Author: James Gavin
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: coaching, fitness, lifestyle
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-05-12
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 0736052062
ISBN-13: 9780736052061

Lifestyle fitness coaching is an emerging field in the health and fitness industry. Centered on an ongoing and guided process of dialogue, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching offers a systematic approach to help fitness professionals understand their clients’ needs, interests, and personal orientations and use the information to direct clients toward achieving their health and personal goals.Lifestyle Fitness Coaching contains detailed information on coaching dialogues between the health fitness professional and the client, addressing issues such as the types of questions to ask, how to provid

Authors:Cathrine Himberg, Gayle Hutchinson, John Mathieu Rou
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: adolescents, active, life, preparing, education, secondary, physical, teaching
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 088011939X
ISBN-13: 9780880119399

• Help teens become physically active for life. • Build physical education programs that keep pace with changing needs. • Introduce technology into the classroom. With the introduction of Teaching Secondary Physical Education, now there is a teaching methods textbook that meets the needs of today’s diverse student populations. It outlines a contemporary approach that focuses on how teachers can help their students become active for life. A team of experts walks you step by step through the process of building and adapting quality programs to keep pace with changing needs. Y

Authors:Richard A. Schmidt, Craig A. Wrisberg,
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: learning, situation, based, approach, guide, study, performance, web, motor
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 073606964X
ISBN-13: 9780736069649

The student-friendly fourth edition of Motor Learning and Performance: A Situation-Based Learning Approach expands on the fundamentals of motor performance and learning, providing valuable supporting literature and current research results in an accessible and engaging format. This text goes beyond simply presenting the latest research. Instead, Schmidt and Wrisberg challenge students not only to grasp but also to apply the fundamental concepts of motor performance and learning via a unique situation-based approach. Movement practitioners using this approach continually ask three basic ques

Authors:Andrew Pittman, John O. Spengler, Sarah Young,
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: web, resource, law, sport, studies, case
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 073606821X
ISBN-13: 9780736068215

Case Studies in Sport Law gives students an inside view of some of the most significant cases in sport law history—while dispensing with the legal jargon. This approach makes the book an ideal supplement for non-law students who want to understand the legal issues without having to wade through the legalese or needing a law school background to understand the cases. The cases are to the point and filled with real-life applications for sport management students.To ensure that the most relevant cases were included in the text, a panel of experts selected 90 classic and modern cases using th

Authors:Don MacAdam, Gail Reynolds,
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: week, training, series, sport, hockey
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2001-10-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0736042040
ISBN-13: 9780736042048

Anyone can play ice hockey by learning to perform the skills of the game...but you can only play at your peak performance if you get in shape. If you want the power to move quickly and the stamina for sustained hard skating, you must condition the muscles and cardiovascular system to build strength, power, and endurance. This book takes you to that peak level with a year-round physical conditioning plan specifically for hockey.52-Week Hockey Training is a day-by-day conditioning program that will get your team in shape for more powerful skating and shooting. It’s a complete schedule

Authors:Joseph Maguire, Grant Jarvie, Louise Mansfield, Josep
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: worlds, sport
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-01-28
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0880119721
ISBN-13: 9780880119726

Sport Worlds: A Sociological Perspective takes a novel approach to tracing the intimate and extensive relationships between sport and other social worlds. By examining classic issues and current trends, the text offers students and practitioners alike a broad base of knowledge with which to challenge the everyday conventions and practices of sport.Joseph Maguire, Grant Jarvie, Louise Mansfield, and Joe Bradley deftly highlight the ways in which sport competitions are shaped more by what happens off the field than on. Using contemporary examples, the authors paint a historically relevant pic

Author: David Thomas
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: steps, success, series, sports, swimming
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-02-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0736054367
ISBN-13: 9780736054362

Become more fluid in the water with Swimming: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide provides progressive instruction to help you master several swimming strokes and skills: backstroke, front crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, sidestroke, back crawl, trudgen, floating, diving, sculling, and underwater swimming. Step-by-step instruction and 195 illustrations break down each stroke to the basic arm and leg movements and their timing. The multiple drills in each step include a scoring system to gauge success and determine readiness to advance to the next skill. Part of the highly succes