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Sport Nutrition: An Introduction to Energy Production and Performance presents in-depth discussion of the science behind sport nutrition, including general principles, background, and rationale for current nutritional guidelines. Students will gain a solid understanding of the principles of nutrition as they relate specifically to sport. Students will also learn how...

Fitness Professional's Guide to Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Human Movement is a revolution in the field of human movement. Comprehensive and meticulous, this groundbreaking text is ideal for college courses and a must for any fitness professional. For each muscle in the body, the book includes a detailed illustration that uses...

Stay ahead of the curve by offering your patients and athletes a full complement of care that focuses not only on their symptoms but examines the varied and interrelated factors that contribute to their health. Complementary Sports Medicine shows you how to combine many nontraditional therapies that will help your...

The reorganized and newly revised Children's Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, presents the most up-to-date research, methodology, and approaches related to children's physiologic responses to exercise. The book examines not only the current major issues that separate children from adults, but also the underlying mechanisms of these differences. Readers will learn...

Infant Motor Development is the first text to concentrate on motor development during infancy - the stage in which the greatest qualitative changes in the life span occur. It is an excellent introduction to the most relevant and common issues researchers, clinicians, and parents face. This groundbreaking text combines theory...

Hollywood's biggest celebrities and people just like you have transformed their bodies with Barry's Bootcamp. It uses a whole new way of working out called Focused Interval Training, or FIT, which burns fat up to 9 times faster than ordinary workouts. With Barry's Bootcamp, you'll get 6 fat-blasting and body-sculpting...

Best-selling author and fitness industry specialist Thomas Plummer presents this amazing, no-nonsense resource on starting and opening a successful fitness business. In this concentrated, easy-to-use book, Thom directs you through every stage of opening a successful fitness business. Chapters include: Conceptualizing your new business, finding a home and proper site,...

Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology Measurement, Joan L. Duda, Ph.D., Editor, is a landmark publication which provides a comprehensive review of measurement approacheswithin sport and exercise psychology. Author/Editor: Joan L. Duda Copyright: 1998 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 544 pp. Sport Motivation and Perceived Competence 1. Attributions and Attributional Style 2....

Athletic trainers, physical therapists, psychological consultants, coaches, and physicians, as well as athletes themselves, should benefit from reading this book. Collectively, the chapters express the breadth and depth of the psychology of injury field. This completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition of this pioneering text is organized into five...

The growing global sport industry requires that the sport management curriculum keep abreast of new and proven management techniques. Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks provides readers with a comprehensive up-to-date introduction to each element of facility management for the full range of sporting events. The demand for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 second edition of this ground-breaking text continues to guide students toward a greater understanding of human resource management in the sport and recreation environment. Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation, Second Edition, provides future practitioners with a solid foundation in research and application of human resource management for...

It has long been known that almost all elite athletes use imagery and that most sport psychologists apply imagery in working with athletes. But most material on the subject has been, to this point, relegated to single chapters in books, to journal articles, or to conference proceedings. Now Imagery in...

Inclusive Physical Activity: A Lifetime of Opportunities provides practitioners with practical strategies and hands-on applications for physical activity programming to include all people. In doing so, it bridges the gap between school-based and community-based programs to help people with differences in ability become and remain physically active throughout their lives....