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From breathing to inversions to standing poses, this title shows you how specific muscles respond to the movements of the joints; how alterations of a pose can enhance or reduce effectiveness and how the spine, breathing and body position are all fundamentally linked.

Jack Daniels was named the world's best running coach by Runner's World magazine, and his best-selling book, Daniels' Running Formula, shows you why. Whether your race of choice is the 800 meters, the marathon, or anything in between, Daniels' Running Formula, Third Edition, offers a proven recipe for success.

Focusing on sport and exercise psychology, this book provides a thorough introduction to key concepts in the field and draws connections between research and practice and captures the dynamism of sport and exercise.

With detailed descriptions, step-by-step instruction and stunning full-colour anatomical illustrations, this title takes you inside the exercises and programmes that tone the body, stabilise the core, improve balance and increase flexibility.

Written by Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, a leading authority on muscle hypertrophy, Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy provides strength and conditioning professionals, researchers, and instructors with a definitive resource for information regarding muscle hypertrophy.

Lets you experience the physical benefits and body awareness from hatha yoga - one of the most popular form of yoga. This book presents nearly 650 full-color photos to visually demonstrate 77 standard poses from hatha yoga that apply to major hatha styles including Iyengar, Astanga, Anusara, and Bikram.

Leading fitness expert Brad Schoenfeld shows how to complete a total-body transformation with six months of targeted, periodized routines. The M.A.X. Muscle Plan 2.0 presents scientifically proven plans to help you increase lean body mass, build muscle, and achieve your best body ever.

Presents a comprehensive and an efficient approach to marathoning. This book shows how to complement your running workouts with strength, core, flexibility, and form training; implement nutrition and hydration strategies and recovery techniques; and taper properly to reach peak performance.

Best-selling author Frederic Delavier introduces 49 programs for sculpting every region of the body. Featuring 157 exercises targeted to the back, shoulders, abs, buttocks, legs, arms, and chest, Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy Workouts includes 140 photos and 290 remarkable anatomical illustrations.

Complete Guide to TRX®Suspension Training®, Second Edition, offers 100 of the most effective Suspension Training® exercises. With 24 ready-to-use programs, 40 variations, and extensive training advice, this book is a must-have for anyone seeking to maximize their workout—and their results.

Basketball Skills & Drills is your guide to mastering the basics of basketball, including footwork, ball handling, player positioning, post and perimeter play, rebounding, plus offensive and defensive individual and team tactics.

A training guide that covers the most popular race distance, including the 5K, 10K and half marathon. It contains detailed plans for specific distances as well as expert advice on balancing training and recovery, cross-training, nutrition, tapering and training beyond the age 40.

Renowned kettlebell expert Steve Cotter shares his training secrets in this authoritative guide. Packed with 95 basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises, Kettlebell Training provides complete coverage on getting started with kettlebells, creating customized sport-specific routines, and conditioning the whole body.

The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.

The Language of Coaching examines how instruction, feedback, and cueing can have a significant impact on training and performance outcomes. The book offers a comprehensive collection of cueing frameworks to help coaches better communicate with athletes in any sport.

Tudor O. Bompa, the pioneer of periodization training, and Carlo A. Buzzichelli, one of the world's foremost experts on training methods, use scientific support and their expertise to teach you how to maximize training gains with periodization.

Advance your mountain biking experience even further with Mastering Mountain Bike Skills, Third Edition. Learn from the firsthand advice and personal experiences of world champion Brian Lopes. The third edition features more high-quality photos, improved instruction, and new techniques and tips for every riding style.

Going far beyond standard pull-ups, push-ups, and squats, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy presents 156 unique exercises that work every muscle in the body. Detailed anatomical artwork accompanies step-by-step instructions for performing each exercise anytime, anywhere, without the need for equipment or machines.

Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Third Edition, details the art and science of adventure leadership. This thorough update of the groundbreaking text covers the latest research, issues, and trends in adventure education and provides a new model for building core competencies.

Michael Boyle presents the concepts, methods and programmes that maximise athletes' movements in competition. New Functional Training for Sports goes beyond traditional exercise descriptions and explanations, incorporating composites of movements as well as online access to video demonstrations, commentary and analysis of key exercises.

Deals with the sport of mixed martial arts. Featuring the most effective exercises for enhancing the full range of combat skills, this title allows athletes to spend less time in the gym and more time in the ring. It intends to enhance their strengths while improving their weak points.

The man who revolutionized Western training methods is back. Based on the latest scientific research, the updated third edition of Tudor Bompa's best-selling Serious Strength Training provides bodybuilders with a comprehensive guide to experiencing a complete transformation in physique and the kinds of strength gains they thought weren't possible.

Helps serious weightlifters increase mass, definition and strength. This is your guide to the massive biceps, triceps and forearms you've always wanted. Whether you're looking to quickly increase the size of your biceps or correct imbalances between the heads of your triceps, it provides serious training for serious results.

A guide to increasing core strength, stability and flexibility. Whether you're just beginning your routine or looking to enhance an existing conditioning programme, it features over 100 exercises and 60 programmes to show how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures.

Flow is the total absoprtion into an activity, to the point where time seems to stand still, the pressures of the day disappear, and great satisfaction is taken in the moment. The phenomenon as it occurs in sport is explained, and there are seven keys that should help readers use their mind.

Based on scientifically proven strategies for making workouts more effective, Elite Physique will help men sculpt and transform their physique with full-body workouts, body part-specific exercises, and joint-friendly variations.

A comprehensive sports training manual that is suitable for dedicated strength and conditioning practitioners and athletes and coaches looking to expand their knowledge on how to develop and optimise human performance and athletic capacity. Each topic is addressed by a world renowned expert in a specific component of sports conditioning.

Breathing for Peak Performance presents detailed anatomical information related to optimal breathing function and offers 35 breathing exercises. This text uses the famed Franklin Method, which combines movement, imagery, and touch to improve functional breathing technique.