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Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs—specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)—provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the hopes of attracting professional scouts and Division I recruiters. However, as a result of their st...

Hunting Success Begins Here! In Tom Dokken's Retriever Training, America's leading trainer helps you channel your hunting dog's huge ambition so he works for you, the way you want, and does so happily. After using the time-tested methods in Tom Dokken's Retriever Training, you'll have a reliable retriever that:    • Obeys commands on- and off-leash    • Retrieves birds to hand    • Remains steady to shot    • Quarters and flushes upland game    • Finds downed birds    • Takes hand signals

Featuring an amazing cast of historical figures, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt led an American sports and fitness revolution. Give up exercise, Theodore Roosevelt was told by a doctor while attending Harvard, or you might die of a heart attack! This after being plagued by crippling asthma, myopic eyesight, and other ailments as a child. Roosevelt's body was his weakness, the one hill he could never conquer. But, oh, how he tried! In vivid detail, The Strenuous...

"Teaching Exercise to Children" is for all those individuals who prescribe exercise programmes to children of ages 10-16, in schools, gyms and after-school clubs. The only book on the market to combine both current theoretical and practical aspects, its content is linked to the Health and Fitness National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications Framework requirements for Teaching Exercise and Fitness for Children. The author backs up the theory with multi-skills session plans, which are gr...

Physical education curricula evolved to emphasize physical training, personal hygiene, character development, fitness development, sports competency, and health. These emphases led to different ways to conceptualize the curricula for primary and secondary schools. This book raises a need to re-conceptualize the physical education curriculum and proposes a life-scan perspective for physical education curriculum conceptualization. Reconceptualizing Physical Education proposes a conceptual framew...

Being a new youth baseball coach can feel like stepping into the batter's box and facing a 100mph ball. Coaching Youth Baseball will relieve your first time coaching jitters and put you on the base path to success. Coaching Youth Baseball helps you manage your team with confidence. This age-specific, field-tested coaching guide prepares you all eventualities in baseball. These include establishing proper priorities as a coach, communicating with players, officials and parents, and teaching baseb...

Boxed overviews provide key messages from key thinkers in social justice educationCase studies overview examples used in practice that are from each of the authors practiceSample resources are used to highlight key praxis messagesPersonal examples from the authors are used as we bring coaches, teachers, teacher educators, empirical researchers and theorist perspectives to the work that will bring it to life

Bailee Kate and her dog Thor love to play soccer, but Thor always gets in the way. Coach says the team shouldn't act like Thor because it is puppy guarding. See if they have learned as they take on the fierce Yellow Dragons. This fully illustrated book is intended to help youth soccer players break the bee-swarming kick and pack-chase mentality as children begin to comprehend spacial relationships to one another on the field of play. iPlaySoccer! Books are instructional stories focused on advanc...

This book was developed to help you, the student athlete, reach your performance potential through the process of learning and practicing mental skills training techniques. In Mental Skills Training for Sport you will learn the hands-on mental training tools needed to develop mental toughness in both sport and life. By developing the mental tools for success, you will be able to respond well under pressure, sustain enjoyment in your sport, and experience the best that competition has to offer. B...

Now available in Spanish! Stretch your way to a fun and healthy lifestyle with each of the yoga poses in this colourful deck. 50 illustrated cards include forward bends, back bends, partner poses and balance poses. Perfect for the home, classrooms, summer programs and more. AGES: 4 plus AUTHOR: Tara Guber is a yogini and community activist both at heart and in action. She is the founder of Yoga Ed., a nationally recognised yoga program used in Pre-K and K-12 schools. She and her husband have f...

How can a magic tree, a cow with a fidgety son, or a wise lion teach kids about being kinder, calmer, and stronger? With yoga! In Let’s Play Yoga!, these and other colorful characters promote balance and discernment—through creative stories kids can read on their own, all grounded in traditional yoga poses. This vibrant book also includes: Step-by-step, illustrated instructions for 13 poses Kid-friendly descriptions of the ten principles of yoga, from honesty to nonviolence A note to...

Little Teammate: Let’s Play Soccer is the story of a child who experiences a father’s unconditional love that teaches children important values as they begin to play sports. The story contrasts two memorable moments, when Little Teammate makes the goal, and when Little Teammate misses the goal. In both scenarios, the father's response is delight in his child. The reassuring words of the Father—I love you when you make the goal. I love you when you miss the goal. I love you because you are my Lit...

How to Ensure That Your Children Are Given The Opportunity to Succeed at Sports Fifty million parents are hopeful their little superstars are on track to play college sports and win a scholarship, but more than forty-nine million may end up being disappointed. Win The Youth Sports Game is the first title ever to provide an honest reality-check for parents-a What to Expect When You are Expecting for youth sports. Fifty incredibly common, adult-imposed obstacles are exposed so that parents can...