IGI Global, 2021. — 499 p. — ISBN: 9781799873006. Esports have attracted considerable attention over the past few years and become an industry that is projected to continue to increase rapidly. Intersecting with the esports industry are organizations and businesses that develop and support the esports game experience. Included are the entrepreneurial spirit of gamers, who are...
Les Éditions Québec Amérique, 2009. — 175 p. — ISBN10: 2764408838, 13 978-2764408834. The Visual Dictionary of Sports and Games describes installations and pieces of equipment used for the most popular sport activities, and presents a selection of widely-known classical games. Convenient and affordable, this book is the perfect tool to explore in depth the universe of sports...
Routledge, 2015. — 480 p. Understanding and developing expertise is an important concern for any researcher or practitioner working in elite or high-performance sports. Whether it's identifying talented young athletes or developing methods for integrating cutting-edge sports science into a daily coaching practice, scientists, coaches, and researchers all need to understand the...
Human Kinetics, 2009. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-0736074919 (print) ISBN: 978-0736085236 (PDF). Meet and learn why older men and women are passionate about fitness and athletics: -Don McNelly has completed more than 150 marathons after the age of 80. -Philippa Raschker has dedicated her life to track and was edged out for the Sullivan Award by swimmer Michael Phelps. -Clarence Bass,...
Springer-Verlag, 2016. — 383 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4939-3019-7, 978-1-4939-3020-3 The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists. The book examines the physics and chemistry of snow and...
Springer, 2015. — 434 p. — (Sports Economics, Management and Policy). — ISBN10: 331917634X, ISBN13: 978-3319176345. This book presents an up-to-date portrait of the characteristics of sport clubs in various European countries and their role in society and the national sport system. Furthermore, it offers a cross-national comparative perspective of sport clubs in twenty European...
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1999, 253 p., ISBN10: 088011861X, ISBN13: 9780880118613 Are you struggling to develop an exercise program? Having trouble sticking with your current program? Dissatisfied with the results you're seeing-or not seeing? Your Personal Trainer gives you customized, expert training advice that will help you get the results you want. And it does so at a...
Lyons Press, 2014 — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0762786008. Anyone with a thirst for adventure and a courageous spirit will be captivated by the tales of endurance, determination, strength of mind, and perseverance recounted in this outstanding compilation. The stories in this book, be they fact or fiction, represent some of the most gripping and illuminating writing ever penned on the...
Springer, 2016. — 99 p. The science of human physical activity and fitness is ripe for a novel theoretical framework that can integrate the ecological, genetic, physiological and psychological factors that influence physical activity in humans. Physical inactivity dominates most developed nations around the world, and is among the leading causes of disease burden and death...
Little A, 2016 — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1503935426 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1503935419 (paperback). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a small but determined band of barrel jumpers risked their lives in one of the world’s most wondrous waterfalls. Only a few survived. By turns a family drama and an action-adventure story, The Age of Daredevils chronicles the lives of the men and...
2nd edition. — Human Kinetics, 2012. — 1396 p. Comprehensive and research based, the second edition of NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training is the resource to rely on for personal training information and guidance. With state-of-the-art knowledge regarding applied aspects of personal training as well as clear explanations of supporting scientific evidence, NSCA’s Essentials...
Revised edition. — Soaring Society of America, 1989. — 154 p. — ISBN10: 1883813026. This training manual is the latest in a long series of publications by the Soaring Society of America designed to promote not only enjoyment, but proficiency and safety in soaring activities.
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 287 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position as a global phenomenon today. Looking at a variety of...
Viking, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9780735221895 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780735221918 (ebook). Jennifer Pharr Davis, a record holder of the FKT (fastest known time) on the Appalachian Trail, reveals the secrets and habits behind endurance as she chronicles her incredible accomplishments in the world of endurance hiking, backpacking, and trail running. With a storyteller's ear for...
Inmersión total es un programa de natación que enseña a desplazarse en el agua con la facilidad de movimiento de los atletas olímpicos.. Este libro es la guía para el estilo libre de natación que combina técnica y práctica en el mismo espíritu que el yoga y el tai chi. Es un libro para todos los nadadores desde el novato que se inicia hasta el veterano. La obra que se divide en...
Dorling Kindersley: 2009. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0756657345. Whether you want to focus on body-sculpting with Pilates, fire up your muscles with strength-training exercises, get a stronger back, sculpt beach-ready abs, or relax and revive with yoga, Home Workout has an exercise program to suit every goal and mood. Featuring four complete routines from each of these books in the...
Springer, 2009. — 682 p.— ISBN: 2287990550. This proceedings volume of the ISEA 2008 examines sports engineering, an interdisciplinary subject which encompasses and integrates not only sports science and classical engineering but also aims to bridge the gap between the analysis of the equipment and the athlete himself. The areas of interest include the mechanics, biomechanics...
2012. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1408140810. Dave Farrar was like most other gamblers. Fairly low stakes and fascinated by sport, he loved taking on the bookies. And he'd got to a point where he'd started to win more than he lost. He'd started to believe that he had gambling worked out. But then it all went wrong. Dave's brief downward spiral came about because the girl he thought he was...
Human Kinetics, 2022. — 1282 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4925-9335-5. NSCA’s Essentials of Sport Science features contributions from 52 globally recognized experts and thought leaders from the field of sports science. It is the only resource to go beyond sports science’s foundations — physiology, biochemistry, biomechanics, nutrition, and skill acquisition — to address the use of...
2nd ed. — Personal Trainer Development Center, 2015. — 242 p. — ASIN: B00THJN2Z0. Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers", it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income.
2nd ed. — Personal Trainer Development Center, 2015. — 85 p. — ASIN: B00THJN2Z0. Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers", it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income.
2nd ed. — Personal Trainer Development Center, 2015. — 185 p. — ASIN: B00THJN2Z0. Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers", it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income.
2nd ed. — Personal Trainer Development Center, 2015. — 187 p. — ASIN: B00THJN2Z0. Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers", it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income.
Hatherleigh Press, 2014. — 176 p. — (Body Sculpting Bible). — ISBN: 978-1578264780. Unlike traditional dumbbells, the true power of the kettlebell lies in its unique shape. Because the kettlebell's center of mass is extended beyond the hand, more muscle groups are utilized in the swinging and movement of a kettlebell as opposed to the lifting of dumbbells, thus producing a much...
Harper Design, 2017. — 120 p. For every dedicated sports fan, a unique lifetime list of the 101 most important games, matches, venues, and events around the world, illustrated with color photographs and collated by a pair of Sports Illustrated veterans. For more than twenty years, Rob Fleder and Steve Hoffman captured the thrill of numerous sporting competitions while working...
2nd edition. — Human Kinetics, 2022. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4925-9290-7. High-Performance Training for Sports changed the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance when first published in 2014. Now the second edition builds on that groundbreaking work with the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols, and programs for developing today’s athletes....
Human Kinetics, 2016. — 264. — ISBN: 978-1492513810. Music has been intertwined with exercise and sport for many decades, and recent advancements in digital technology and personal listening devices have significantly strengthened that bond. Applying Music in Exercise and Sport combines contemporary research, evidence-based practice, and specific recommendations to help...
2nd edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2018. — 354 p. — ISBN: 9781284124880 Leadership and Management in Athletic Training: An Integrated Approach, Second Edition is designed to help athletic trainers effectively integrate the art of leadership with the science of management. While the Board of Certification (BOC) Role Delineation Study and Practice Analysis has identified...
Voyageur Press, 2008. — 130 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7603-3063-0; ISBN10: 0-7603-3063-8. Here is the ultimate resource for weekend warriors and military simulators, helping you develop competencies in understanding the art and science of MilSim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst who has trained U.S. and foreign troops around the world, this paintball and airsoft...
St. Martin's Essentials, 2021. — 256 p. — ISBN: 125078719X, 9781250787194. Strong and Lean — Mark Lauren's follow-up to his best-selling book — You Are Your Gym — uses two decades of unparalleled experience to accomplish what most people thought impossible: The ability to immediately begin your workout wherever you are — from living rooms to hotel rooms to yards — and finish 9...
10th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-1-259-82398-5. Lumpkin's Introduction to Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport provides students with an exciting opportunity to discover the diversity of physical education, exercise science, and sport, as well as the wealth of careers available in these fields. Additionally, this text provides the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-1632204981, ISBN: 978-1632208675. Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? The Endurance Handbook teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many productive years. Dr. Philip Maffetone’s approach to...
Human Kinetics, 2022. — 1022 p. — ISBN: 9781492599715. The need for qualified high school strength and conditioning professionals has never been greater. Whether following the framework for long-term athletic development or teaching weight training as a lifelong fitness activity, you need to offer both the environment and instructional skills to safely develop strong...
Human Kinetics, 2022. — 422 p. — ISBN: 9781492599708. The need for qualified high school strength and conditioning professionals has never been greater. Whether following the framework for long-term athletic development or teaching weight training as a lifelong fitness activity, you need to offer both the environment and instructional skills to safely develop strong...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — 277 p. — ISBN: 978-0544484122 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0544444744 (ebook). A captivating memoir of one woman’s attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huskies with whom she shares a fascinating and inextricable bond At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that’s where...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 2010. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1848853065. Leaving the security of friends, work, and a wife, Alastair Vere Nicoll joined a team of young men to harness the katabatic winds and haul and kite-surf across Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, most violent continent on earth. Not since Shackleton nearly perished attempting the same thing in his Endurance expedition...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2017. — 333 p. — (ASSER Law Series). — ISBN10: 9462651582. — ISBN13: 978-9462651586. This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level. It describes the organisation and regulatory frameworks of...
Human Kinetics, 2022. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4925-9899-2. The Anatomy of Speed is a resource like no other. Bill Parisi, the internationally recognized expert and founder of Parisi Speed School, delves deep into the physiological mechanisms of speed through in-depth interviews with top experts and researchers in the field. The text provides scientifically proven exercises and...
Edmonton: 1977. — 163 p. The Physical Education Resource Book is designed to serve only as a reference source for pertinent information on the eleven sports that will be staged at the XI Commonwealth Games. The events and the regulations regarding each competition are specific to the Commonwealth Games and should not be confused with the Olympic Games or the Pan American Games....
Impact Press, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1925384376 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1925384383 (ebook). Born to nomadic parents and humble beginnings, Luke Richmond grew up running wild and free in the Australian outback. After finishing school, he joined the Australian Army and served his country overseas as a qualified infantry soldier – an experience that sparked in him an...
Www.RobertsonTrainigSystems.com, 2007. 220 p. Understanding the knee joint, strength training, mobility, soft tissue work, rehabilitation, and diet for healthy knees!
Hatherleigh Press, 2016 — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1578266029, ISBN: 978-1578266036 (eBook). The search to find one’s own limits and surpass them is what defines us as human beings. By consciously choosing to walk the path of most resistance, we come to a better understanding of ourselves, and our potential for physical, mental and emotional growth. And nowhere is this universal...
USA, Jeppesen Sanderson Inc., 1995. — 323 p. — ISBN10: 0884872998 ISBN13: 9780884872993. Soaring: Private and Commercial Flight Manual by Jeppesen Sanderson Inc. is a great supplement from SSA to the FAA's Glider Flying Handbook. These two books together are a must for any potential glider pilot.
Menasha Ridge Press, 2010. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-0897328968. In March 1990, Will Steger completed what no man had ever before attempted: the crossing of Antarctica, a total of 3,700 miles, on foot. Lured by the challenge and the beauty of Earth's last great wilderness, and determined to focus the world's attention on the frozen continent now that its ecological future hangs in...
VeloPress, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1937715779, ISBN13: 978-1937715779. Work In shares new mental and physical recovery techniques for athletes who give it all in every workout. Yoga and recovery coach Erin Taylor gives athletes practical tools and an integrated plan for real recovery from training-and everyday life. By making yoga and meditation easy for anyone, Taylor gives...
Teamwork & Teamplay. — 22 p. (Author and year not specified). This booklet contains an overview of interesting ways that you can make a hand featherball part of your social recreation, fitness or sports program. The title 'Funderbird' is used when discussing the more playful games associated with a featherball. Peteca is used to describe the South American version of the...
Crowood Press, 2016. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1785000416. Many coaches train primarily for strength — pressing, pulling, and squatting — but without converting this maximal strength to speed and power. However, the "holy grail" for most athletes is power, and plyometrics is the best way to achieve this. Plyometrics for Speed and Power will guide you through the basics of plyometric...
Myriad, 2011. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0956559921; ISBN13: 978-0956559920. From the USA's Big 4 to Pele's Beautiful Game, sport is a major player in global cultural relations and commerce. Sport fuels the media, stimulates commerce, bolsters national identity, is informed by and in turn shapes global diplomacy and international relations, and celebrates the competitive (and often...
A textbook on special strength training for different types of argument. contains examples of programs and methods of Professor Verkhoshansky. (processing a scan floating on the network, alignment!) From the leading scientist and expert in Sport Training, his last book: a milestone, the point of no return in the Strength Training. The most complete and up to date book in...
3rd edition. — SLACK Incorporated, 2018. — 395 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61711-092-4 The Third Edition of Athletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success by Andrew P. Winterstein builds upon previous editions in providing a mix of foundational athletic training knowledge coupled with human interest information to help guide students in their decision-making process when...
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