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Diet Lies and Weight Loss Truths offers practical, evidence-based guidance on choosing the right diet plan to effectively and safely lose excess weight and keep it off. Sample meal plans from a registered dietitian and a comparison of pros and cons of popular diet trends will help you make lasting lifestyle changes.

Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology guides readers through the scientific concepts of exercise physiology with highly visual, easy-to-follow content. The text applies complex concepts of physiology to exercise programme design, giving health and fitness professionals an accessible resource to use with their clients.

Back Exercise explores the anatomy and movement of the spine and offers exercises that stabilize, mobilize, and reduce back pain. Low back pain, disc bulge and herniation, spondylolisthesis, stenosis, and spinal surgeries are discussed, along with guidelines for safety and self-assessment.

This resource will help yoga teachers, physical therapists, and individuals with disabilities create safe and effective yoga practices that accommodate conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, limb amputation, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis.

All-Pro Performance Testing offers a detailed look at the proper execution for combine staples such as the 40-yard dash and pro agility shuttle, tips for mastering position-specific agility drills, and an inside look into how athletes at the highest level of the sport both train and recover.

A Professional's Guide to Small-Group Personal Training will help you incorporate group dynamics and your knowledge of training principles to develop new business offerings. Attract new clients and improve their performance, adherence, and enjoyment in a small-group setting.

Sport Coaches' Handbook supports the education and development of sport coaches by providing them with the knowledge required to fulfill their roles as coaches while considering their personal values and philosophy, the athletes they coach, and the environment in which they coach.

Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Students provides PETE students a solid conceptual foundation for creating healthy learning environments and quality physical education programs. This resource offers a wide variety of units and activities that enhance learning.

Developing Game Sense in Physical Education and Sport provides coaches and teachers with practical instructions to help learners develop the skills and understanding they need to effectively play games and sports. It offers instruction in invasion games, striking and fielding games, and net and wall games.

This edition of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach adds four new chapters and has over 350 lesson plans to help teachers-from elementary through secondary school-learn the tactics and skills of various sports. Video clips delivered on HKPropel show some lessons in action.

Outlines the basics of public relations, including the differences between public relations and marketing, and focuses on the importance of public relations in sport. Useful as a textbook for students studying sport communications and public relations, this text also serves as a reference for sport public relations and communications personnel.

True to its name, The Complete Guide to Pitching is packed with guidance and instruction on every aspect of pitching. In this book and DVD package, renowned pitching coach Derek Johnson shares his secrets on mechanics, pitch selection, arm care and conditioning, fielding, and mental strategies for dominating the opposition.

Preparing for the Army Combat Fitness Test is the ideal resource to help new recruits and active duty soldiers train for the Army's physical assessment of combat readiness.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Fitness for Life: Elementary School is an innovative multimedia package that facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity as well as concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles.

Takes you step-by-step through the choreographic process, including sample lesson plans, warm-up ideas, and seven easy steps to build a dance. Includes Deal-A-Dance cards.

Careers in Dance explores the expanding opportunities in dance in various settings and with a variety of focuses, including performance, choreography, and competition. It helps dancers pinpoint their passions and strengths and equips them to forge fulfilling careers in dance.

Social Media and Sports provides a holistic view of the impact of social media on sports communication, teaching conceptual understanding and creative skills for social media strategy, content creation, and execution.

ACSM's Essentials of Youth Fitness is the authoritative guide on motor skill development, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, and strength, power, speed and agility training for young athletes.

This groundbreaking text describes how general and adapted PE teachers can implement universal design for learning (UDL) to create units and lesson plans that are accessible to all students. Numerous ready-to-use plans, rubrics, and examples will help teachers follow best practices in inclusion.

A comprehensive, yet practical, program designed for judoka and mixed martial artists to achieve the strength, power, agility, quickness, and endurance needed to master and excel in this physically demanding sport.

This comprehensive guide for soccer conditioning includes proven techniques to improve speed, strength, power, and agility; position-specific training guidelines; and injury prevention, management, and return-to-play protocols.

Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults goes beyond aging theories to take a close look at the physical implications of aging: measuring and modifying functional age, determining quality of life of older adults, and promoting healthy aging.

Offers nutrition concepts for athletes. This guide features advice on meals, energy and nutrient-timing guidelines to maintain that crucial energy balance throughout the day. It presents explanations on optimal ratios and quantities of nutrients as well as guidelines on identifying and maintaining optimal body composition for maximal power.

Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future.

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness, Third Edition, is a faith-based text that helps students explore and apply key concepts of holistic health and wellness. A new web study guide assists students in retaining and using what they learn.