Sports & Recreation

The first comprehensive fitness instruction and training programme design resource to explore the evidence-base of effective programme design. Uses cutting-edge scientific research to identify optimum training methods and dispel some common myths around fitness training.

Coaching Better Every Season: A Year Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success provides a detailed blueprint for coaches, including proven methods and best practices in the preseason, in-season, postseason, and off season. Dr. Wade Gilbert's research supported and field tested prescriptions and protocols will produce more positive results and a more professional approach to coaching.

A revised and updated second edition of the popular Complete Guide to Personal Training. Aimed at anyone working as, or training to be a Personal Trainer.

Designed to assist students undertaking the SIS30315 Certificate III in Fitness qualification, The Essential Guide to Fitness provides students with the knowledge, skills and hands on practice required to work as fitness professionals.

Designed to assist students undertaking the SIS40215 Certificate IV in Fitness qualification, Fitness Trainer Essentials 3e teaches the basics of fitness and nutrition principles, functional testing, nutritional assessment, and guidelines.

Learn how to set health goals, create fitness plans, and read about different gym machines and how to use them both safely and effectively.

Since periodization training's emergence in the 1950s, sport scientists have known that timing is one of the most critical programming variables influencing peak athletic performance. Modern research has taken the application of timing to exercise programming in a new direction, discovering the existence of time clocks inside each of the more than 600 skeletal muscles...

The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching is a collection of the curated thoughts of nearly 30 top soccer coaches around the globe. In this book, you will gain access to the depth and breadth of experience from some of the best coaches across all areas of the beautiful game. You will learn theoretical details about tactical periodization, positional play, and the science of motor learning. You will also learn from Youth National Team Coaches, NCAA National Championship winning coaches, and First Division Coaches from top European clubs. This book is a resource that can direct your education as a coach over and around the perilous pitfalls that often consume most coaches. After reading this book, you will have gained the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of some of the best coaches around the globe across all areas of the game: from grassroots to premier leagues and everything in between.

Hockey Anatomy presents 96 exercises with 68 variations to improve on-ice performance. Highly detailed anatomical drawings highlight muscle groups used during exercise and during games.

Elite players, coaches, and trainers rely on plyometrics to develop power, agility, speed, strength, body control, balance, and overall athletic performance. With this authoritative guide on plyometrics, you can too.

Muscle hypertrophy defined as an increase in muscular size is one of the primary outcomes of resistance training. Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy is a comprehensive compilation of science based principles to help professionals develop muscle hypertrophy in athletes and clients.

The Mobility Workout Handbook is your complete guide to incorporating this critical aspect of fitness into your workout routines. Exercise, paired with proper mobility training, is what enables professional athletes to work to their fullest potential without fear of injury or burnout, and now you can too.

The ultimate guide to running injuries, covering prevention, detection, and rehabilitation. Learn how to avoid and manage the most common running injuries that occur to the foot, ankle, lower leg, knee, hip, and pelvis.

In Sport Therapy for the Shoulder: Evaluation, Rehabilitation, and Return to Sport, readers will learn about best practices and evidence-based guidelines for assessing and treating patients' shoulder injuries for re-entry into sport.

Are you looking for the key to optimal performance? Increased speed, power, and agility? What you need is a complete flexibility training system--one designed for today's athlete and made up of dynamic stretches that mirror sport-specific movement. And you should also have the skills to assess exactly what your body needs at any time. That complete program is found in Stretch to Win.

Create great schedules in minutes! Organizing Successful Tournaments contains the tools for structuring, scheduling, and administering leagues and tournaments. All types of competitions are covered: single and double elimination, multilevel, ladder, pyramid, level rotation, and round-robin. Includes web access to over 2,700 customizable templates.

Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory sport management textbook, it focuses on core management principles and their application in a sporting context, highlighting the unique challenges of a career in sport management. The book contains useful features throughout, including conceptual overviews, guides to further reading, links to important websites, study questions, and up-to-date case studies showing how theory works in the real world.