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Since the early 1970s, proponents of the New Games movement have been using cooperative, interactive games to bring diverse groups of people together. In Best New Games, Dale Le Fevre shows you how to lead, develop, and adapt New Games for any group. This complete resource is the only book now available that presents New Games. New Games are for groups of all ages and abilities--and they're meant to be played just for fun. Developed during the Vietnam War era, New Games were created to encourag...

This text explains how to perceive errors in sport and bounce back from them positively. Coaches and athletes can learn how mistakes can lead to the development of new strategies and tactics, define strengths as well as weaknesses, build mental toughness and subsequently enhance performance. The book features chapter summaries and Coaches Corner sections.

This provocative text--the product of more than 10 years of instruction and research--is the most comprehensive study to date on the past, present, and future of women and sport. An ideal textbook for upper division undergraduate and graduate students as well as a timely reference for scholars and researchers, Women and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives sets the record straight about the women's sport experience. More than 20 expert contributors examine, analyze, and synthesize the issues su...

"NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training" is the ideal authoritative resource for personal trainers, health and fitness instructors, exercise scientists, and other fitness professionals, as well as the primary preparation source for the NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer[registered] examination. The book includes more than 250 photographs and contributions from leading personal training experts who provide the scientific principles, concepts, and theories of personal training as well as practical ap...

Reference for sport psychologists and coaches. Textbook for graduate courses and seminars in sport psychology.

Crossing Boundaries: An Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport will help you discover, understand, and appreciate the depth and complexity of the female experience in sport. This is a journey to the center of feminine identity, a survey of past and present voices that lead you into the minds, hearts, and souls of women in sport. The largest literary compilation of writings on and by women in sports, Crossing Boundaries serves as a chronology of attitudes and a catalog of experiences. Internat...

This manual guides exercise leaders step-by-step through evaluation in areas such as project planning and data collection, analysis and interpretation. It presents concepts in non-technical language and focuses on a practical application of evaluation techniques. There are nine scenarios that illustrate the usefulness of evaluation for different programmes with diverse clientele, a 12-step guide for conducting focus groups, 17 worksheets and prototypes developed specifically for collecting and a...

This volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series presents a concise summary of the science and practice of psychology in the context of sport. Psychological aspects central to sport performance such as motivation, cognition, stress, confidence, and mental preparation are examined and interventions designed to enhance individual and team performance are reviewed. Reflecting the breadth of the field, issues such as sport injury prevention and rehabilitation, athlete psychopatholog...

Electrical Power Transmission System Engineering: Analysis and Design is devoted to the exploration and explanation of modern power transmission engineering theory and practice. Designed for senior-level undergraduate and beginning-level graduate students, the book serves as a text for a two-semester course or, by judicious selection, the material

This new edition features more information and better on-field applications than its predecessor. The book includes innovative new drills and tactical information to give goalies the edge in every situation. Insight and examples from top goalies and key coaching points by the authors are included to give players and coaches with the performance applications they need to excel. University of Pittsburgh soccer coach Joe Luxbacher and former Pittsburgh Riverhounds goalkeeper coach Gene Klein have m...

This book: -Presents activities that allow all students to succeed-Lets you mix and match activities to create varied daily lesson plans-Ensures that your students are meeting the NASPE standards for skill and fitness development-Includes an activity finder to make it easy to select activities that meet your students' needsMix, Match, and Motivate helps you show elementary students that physical activity can be fun and meaningful. It shifts the emphasis away from competitive games in favor of ac...

Written by the medical coordinator for Major League Soccer and experienced physical therapist who treats athletes of all ages and abilities, an essential book for every player, parent, and coach. Soccer has a higher injury rate than any other contact sport. Student athletes, weekend warriors, and professional players alike all need guidance to prevent the injuries that can put you out of the game. Soccer Injury Prevention and Treatment is your comprehensive, illustrated guide to the best trainin...

This work incorporates methodological case studies to illustrate field techniques in specific sport situations. Ethnographic methods and the fundamentals of fieldwork conveyed through examples of sport ethnography give the reader a familiarity not found in any other ethnography text. It also addresses the recent controversy, both in anthropology and other social science fields, surrounding what the data actually means and how the reader can use the data that is ultimately collected. Professional...

Today, 6.5 million girls nationwide participate in various sports--that's a 37 percent increase since 1970. Females make up more than 41 percent of all high school athletes and 37 percent of all collegiate athletes. Title IX and the shifting attitudes toward girls' participation in sport have created inroads for a whole new generation of athletes. While positive gains have been made, there are still some misconceptions about the positive aspects of females participating in sport. Gender & Sport...

This guide for activity leaders interested in starting or improving a recreation program in any school setting comes complete with ready-made checklists and forms, a tournament selection guide, sample budgets and planning calendars. Among the numerous creative promotional and award ideas are suggestions for banquets and seasonal activities which would help to spur or heighten interest and participation in activities. Key details in policy, budgeting, planning, promotion, management, administrati...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered something he could not ignore. The NFL tried to silence him. His courage would change everything.   “A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to . . . a fabulous, essential read.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks   Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story...

In competitive sports where an extra breath or a millisecond quicker neural response can spell the difference between fame and mediocrity, a number of myths have persisted around the impact of what might be considered megadoses of various vitamins and trace elements. We do know that a growing body of research indicates that work capacity, oxygen consumption, and other measures of physical performance are affected by a deficiency or borderline deficiency in specific vitamins or essential trace el...

Stretching is a fundamentally important part of sport and exercise, playing a role in improving performance, and preventing injury and rehabilitation, but its scientific underpinnings have, to this point, been overlooked in book publishing. The Science and Physiology of Flexibility and Stretching is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book to cover the underlying physiology and psychology of stretching, critically assessing why, when, and how we should stretch, as well as offering a highly ill...