts of musical time as they apply to dance technique and choreography, become aware of how they intuitively use musical time in their dancing, and explore rhythmic theory from the musician's perspective. The book follows a step-by-step approach, introducing only a few concepts at a time so that students will comprehend the material. Special exercises
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Teachers who spend 10 to 14 hours a day in the gym and on the fields teaching and coaching students � and then have to prepare and submit lesson plans � simply don't have time to write, much less search for, new ideas for lessons and document how their programs comply with compulsory standards. Now, with Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 7-12, you can finally get all the material you need from just one source, including a CD-ROM that makes it easy to customize the material to meet your needs. This comprehensive collection of teacher-tested unit plans, lesson plans, and teaching and assessment tools will save any secondary school physical education teacher invaluable planning and preparation time. Each lesson plan moves toward written goals from the moment students walk onto the floor until the moment they leave. The lessons integrate physical, cognitive, and social skills in a natural sequence, allowing plenty of opportunity for repetition to help students ingest the materia
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This helpful video demonstrates how to perform superficial release techniques including superficial translations, J-stroking, and skin rolling; general release techniques, including the cross-hand technique, the arm pull, and the leg pull; and several specific muscle techniques for treating deep restrictions in the upper and lower extremity fascia. The video also demonstrates sample myofascial treatment sequences for treating common restriction sites in scar tissue, the upper extremity, and the lower extremity.
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For many years, various health care professionals have disagreed about the treatment of spine-injured athletes at the scene. How should protective athletic equipment, such as chin straps and helmets, be managed? When can the equipment be removed? What is the safest way to immobilize and transport the athlete? Because each health care group has its own protocols, there have been no standard guidelines for managing a suspected spine injury on the field and avoiding secondary injury � until now. The Spine Injury Management Video is an important and visual reference that provides new information on treating spine-injured athletes and demonstrates step-by-step strategies for ideal care. These techniques can be applied to injured athletes in a variety of sports including football, lacrosse, soccer, and gymnastics. This video is based on the landmark report 'Prehospital Care of the Spine-Injured Athlete: A Document From the Inter-Association Task Force for Appropriate Care of the Spine-Injur
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Resistance Training Instruction: Upper Body begins with an examination of how the shoulder girdle is designed to function during an upper-body exercise. The video then demonstrates exercises that focus on the larger pushing and pulling movements. Pushing and pressing exercises that target the chest, anterior deltoid, and associated triceps are presented at several angles with numerous variations. Dumbbell presses, barbell presses, cable presses, machine presses, and Swiss ball even presses and push-offs are demonstrated in this video. Many types of pulling and rowing exercises and variations are also demonstrated and are divided according to their associated joint movement. Developed and hosted by resistance-training expert Everett Aaberg, the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series walks trainers through the steps of instructing clients during resistance training. The videos demonstrate the proper techniques for the participant and proper instructional methods for the fitness pro
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Resistance Training Instruction: Trunk focuses on strengthening and developing the trunk and core muscles. The core muscles, or 'inner unit,' work interdependently with the outer abdominal and oblique musculature to stabilize the spine and produce a variety of movements. The video demonstrates how to correctly perform and instruct numerous resistance and Swiss ball exercises to strengthen the core muscles and trunk region. Developed and hosted by resistance-training expert Everett Aaberg, the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series walks trainers through the steps of instructing clients during resistance training. The videos demonstrate the proper techniques for the participant and proper instructional methods for the fitness professional. The three videos, which cover the lower body, trunk, and upper body, allow trainers to watch and learn the proper exercise and training techniques for all of the exercises in the book Resistance Training Instruction and many more exercises not i
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Resistance Training Instruction: Lower Body demonstrates exercises from the hip down. Since the hip's primary function is to work with the knee and ankle during compound movements, numerous variations of squats, presses, and lunges are presented. Several exercises that isolate lower-body movements are also included, as these more specific exercises may be equally important for accomplishing a variety of goals. Developed and hosted by resistance-training expert Everett Aaberg, the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series walks trainers through the steps of instructing clients during resistance training. The videos demonstrate the proper techniques for the participant and proper instructional methods for the fitness professional. The three videos, which cover the lower body, trunk, and upper body, allow trainers to watch and learn the proper exercise and training techniques for all of the exercises in the book Resistance Training Instruction and many more exercises not included in th
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Made from North American hardrock maple Dowels are turned several times during the manufacturing process removing as little as 1/8'. This allows the wood to stabilize before final assembly. 48'
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