Complete Guide to Foam Rolling is your answer to moving better, feeling better, and improving your performance. Foam rolling before, during, or after a workout can get blood flowing, allowing muscles to work more efficiently, and initiate the recovery process to reduce soreness. Backed by scientific research, Complete Guide to Foam Rolling ......
Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource that offers both students and professionals the opportunity to hone their skills to help their clients, starting with the initial consultation and lasting through a long-term relationship. In this text, Jim Taylor and a team of sport psychology experts help practitioners gain a ......
The best-selling authoritative resource returns updated and better than ever. Scuba Diving, Fifth Edition, is the most up-to-date resource for experiencing secure, satisfying dives. Packed with full-color photographs and detailed diving instruction, this is the ideal companion for recreational divers, diving instructors, and students. Veteran ......
Beginning Ballet and the accompanying web resource introduce students to the study of ballet as a performing art and provide instructional support in learning foundational ballet technique. Part of Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series, Beginning Ballet is for students enrolled in a beginning ballet class at the college, university, or high ......
Get an inside view of muscles in action. Like having an X-ray as you work out, Delavier's Sculpting Anatomy for Women features full-color photos and detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for slimming, shaping, and toning the core, butt, and legs. Whether you're looking to eliminate love handles, tighten your glutes, or add definition ......
As a classroom training text for massage therapy students studying for sports massage certification. As a continuing education text for massage therapists completing professional development courses. Also useful as a technical and applied reference for sports massage therapists, physiotherapists, athletic trainers, personal trainers, coaches, and ......
The benefits of strength training for youth are clearly documented. Yet teachers, fitness instructors, and youth coaches are often not sure how to proceed, and they end up watering down adult versions of strength-training programs. That is definitely not the way to go. But authors Avery Faigenbaum and Wayne Westcott, with their 50 years of ......
Some books teach coaches and players what to do; this also explains why. Developed by an all-star cast of coaches selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball Strategies is the most comprehensive resource ever written on the tactical aspects of the game. Providing the content are 18 of the game's top strategists, including ......
Fitness enthusiasts who want to work out with a partner as well as group fitness instructors and personal trainers who lead small- or large-group classes.