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Relieve symptoms from allergic reactions, hay fever, and asthma! Action Plan for Allergies was developed in conjunction with the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. This book shows you how to take control of your health, boost your energy, and...

Take control of your blood sugar with Action Plan for Diabetes . This complete guide to managing and preventing complications associated with the disease can significantly decrease your chances of needing insulin injections. This exercise-based plan can be tailored to your body's needs to boost your energy level, help you...

Boost your energy, lose weight, and rejuvenate your heart with a proven cholesterol-fighting exercise program. Unlike fad diets that cut weight at any cost, Action Plan for High Cholesterol contains proven programs to bring your cholesterol levels under control as quickly and effectively as possible. Learn what type of exercise...

The second edition of Adapted Aquatics Programming: A Professional Guide clarifies rationales for adapted aquatics programming, broadens the scope of and enriches traditional programs for people with disabilities, guides instructors in improving teaching methods and safety management, and educates professionals on providing safe and effective adapted aquatics programs. The second...

In recent years, research has demonstrated that exercise programs can benefit patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Yet many physicians do not refer such patients to any kind of exercise or rehabilitation program. Advances in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation examines the history of how...

The author of the groundbreaking Exercise and Immunology returns with Advances in Exercise Immunology, a thorough and unparalleled study of the relationship between exercise and immune function. You'll learn why athletes are susceptible to illness during intense training, how various immune system components respond to exercise, how regular exercise may...

Updated and greatly expanded N with new modules that cover all the clinical proficiencies of the 1999 NATA Athletic Training Education Competencies N this third edition of Ken Knight's popular text is better than ever. In fact, it's the most flexible clinical education tool available today to athletic training students....

With women's sport performance at an all-time high and continuing to rise, you need to be faster, stronger, and more agile in order to compete. Yet, until now, no training manual has specifically addressed female athletes' physiological, biomechanical, and anatomical needs. Athletic Strength for Women presents effective exercise prescriptions to...

Modern rugby requires you to have speed, strength, agility, endurance, and power in order to excel. Few sports demand such diverse physical attributes, and no book so comprehensively addresses how to develop them specifically for the sport-until now! Complete Conditioning for Rugby features firsthand insights from Dan Luger, English rugby...

In this updated, revised, and expanded third edition of Designing Resistance Training Programs , two of the world's leading experts on strength training explore how to use scientific knowledge to develop personalized training programs. With this text, you'll be able to design scientifically sound resistance training programs, modify and adapt...

Professionals in educational and recreational settings work hard to understand and address the problems faced by underserved youth. Yet the dedicated people in these institutions are often limited in what they can achieve because they tend to remain within the confines of their own work environment rather than sharing their...

Work, social, and family commitments often make it difficult to fit tasty and healthy food choices into your diet. In Eating on the Run , Evelyn Tribole solves your dieting dilemma using her proven expertise concerning all foods, savory and sweet. Divided into four parts for easy reference, Eating on...

Emotions in Sport is the first comprehensive treatment of how individual and team emotions affect athletic performance. Edited by renowned Olympic advisor, researcher, and teacher Yuri Hanin, the book provides you with: a comprehensive understanding of emotional patterns such as anxiety, anger, and joy, as well as their impact on...

Essentials of Primary Care Sports Medicine gives a non-orthopedic approach to sports medicine that will help athletic trainers, sports therapists, sports medicine physicians, and health practitioners as well as students in these areas focus on athletes' general health issues. Readers will be able to understand the primary care concerns of...

The latest edition of Ethics in Sport doesn't rest on its laurels as the finest and most comprehensive collection of literature to date on moral and ethical issues confronting sport in contemporary society. The diverse anthology of essays written by world-renowned scholars has been updated to reflect the very latest...

Become proficient in the recognition of musculoskeletal injuries, know when to refer clients to physician care, and grasp all the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Athletic Training Educational Competencies related to injury and general medical condition recognition with the completely revised second edition of Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries. Formerly known...

Here is the consummate text for anyone interested in learning how the cardiovascular system is regulated. Exercise and Circulation in Health and Disease is an expansive, broad-based reference that explores the functioning cardiovascular system from an integrative viewpoint. This text includes both historical developments and recent findings on the diverse...

Exercise Biochemistry brings an admittedly difficult and technical subject to life. Extremely user- and student-friendly, it is written in conversational style by Vassilis Mougios, who poses and then answers questions as if in conversation with a student. Mougios does an excellent job of making the information interesting by using simple...

A complete guide to developing strategies for physical activity programs that meet the needs of every client-from healthy athletes to people with physical, pathological, social or psychological limitations. Exercise Management: Concepts and Professional Practice provides an interdisciplinary approach to developing, prescribing and delivering high-quality physical activity programs. Explore how to...

Exercise Metabolism, Second Edition , provides a systematic, in-depth examination of the regulation of metabolic processes during exercise. Exercise physiologists, exercise biochemists, and biochemists will find this book a comprehensive reference, using the up-to-date information and the nearly 1,000 references in their own research and writing. In addition, graduate students...

You will find no better preparation source for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certification than the new, second edition of Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines . Authors David Swain and Brian Leutholtz present a series of case studies to help you translate the...

Awareness of the importance of exercise and physical activity to long-term health has never been greater. In the United States alone, 200,000 deaths annually are attributed to coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, colon cancer, and other diseases that result from physical inactivity. Growing evidence also suggests that inactivity is...

The movements in competitive weightlifting - the snatch, clean, jerk, and other variations - can make you a more powerful athlete, no matter what sport you're in. The enhanced edition of Explosive Lifting for Sports shows how to incorporate these exercises into your own sports training program. This special book...

In the world of law enforcement, there are no time-outs, no half-time breaks, and no substitutions! If you're a police officer, sheriff's deputy, state patrol officer, federal agent, or detention officer, you know that you need strength and stamina to perform your job effectively, especially when critical situations arise. Fit...

It's never too late to get fit! Fitness After 50 shows you exactly how to get there, addressing all of your questions about exercise-and more. Whether you are completely new to exercise or are looking to fine-tune your existing program, this information-rich book will show you how to get started,...