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If you're serious about your sport, you're serious about heart rate training. From functions, features and operational advice for your device to interpreting and applying the results, this is a step-by-step guide to optimizing performance.

A Journey Into Yin Yoga explores the origins and application of this popular, passive style of yoga. Learn the poses, breathing, and meditation techniques that have helped millions strengthen body, mind, and spirit.

Running Anatomy, Second Edition, features 48 of the most effective exercises for runners--each with clear step-by-step descriptions--and 155 anatomical illustrations highlighting the runner's muscles in action.

Running Refined helps you make key improvements in form, leading to optimal running performance with less risk for injury.

The ability to enter into a flow state of mind will help any runner overcome the psychological barriers associated with a race. With Running Flow, pioneering flow researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gives you tools and strategies for experiencing the power of flow.

A comprehensive training manual that prepares athletes for the demands of obstacle course racing. From grip strength to balance, exercises and workouts address the unique challenges of this popular sport.

Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific programming, Functional Training is the most comprehensive resource for athletes, coaches, and athletic trainers. In an ever-changing field, it emphasizes proven techniques and approaches to training results.

Nick Bollettieri¿s Tennis Handbook, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive guide to learning and teaching tennis from the sport¿s most successful coach. Covering stroke techniques, strategies, skill development, conditioning, and mental training, this book allows you to train with a true master teacher and apply the system used in coaching 10 top-ranked players in the world.

Boasting 100 exercises and 104 variations, the new edition of Bodybuilding Anatomyis the ultimate guide to gaining mass and sculpting your physique. It features step-by-step instruction and 141 full-color anatomical illustrations, including the most popular competitive poses, and recommendations to modify and individualize programming for specific needs.

Science of Swimming Faster embraces, explains and applies the latest science and research in swimming, and is setting new performance benchmarks in the sport. It dives into the physiology, biomechanics, medicine, psychology and training for swim performance while providing prescriptive advice along the way.

In Pursuit of Excellence offers a prescriptive and practical means of gaining a competitive edge on or off the field through mental training. Athletes, coaches, and professionals will develop a positive outlook and focused commitment, overcome obstacles, improve performance, and achieve higher-quality living.

This second edition of the classic text directs dance teachers through what they need to know to teach creative dance from pre-K through adult levels in a variety of settings. It includes a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, editable forms, and teacher strategies created by master teacher Anne Green Gilbert.

Long-Term Athlete Development offers an in-depth explanation of the long-term athlete development model, an approach to athlete-centered sport that combines skill instruction with long-term planning and an understanding of human development to produce athlete growth.

Provides a comprehensive view of theories, concepts, and developments in outdoor adventure education, as presented by two of the field's noted leaders. It shows students and professionals how to apply theories and research in constructing frameworks for experiences in outdoor adventure education and how to evaluate those experiences.

Provides dancers and dance teachers with an understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance. This book features 300 illustrations that cover the major topics, showing exercises to use in technique, artistic expression and performance.

Senior Fitness Test Manual, Second Edition, and the accompanying DVD offer a user-friendly means of evaluating physical capacity in the growing population of older adults through easy-to-follow test protocols.

Features full-colour photographs and detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for slimming, shaping and toning the core, bottom and legs. Whether looking to eliminate love handles, tighten glutes, or add definition to the legs, this book presents the exercises, programming and advice for the results you want.

In the complex game that is American Football the wide receiver must be strong, fast, powerful, intelligent and focused - the total package of physical and mental skills in order to excel at the position. This book covers it all, from the fundamental skills to how to read the game and make appropriate adjustments.

Provides you with a fresh approach to running, achieving your goals and setting your personal best. This title challenges the stereotypes, removes the doubts and erases the self-imposed limitations by prescribing not only what to do but also how to do it. It helps you learn how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from running faster.

Offers more than 200 exercises and 50 workouts that show how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. This title includes programming for strength, power, bodybuilding and toning. It presents conditioning routines for optimal performance in more than 30 sports, including basketball, soccer, track and field and golf.

Includes 74 effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. This book helps swimmer learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve form in the water and minimise common swimming injuries.

Presents essential table tennis techniques and strategies. This title features an 11-step approach that is designed to maximise table tennis instruction that helps readers learn the proper grip for their style of play, execution of the basic strokes and the correct way to apply spin to the ball.

Offers details on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races. This book answers questions for those who are serious about the sport for example, how your body systems respond to training, the effects of different training methods, how to detect and avoid overtraining, and genetic versus trainable potential.

Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. This guide shows you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries.

Over 70 Workouts to Achieve Your Training Goals

Understanding Fascia, Tensegrity, and Myofascial Trigger Points explores fascia science and practical applications for therapists and movement practitioners. The text is complemented by rich photography, detailed anatomy drawings, and an analysis of referred pain patterns.

The Concise Book of the Moving Body, Second Edition, details human anatomy, including the musculoskeletal system, joints, nerves, and everyday movements. The text is fully illustrated, with more than 500 full-color drawings.

Hatha Yoga describes how to create safe, fulfilling, and holistic Hatha Yoga practices for different levels of ability and goals. Get sample sequences and practical descriptions of over 200 asanas, with detailed instructions, alignment cues, contraindications, and suggested modifications.

Bodybuilding Anatomy gives you an inside look at how to build, sculpt, and refine muscle with detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations of 68 targeted exercises for the chest, shoulders, back, arms, abdominals, and legs. Then get advice on how to pose your refined physique for competition.

Complete Conditioning for Basketball provides training expertise from the best strength and conditioning coaches in the sport. Total body strength, power, explosiveness, speed, and agility are enhanced through exercises, drills, and seasonal training plans to maximize players' physical potential.