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Hands-On Yoga Assists: A Teacher’s Guide to the Rubber Band Method® provides yoga teachers training on how to offer safe touch in the classroom. The content covers the benefits of assists, safety, stances to use, how to read tissues, and how to safeguard touch for those who may have suffered trauma.

Principles and Methods of Adapted Physical Education, 13th Edition, is an evidence-based, pedagogically focused resource with practical information and resources to prepare educators to deliver effective, legally sound, and evidence-based adapted physical education services. It incorporates the Adapted Physical Education National Standards.

Over 70 Workouts to Achieve Your Training Goals

Understanding Fascia, Tensegrity, and Myofascial Trigger Points explores fascia science and practical applications for therapists and movement practitioners. The text is complemented by rich photography, detailed anatomy drawings, and an analysis of referred pain patterns.

The Concise Book of the Moving Body, Second Edition, details human anatomy, including the musculoskeletal system, joints, nerves, and everyday movements. The text is fully illustrated, with more than 500 full-color drawings.

Hatha Yoga describes how to create safe, fulfilling, and holistic Hatha Yoga practices for different levels of ability and goals. Get sample sequences and practical descriptions of over 200 asanas, with detailed instructions, alignment cues, contraindications, and suggested modifications.

Bodybuilding Anatomy gives you an inside look at how to build, sculpt, and refine muscle with detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations of 68 targeted exercises for the chest, shoulders, back, arms, abdominals, and legs. Then get advice on how to pose your refined physique for competition.

Complete Conditioning for Basketball provides training expertise from the best strength and conditioning coaches in the sport. Total body strength, power, explosiveness, speed, and agility are enhanced through exercises, drills, and seasonal training plans to maximize players' physical potential.

Aquatic Fitness Professional Manual is the primary preparation resource for the certification exam of the Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA) and is the most comprehensive guide available for designing and leading exercise sessions in the pool.

Complete Guide to Landmine Training is the ultimate resource for everything you need to know about landmine training. Featuring 82 exercises and 35 workouts, you'll be able to create versatile, efficient, joint-friendly workouts with this popular training device.

Governance in Sport: Analysis and Application, Second Edition, examines governance within sport organizations at all levels of sport and across industry sectors. Drawing from both analytical and applied perspectives, students will learn principles of good governance and ethical decision making.

This book is uniquely focused on the growth and maturation of children and adolescents in relation to physical performance. The latest edition explores an overview of youth sports, including the benefits and risks as well as efforts aimed at talent development.

The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss provides a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to help clients achieve long-term weight loss success. The text considers decades of research from experts in the field and embraces a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the obesity epidemic.

Practical Fueling for Endurance Athletes provides practical, science-based nutritional information and strategies that lead to long-term health and superior performance in running, cycling, swimming, rowing, obstacle course racing, multiday events, and Nordic skiing.

Longevity in the gym begins with knowing how to prevent injuries before the injuries interrupt your training. Rock Solid Resilience shows you how to train so you can work out for a lifetime while pushing your limits and meeting your goals.

Learn how to lift safely and effectively with this step-by-step guide, perfect for beginners. Discover the core principles of strength training, follow clear photo tutorials, and get expert advice on avoiding common mistakes with the four essential lifts.

Patient-Centered Care in Sports Medicine helps students achieve competency in patient-centered care. The text offers strategies to advocate, engage, and communicate with patients from varying social backgrounds, and it includes self-assessment tools, practical forms, and cultural background information.

ABLE Bodies Balance Training is an activity-based program designed to improve balance and mobility for fit and frail older adults. There are 137 activities and exercises to improve flexibility, posture, core stability, strength, mobility, balance, cardiorespiratory endurance, and brain health.

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.

Sport Skill Acquisition considers the expanding knowledge in motor behavior, with a focus on application, blending major theoretical perspectives with other performance essentials to support athletic performance. The it depends approach is employed to select a strategy for each particular context.

Contemporary Sport Management, Eighth Edition, examines core functions, career opportunities, and current trends in sport management conveyed by a diverse team of contributors. Reflecting the latest information and examples from the field, the text covers the essentials for entering the profession.

"This book includes instructions and drills for proper rowing technique and corrections to common errors. It also provides workout examples and a 6-week training program to incorporate rowing into the reader's overall fitness plan"--

NSCA's Guide to Program Design, Second Edition, is the definitive resource for designing scientifically based training programs. Developed by the NSCA, it provides the latest information, strategies, and insights from the leading experts in the field of strength and conditioning.

"This book is an authoritative, practical guide to designing resistance training programs for lacrosse. It provides principles of sport-specific resistance training, exercise techniques, and sample programs that address the specific needs of different lacrosse positions at the high school, college, and professional levels during the off-season, preseason, in-season, and postseason. It shows how resistance training helps develop key lacrosse skills, reduce athletes' risk of injury, and improve overall performance on the field by enhancing strength, power, speed, agility, endurance, and mental toughness"--

Cultural Equity in Physical Education amplifies crucial issues that affect students from racialized groups, provides culturally aware teaching strategies, and addresses the litany of racist practices (both unintentional and overt) directed toward Black, American Indian, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous youths.

Contemporary Sport Management, Eighth Edition, examines core functions, career opportunities, and current trends in sport management conveyed by a diverse team of contributors. Reflecting the latest information and examples from the field, the text covers the essentials for entering the profession.

Fitness Facility Management provides an in-depth look at the challenges and rewards of managing contemporary health and fitness facilities, including boutique and corporate facilities, campus recreation centers, community recreation, and franchised fitness clubs.