Learning to play volleyball has never been more effective, or fun, than with Volleyball Fundamentals, 2nd Edition. Parents and coaches immediately benefit from solid foundations and practical tips on teaching every aspect of the sport. Volleyball Fundamentals teaches the basics of the sport to ensure players are ready to take to the court. This ......
Improve Strength and Reduce Pain With Functional Movement
Vital Core Training is more than just another core training book; it is an indispensable resource with insights and strategies that will empower you to better assess clients' needs, enhance program design, and implement core movement training that will yield results for individuals and groups of all ages and abilities. Leslee Bender-the creator ......
How to Apply Science, Technology, and Data to Maximize Performance
For years strength coaches relied solely on one-repetition maximum percentages to select loads for specific phases of program design. Today, however, more and more coaches have turned to velocity-based training for its pinpoint accuracy in measuring athletes' explosive power through the monitoring of bar and body speeds. As one of the first books ......
Using Physical Activity and Sport to Teach Personal and Social Responsibility shows you how to implement a character education program in your school or community organization. Authors Watson and Clocksin offer an ideal companion text to Don Hellison's classic Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity. In this text, ......
Urban Physical Education targets the teaching circumstances and conditions of urban schools with innovative instructional practices and culturally diverse and contemporary activities. You'll find games and modified sports from around the world as well as sport and performance activities such as urban dances, parkour, urban golf, freestyle ......
The practice of universal design-of making a product or environment accessible to all individuals-has been around for a long time. But, until now, that practice has never been explored in depth in the field of physical education. This groundbreaking text provides a much-needed link between universal design and physical education, extending ......
All yoga instructors use cues as they teach their classes. But sometimes these cues can be vague, misleading or even anatomically incorrect. That makes Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga a vital resource for yoga instructors. The text focuses on dispelling the misconceptions surrounding the biomechanics of the pelvis. It ......
Textbook for graduate and upper-undergraduate courses in organizational theory and organizational behavior as it relates to sport and sport/recreation management degree programs; reference for practicing sport managers around the world.
Understanding Fascia, Tensegrity, and Myofascial Trigger Points elucidates the fundamental principles and concepts underpinning fascia-focused therapies. Fascia science expert John Sharkey offers analogies, anecdotes, comparisons, and language that simplify complex topics for fascia-focused therapists and movement practitioners.
