Anatomy of Exercise            New            

The book is a unique guide to strength training. It uses stunning 3D colour illustrations to guide the reader through a complete range of strength exercises, each highlighting exactly which muscles are used and how.

Athletic Fitness for Kids

Scott Lancaster, Radu Teodorescu

Finally, here is a conditioning program designed to fully develop a young athlete's physical skills without dropout, injury, or burnout.

Athletic Fitness for Kids enhances athletic skills for young athletes using a fun, self-directed, and self-tested system. Gamelike activities help young athletes develop seven key sport skills:

• Flexibility

• Coordination

• Balance

• Stamina

• Strength

• Speed

• Agility

Coaching Youth Track & Field

ASEP

Coaching Youth Track & Field stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the sport, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year.

Numerous coaching books present the skills, drills, and activities of track and field. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner.

Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) in conjunction with Matt Lydum and other experts from Hershey's Track & Field Games and USA Track & Field (USATF), Coaching Youth Track & Field is the only resource available today aimed at coaches of athletes ages 14 and under.

Educating for Health - An Inquiry-Based Approach to PreK-8 Pedagogy

Valerie A. Ubbes

Using a curricular approach called personal practical knowledge, Valerie Ubbes takes you on a transformational journey that will help you become a master teacher of health education for children in grades preK through 8. That journey begins with an in-depth exploration of your uniqueness as a professional who will educate for health. Dr. Ubbes helps you turn your personal narrative into your professional identity and then guides you toward an understanding of children's learning styles and the practical knowledge you will use to shape a relational pedagogy with your learners.

Educating for Health explores pedagogical strategies that will help you bridge your understanding of health issues with your teaching. This book will help you translate education and health theories into practice as you

• focus on the acquisition of cognitive-behavioral health habits in your students,

• adapt your instruction and assessment options based on individual learning styles,

• structure relationships and environments that are optimal for learning,

• examine nine evidence-based instructional strategies that you can use as tools in educating for health, and

• study design as an inquiry-based process for teaching and learning

Fun Classroom Fitness Routines Ages 4 to 9 DVD 

Fun Classroom Fitness Routines Ages 10 to 14 DVD

Carol Scaini

Fun Classroom Fitness Routines: Ages 4 to 9 is the perfect resource for classroom and physical educators who have limited space and physical education time but are still required to meet state or local mandates on minutes of physical activity time. This DVD and its companion, Fun Classroom Fitness Routines: Ages 10 to 14, will keep kids active and moving in a way that's appropriate for their ages and interests.
These DVDs were created to be used in a classroom—with no need for extensive equipment or instruction time. Students watch the DVD and follow along with award-winning educator and host Carol Scaini as she demonstrates each exercise routine. The DVD contains five ready-to-go fitness routines lasting 10 minutes each, plus a 7-minute warm-up and stretch routine. Each routine requires minimal prep time, and teachers can vary the routines to keep kids interested and having fun. The DVD includes printable PDF documents that contain descriptions of each exercise along with tips on presenting and managing those activities.

£18.99

£18.99

GETTING STARTED IN TRACK & FIELD  2nd Edition NEW

TAF News first published Ron Parker's Getting Started way back in 1976. It was the first fullength book to address the subject of getting youngsters off and running in the sport, at the most basic level. All events are covered: the basic object of the event and the best way to teach it to youngsters.

THE HURDLES   2004 Edition

Contemporary Theory, Technique and Training, Jess Jarver, ed. 4th ed., 2004. Fine collection of articles, comprising a guide to the most recent advanced thinking about hurdles technique and training. more..

INTRODUCTION TO TRIPLE JUMP   New       

by  Dr. Alan Neuff

Power Plyometrics - The Complete Program

Edward McNeely; David Sandler

Power Plyometrics offers a complete program for improving jumping ability and athletic power. It is the only plyometrics book that allows readers to assess their individual starting level and then move through three progressively more challenging levels of training until they are ready to train for their specific sport. The book includes plyometrics drills for upper and lower body, as well as for the trunk and the full body, and sport-specific programs for 16 different sports.

Sport-specific programs include:
• Hockey • Baseball/Softball • Football
• Volleyball • Tennis • Wrestling
• Badminton • Squash • Field Hockey
• Sprinting • Rugby • Basketball
• Boxing • Judo • Soccer

ROAD TO ATHENS

by Bill Adcocks, the fastest man ever over the Classic Marathon course.

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Running and Fat Burning for Women 

Jeff & Barbara Galloway with Nancy Clark

This book explains the process of fat deposition and burning, and provides a plan to gain control over both sides of the issue: intake and burn-off.

Whether one is getting off the couch or has been exercising for years, there is advice for improving well-being through eating strategies and gentle segments of exercise.

Jeff and Barbara don't just explain the principles, they say exactly what to eat and how to insert 5-10 minutes of exercise, strategically.

Readers will find tools to manage the process, with a series of steps leading to the goal.

Running - Getting Started 

Jeff Galloway

"Running - Getting Started" will take anyone, at any level of fitness, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered during most training programs. Jeff developed the Run-Walk method of training, in which running is repeatedly interrupted by walk breaks, and offers a step by step program that is easy to use and easy to understand. Included will be lots of tips on nutrition, staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching and strengthening and much more.

Running Injuries

Jeff Galloway, David Hannaford DPM

This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to print them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

Strength Training for Men - The Ultimate Core Strength to Power Conversion Training System 

Paul Collins

Strength Training for Men conditions your body for muscular gains and increasing athletic performance. The book includes practical, easy-to-follow strength training routines that help guide you through basic lifting techniques to more advanced Olympic-lifting power progressions.

The book is loaded with relevant information for any athlete, coach or trainer at any level. It contains all the fundamentals for building a safe, efficient strength training program, whilst sequencing exercises towards the development of explosive power through Paul’s breakthrough Core-Strength to Power Conversion Training System. Best of all, each exercise and program is clearly and simply explained.

Strength Training for Women 

Paul Collins - The Body Coach®

Strength Training for Women has been developed as a training guide as more women begin to understand the health benefits of this activity.

Strength Training for Women is written in five parts. First, you will be educated about general strength training terminology. Second, major muscle groups of the body will be pinpointed, providing strength training exercises used in a gym using hand weights (dumbbells), barbells, various cable, pinloaded and weighted machines. Third, you will be provided with a series of strength training routines for use in the gym. Fourth is a body weight workout routine that can be performed at home or whilst travelling. Fifth is the take anywhere hand weight routine for the whole body.

the Throws - Contemporary Theory Techniques & Training Series          

Edited by Glenn Thompson. 6th edition (2007) of this excellent volume on the four throwing events: shot, discus, hammer and javelin. This edition contains 34 of the best recent articles on the four throwing events, a compilation that essentially gives you an invaluable course in the latest thinking and research on these events. These articles are taken from such publications as Track Coach, L&STJ, Modern Athlete & Coach, Athletics Weekly, and so on.

Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness-2nd Edition

Lee E. Brown, Vance Ferrigno

Not only are modern athletes larger and more muscular than their predecessors, but they also move with a swiftness and power never seen before. Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness is the workout guide and DVD package you need in order to perform a step ahead of the competition.

What elevates this book to become the ultimate training resource is the bonus DVD, ideal for both athletes and coaches. It allows you to see exactly how to perform key tests and execute the best and most complex drills from the book

Top sport and conditioning experts present the best information on testing, techniques, drills, and training programs available to maximize athletes' innate movement capabilities. The book contains 195 drills, many of which are fully illustrated, while the most complex drills and useful tests to track athletic skills and progress are featured on the DVD.

The Track & Field News Technique and Drills Series: A great collection of nine DVDs aimed at giving the high school coach an excellent resource for helping his/her athletes reach their potential, all presented by coaches who have been highly successful at the prep level.

1)Distance/Middle Distance; 2)Pole Vault; 3)Discus; 4)Glide Shot Put; 5)High Jump; 6)Hurdles; 7)Long and Triple Jump; 8)Sprints; 9)Rotational Shot Put 

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Winning Jumps and Pole Vault               

By Ed Jacoby

Master the long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault with Winning Jumps and Pole Vault. Athletes and coaches alike will benefit from the tactics and strategies that a collection of elite coaches provide in this book. Featuring tips on the approach, takeoff and landing, you can perfect technique and condition yourself for success.