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Secrets of Successful Program Design teaches you how to properly assess clients, design effective training programs, and progress and regress exercises based on individual client goals.

Provides an examination of the fundamental concepts and principles practitioners need to understand in order to make decisions on what might be appropriate in the programme design for their athletes. Offering an integration of coaching theory and scientific underpinnings, this book is useful for those interested in muscular strength.

Myofascial Training: Intelligent Movement for Mobility, Performance, and Recovery will show you how to reset your myofascial system of connective tissues to help you improve function, enhance performance, recover from injury, and release tension.

Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs, Sixth Edition, offers procedures for providing patients with low-cost, high-quality programming that moves them toward a lifelong commitment to disease management.

Technology for Physical Educators, Health Educators, and Coaches guides instructors and coaches in taking full advantage of current technology to help them enhance their instruction, assessment, management, communication, professional development, and advocacy.

Governance in Sport: Analysis and Application With Web Resource examines governance within sport organizations. Learn legal foundations and agency functions at multiple levels, and examine industry sectors, including sport wagering and esports. The web resource includes 12 in-depth, modern case studies.

Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga will help instructors and practitioners improve their yoga practice as it relates to the pelvis. They will better understand proper pelvic movement and cues and apply that knowledge through 26 asanas, accompanied by full-color illustrations.

Over 180 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. This resource is aligned with the National Health Education Standards and comes with a web resource that includes English and Spanish versions of the book's reproducible forms.

Provides an introduction to statistics concepts and techniques and their applications to exercise science-related areas. This title helps students will learn to use statistical tools to analyze quantitative data and then apply that knowledge to many of the common questions and problems they will encounter as they continue their studies.

This new and updated edition provides future and current sport facility managers with the knowledge they need in order to make the proper decisions in all areas of facility management.

Aerial Adventure Environments offers a comprehensive introduction to the aerial adventure industry, including low and high challenge (ropes) courses, zip lines, canopy tours, and aerial adventure parks.

Understanding Sport Organizations provides a strong foundation in organizational theory and organizational behavior and addresses how that theory is applied in a real-world context. It engages readers by providing opportunities to discover the theory in practice.

Stretching provides numerous benefits, including improved flexibility, stamina, posture and muscular strength as well as reduced muscle soreness. This guide combines step-by-step instructions for performing 86 stretches and 110 full-colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles and surrounding structures engaged.

Interprofessional Education and Collaboration offers a comprehensive guide to interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). Written by a team of health care experts, this text is shaped by research and provides tools for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children returns for its 19th edition. Elementary teachers are taught how to deliver quality and effective and physical education by teaching foundational, specialised sport skills and lifetime activities as well as helping children learn to have fun and be responsible in physical activity settings.

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. It presents the ecological dynamics multidisciplinary framework for designing learning environments that foster skill development.

Recreational Therapy Assessment is an evidence-based guide connecting the recreational therapy assessment process with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to help therapeutic recreation professionals classify individuals' functionality to better meet the needs of clients.

Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs, Fourth Edition, presents the credentialing components of pulmonary rehabilitation programs, including initial and ongoing assessment, collaborative self-management education, exercise training, psychosocial support, and outcomes measurement.

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management fills a gap in sport management literature by exploring the key organizational behavior topics in sport organization settings. The text covers issues such as diversity, ethics, values, behavior, leadership, and much more. Book FeaturesOrganizational Behavior in Sport Management offers the following features: - Learning objectives and discussion questions for each chapter that help students conceptualize, retain, and understand the content - Case studies with discussion questions to help students apply the concepts from each chapter - In the Boardroom sidebars that use real-life examples from organizations within the field to highlight key topics The In the Boardroom sidebars reflect best practices for various levels of numerous sport organizations, affording readers a great range of applications in the sport management world. Instructor Guide In addition, the text has an online instructor guide that includes chapter objectives, discussion questions from the text (and their answers), discussion questions for case studies (and their answers), suggestions for integrating the case studies into lectures, links to recommended websites, assignments, class projects, essay ideas, and lists of suggested readings. Focus of BookOrganizational Behavior in Sport Management presents classical research in organizational behavior as well as up-to-date knowledge from the field of sport management. The authors offer information on individual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational processes that are fundamental to working within a sport organization, placing equal emphasis on what managers of sport organizations need to understand about human behavior and what each person brings to the work situation in terms of his or her own attitudes, thoughts, perceptions, and skills. The authors emphasize empowering employees and understanding their needs and desires regarding work, as opposed to managing employees in one particular way. With this in mind, the authors discuss the roles of sport organization administrators and executives, volunteers, employees, and players and coaches of sport teams, exploring how they behave independently as well as how they interact with each other. An Understanding of Organizational BehaviorOrganizational Behavior in Sport Management offers a foundational and contemporary look at the inner workings of sport organizations, providing numerous real-life examples from throughout the country and grounding students in the key behavioral and managerial issues that leaders, managers, and employees in sport organizations face today. As such, this text answers the key questions of why we do what we do at work, why others behave as they do, and how our interpretation of events and behaviors is subject to our own biases. In the process, students will gain an understanding of the most important organizational behavior topics and get a glimpse of how they could successfully function in a sport organization.

The BioMechanics Method for Corrective Exercise With Online Video enables health and fitness professionals to identify common musculoskeletal imbalances in their clients and apply appropriate corrective exercises to swiftly eliminate muscle and joint pain and improve physical function.

Fitness for Life: Middle School, Second Edition, offers new material and resources, including a new interactive web textbook for students and online bundle for teachers. With this text you will be able to integrate fitness concepts into core curricula, engage students in using technology in their healthy lifestyle planning, and address all current guidelines and standards.

Resource for K-12 physical education teachers and administrators. Textbook for undergraduate physical education courses.

ACSM's Body Composition Assessment provides practicing fitness, health, and medical professionals with information about various body composition measurement methods in clinical and field settings-evidence-based protocols, advantages, sources of measurement error, and more.

Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated Approaches for Elementary Teachers is a compendium of integrated, evidence-based approaches to physical and health education teaching from leading physical and health educators and researchers from across Canada.

This text presents the new National Standards for K-12 Physical Education. It includes new, measurable grade-level outcomes for elementary, middle, and high school students. All outcomes are written to align with the standards and with the intent of fostering lifelong physical activity.

This complete guide offers 85 of the most scenic day hikes in the Volunteer State of Tennessee for anyone planning a walking holiday.

This book represents the collective knowledge and experience of Canadian football's most respected and renowned coaches, as selected by Football Canada, from all levels of the sport. Each coach shares personal insights, strategies, and advice, addressing all facets of the 12-player game.

This text offers adapted physical education teachers the most complete and up-to-date health-related fitness testing program available for youngsters with physical and mental disabilities. It is compatible with and can be used alongside Fitnessgram and includes an online resource that demonstrates assessment protocol for the tests.

A guide for establishing an aggressive, opportunistic and disciplined offense. It includes detailed coverage of the four offensive team goals and the six ways to create offensive pressure that gives every team a chance. It also offers a statistical analysis of run production and the most common predictors for achieving a big innings.