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Strength Training Anatomy for Athletes offers a wide variety of exercises for athletes who want to get stronger for their sport. Covering warm-up, recovery, injury prevention, and programming for 43 sports, it is a comprehensive and practical guide to optimizing athletic performance.

Shows you how to improve performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement. This title features 82 of the most effective multisport exercises with step-by-step descriptions and full colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the muscles in action.

Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook offers scientifically supported and experience-based guidelines to help you have your best show ever. There are detailed posing tips, food and fluid plans, strategies for contest weekend, and postshow recovery tactics.

With 156 detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations, Golf Anatomy, Second Edition, depicts 72 exercises proven to improve strength, power, and range of motion. Golfers will add distance to drives, consistency to the short game, and accuracy to putts.

Increase shot power and on-court speed and agility with the most comprehensive tennis conditioning resource available. Combining 204 drills and exercises with online access to 56 video demonstrations, the only strength and conditioning resource endorsed by the USTA will help you outlast the competition.

Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, written by internationally recognized low back specialist Stuart McGill, guides readers through the assessment and treatment of low back pain, providing evidence-based research on the best methods of rehabilitation and prevention of future injury.

A guide to explosive power training for athletes, coaches and strength and conditioning experts. Exploring the principles of high-intensity plyometric training, power assessments and the development of both long and short-term conditioning programmes, it contains detailed photo sequences, step-by-step instruction and intensity guidelines.

A guide for any archer wishing to improve their accuracy, increase consistency and achieve competitive success. Featuring the in-depth instruction, insight and advice from the world's top coaches and archers, it is suitable for those who compete with the recurve or compound bow.

A compilation of advice on swimming, in which experts discuss their areas of expertise in each aspect of coaching the sport. There are specific techniques for each swimming stroke and style, as well as detailed training programmes for every event. Suggestions for practice sessions are included.

An instruction manual for skiers seeking the developments in technique and technology that includes techniques for ski designs and tips for fine-tuning boots for specific styles and terrain. It offers a tactical approach to applying technique to meet the needs for various conditions and ski objectives, such as ice, powder, moguls and steeps.

Featuring the underlying strategies, planning and tactical skills required to take basic movements to a higher level, this video should be useful to any jujitsu artist. The reader is introduced to combat phases versus ranges and is shown how to attack and win from any phase.

Rowing Science explains and applies up-to-date scientific research across all aspects of the sport to optimize rowing skills and performance, making it essential reading for serious rowers, coaches, and rowing scientists.

Achieving Excellence offers a variety of mental training strategies to help athletes, coaches, and performers of all kinds achieve a winning mindset. The book explores sport psychology concepts and provides practical, proven strategies to elevate, enhance, and sustain performance.

NSCA's Guide to High School Strength and Conditioning equips you to deliver the highest-quality strength and conditioning program in the high school setting-whether you are a strength and conditioning professional, physical education teacher, sport coach, or administrator.

Strength Training for Soccer will help you create a soccer-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position-goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards-develop strength and power that will prepare them for the demands of a game.

Motor Learning and Performance, Sixth Edition, constructs a conceptual model of factors that influence motor performance, outlines how motor skills are acquired and retained with practice, and shows how to apply those concepts to a variety of real-world settings.

Periodization of Strength Training for Sports demonstrates how to use periodized workouts to peak at optimal times by manipulating strength training variables through six training phases-anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to specific strength, maintenance, and peaking.

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.

Soccer Anatomy combines step-by-step instructions and full-color anatomical illustrations to convey proper form of the 79 soccer-specific exercises that increase speed, strength, and agility as well as prevent injury. Exercises are arranged anatomically, making it easy to target specific muscle groups.

Elite athletes have long relied on personalised stretching programmes to improve flexibility and prevent injury. This book features full-colour anatomical illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 40 of the effective stretches to eliminate pain, alleviate muscle soreness, improve balance and flexibility and prevent common injuries.

The Sport Business Handbook provides perspectives from more than 100 of the most prominent figures in the sport business industry. Plentiful examples and stories, including insiders' views of major sports deals, make this book a bible of information for those looking to advance their careers in this field.

Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training presents a compilation of evidence-based research on high-intensity interval training, followed by application and programming for 20 of the most popular U.S. and international individual and team sports.

Learn to master essential volleyball skills such as serving, receiving, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging. With this book's coverage of scoring systems, rules, rotations, and common tactics, it's never been easier to teach or learn the game.

Hockey Plays and Strategies features plays, systems, and strategies for gameplay in the offensive, neutral, and defensive zones. With tactics for all players in each of the various zones, you can prepare players to hit the ice with confidence and dominate their opponents.

The New Power Eating delivers a science-based nutrition plan that explains what to eat and when and how to customize your diet for your physique, performance, and energy needs. This is the authoritative guide for adding muscle and cutting fat.

Hockey Anatomy presents 96 exercises with 68 variations to improve on-ice performance. Highly detailed anatomical drawings highlight muscle groups used during exercise and during game action.

Suitable for active people, this book provides comprehensive coverage for athletes and fitness exercisers alike. It contains information on the nutrition needs of both sexes in several sports and also includes information on supplements, energy drinks, and nutrient timing as well as advice for athletes who have undergone gastric bypass surgery.

Tennis Anatomy brings your game to life with over 194 full-color anatomical illustrations depicting strokes and movements, strengthening exercises, and injury-prevention exercises. The 72 step-by-step exercises are arranged anatomically for shoulders, arms and wrists, chest, back, core, and legs, with explanations of how each affects performance.

Dumbbell Training, Second Edition, will help you incorporate dumbbells into your training routines. It offers more than 110 exercises and 66 ready-to-use programs for increased power, speed, agility, and balance.

ACSM's Worksite Health Handbook, Second Edition, has been thoroughly updated with the latest research and expanded to better support the business case for worksite programs. The text provides information on important contextual issues, evidence of effectiveness, assessment, program design, and strategies for encouraging employee involvement.