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Teachers are often tasked with teaching health education or physical education, despite lacking specialist training. Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers is the perfect resource for these teachers. It covers health and physical education while giving teachers the skills to deliver appropriate lessons to their students.

Functional Training Anatomy covers all aspects of how to build a purposeful, effective, and efficient training program that develops the power, strength, stability, and functional mobility needed to support the body's demands in athletic performance and daily living.

Contemporary Sport Management, Seventh Edition, delivers a complete overview of sport management with a diverse team of contributors. Readers are introduced to all aspects of the field they need to know as they prepare for a career in sport management.

Ultimate Abs provides a science-based approach to abdominal training designed to help you finally achieve that long elusive six-pack. This practical guide features 130 of the most effective exercises, a host of ready-to-use programs, and proven strategies for achieving and maintaining results.

Practical and accessible, this guide shows runners how to incorporate yoga into their routine to improve breathing, strength, flexibility, endurance, mental sharpness and overall athletic performance. It describes 88 poses in detail to ensure readers are able to gain the full benefit whilst at the same time decreasing the risk of injury.

Big & Bold: Yoga for the Plus-Size Woman presents a variety of yoga poses and variations to empower plus-size women to fully experience the physical and mental benefits of yoga practice. Sample sequences of four energizing practices and four relaxing practices target specific objectives.

Ageless Intensity offers a research-backed perspective on how high-intensity exercise can minimize physiological effects of aging. Learn how to structure workouts to maximize results from working out hard, boost benefits to combat the aging process, and lower risk of injury with recovery and mobility efforts.

Big & Bold: Strength Training for the Plus-Size Woman explains how plus-size women can get started with strength training and reach progressive goals. It shows how to make exercises and workouts more effective for larger bodies, and it includes sample workouts to put the exercises together.

Strength Training for Baseball will help you create a baseball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position-pitchers, catchers, middle infielders, corner infielders, center fielders, and corner outfielders-develop strength and power that will serve them on the field.

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education helps future teachers prepare to use the teaching for learning approach to K-12 physical education. In line with SHAPE America Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes, this text will aid teachers in acquiring the skills and knowledge they need in order to develop physically literate students.

Dance Appreciation helps students new to dance as well as experienced dancers connect with the art form in meaningful ways. Students explore dance elements and a range of genres and learn approaches for viewing and responding to performances. The text comes with instructor ancillaries and HKPropel Access.

Core Teaching Practices for Health Education offers preservice and in-service health educators evidence-based strategies they can immediately use in the classroom. It is also ideal for aspiring teachers preparing for assessments such as the edTPA. Improve student learning and teacher satisfaction through this concise and practical guide.

Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text applies social theory to a broad range of physical activities such as sports, fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others.

These high-quality, full-color posters complement the Teaching Flexibility and Flexibility for Sport and Fitness videos, accentuating the importance of stretching and serving as a thorough reference-at-a-glance for fitness enthusiasts or athletes. Each poster includes easy-to-read instructions for every stretch or range of motion test pictured. Laminated and printed on durable matte paper, they're so striking and informative that you'll want to have them framed! Testing Your Flexibility depicts 13 simple tests for testing range of motion for all major joints and muscle groups. Stretching Basics illustrates the HK Stretch Routine-14 stretches proven to increase and maintain optimal flexibility for each major muscle group. And Stretching for a Healthy Back presents 14 safe, effective stretches for eliminating pain and building strength in this crucial area of the body. Use the posters alone or in conjunction with Teaching Flexibility and Flexibility for Sport and Fitness to help athletes and clients increase whole body flexibility for improved performance and reduced risk of injury. Special package price!When you order the whole series, you get three posters for the price of two! Individual poster size: 24" x 36". Type: Full-color poster. Matte finish.

Uses the model of constraints in discussing reasons for changes in movement throughout the life span. With greater emphasis on assessment, this book encourages students to examine how the interactions between the individual, environment and task bring about changes in a person's movements.

This loose-leaf version of Fitness and Wellness: A Way of Life With Web Study Guide offers students an affordable, printed version of the text.

Suitable for new cyclists who need help building their skills before they take to the road, this title offers an introduction to cycling. It gives the skills for teaching safe, fun, lifelong cycling.

Mental Training for Ultrarunning will help you understand and develop the mental skills needed for successfully competing in an ultrarace. Prepare with 35 activities that will assess your own obstacles and cultivate the skills to run with confidence.

Massive, Muscular Arms will help you achieve the muscle gains you've been seeking with a new approach to arm training. Featuring proven strategies and 65 of the most effective exercises, this is the definitive guide for increasing the size and strength of the biceps, triceps, and forearms.

Clinical Pharmacology in Athletic Training empowers athletic trainers with a functional understanding of pharmacology that enables them to formulate a treatment plan intended to mitigate disease and improve the overall health of their patients.

Velocity-Based Training takes an in-depth look at the science of VBT as well as its programming and application. Strength coaches, personal trainers, and athletes will learn how and when to incorporate VBT into training programs to help maximize strength, speed, and power gains throughout the year.

Attention and Focus in Dance supports dancers in honing the skills of attention, focus and self-cueing. Readers will learn about attentional challenges; discover advanced strategies for teaching, self-coaching and cueing; unlock their power reserves and release their dance potential.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education presents a skills-based approach to teaching health education from reception to sixth form. This practical text provides everything needed in order to build, teach and assess a health education programme that will help students become health-literate individuals and develop the skills that they will need.

The third edition of Social Dance: Steps to Success presents easy-to-follow instruction for 10 of today's most popular social dances. From fundamentals such as footwork and posture to communication and practice drills, this special book and DVD package is ideal for anyone wishing to perfect their moves on the dance floor.

Using an integrative approach, Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology considers the human capacity to exercise in and tolerate different environments and explores how multiple systems interact during exposure and exercise in various environments.

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.

This graduate-level textbook instills evidence-based knowledge of contemporary practices in athletic training and health care. Integrating essential competencies outlined by the NATA, BOC, and CAATE, future athletic trainers will build a foundation for clinical expertise to improve patient outcomes.

NSCA's Essentials of Sport Science provides the most contemporary and comprehensive overview of the field of sport science and the role of the sport scientist. It is a primary preparation resource for the Certified Performance and Sport Scientist (CPSS) certification exam.

This is the essential guide for Masters athletes seeking to better understand their changing nutritional needs and apply effective fueling strategies for sport, fitness, and athletic pursuits. It is ideal for athletes as well as dietitians, coaches, and other professionals who work with athletes over age 35.

Learn about the rapidly expanding esports industry in Esports Business Management. Written by esports executives and experts and endorsed by the International Esports Federation, Esports Research Network, and the United States Esports Federation, this is a comprehensive introduction to the world of esports.