STEM in Track and Field (Connection STEM and Sports)
by Jacqueline Havelka
A practical handbook on gymnastics for beginners. With an emphasis on safety, this easy-to-use guide takes readers from basic moves through to more advanced stages. A number of skills are explained in step-by step format, including cartwheels, backflips and vaulting.
Looks at how people succeed and reach the top of their chosen sport and what it takes to be World Class. Includes information from basic aptitude and ability, to techniques, fitness, diet and more. Contains fascinating facts about all aspects of each sport. Includes case studies, photographs and diagrams. Features champions and competitors from around the world.
Ultramarathons don't leave much room for mistakes. Don't learn the hard way; get a jump on training for an ultramarathon with Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning, a comprehensive guide to running 30 to 100 miles and beyond, written by one of the most experienced athletes in the sport. Hal Koerner is among America's top ultrarunners with podium results in more than 90 ultramarathons. In his smart, down-to-earth Field Guide, Koerner shares hard-earned wisdom, field-tested habits and practic...
As a teen, it can feel like a challenge to figure out who you are or where you're headed in life, even if you have a goal in mind. Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross knows that firsthand: from a young age, she wanted to be a track and field champion, but the road to achieving that goal-and becoming confident in who she was, the way she looked, and the people and beliefs that mattered most to her on and off the track-was far from easy. In her first book for young adults, Sanya shares her advice and wi...
Inspirational Sport Stories for Kids and Enterprising Little Readers
by Emily Fox
Running can shape a young athlete in healthy, positive ways for the rest of her life. Girls Running offers the guidance and tools girls need to thrive on their running journey, right from the start. With straight talk on training, physiology, menstruation, sports nutrition, a winning mindset, body image issues, gear, team-building, and competition, Girls Running educates and empowers young runners to achieve their potential and love running more. Inspired by high-school phenom Melody Fairchild...
Making Of A Champion: World Class Sprinter Paperback (The Making of a Champion)
This series looks at how people succeed and reach the top of their chosen sport. Each book includes information on basic aptitude and ability, techniques, fitness and training, diet, equipment and much more. It contains fascinating facts about all aspects of the sport. It includes case studies about the sport and its well-known personalities, and features champions and competitors from around the world. Each book contains at least 50 photographs and explanatory diagrams.
A World Class Marathon Runner (The Making of a Champion)
Looks at how people succeed and reach the top of their chosen sport and what it takes to be World Class. Includes information from basic aptitude and ability, to techniques, fitness, diet and more. Contains fascinating facts about all aspects of each sport. Includes case studies, photographs and diagrams. Features champions and competitors from around the world.
Linford Christie (Livewire Real Lives) (Real Lives S.)
by Mike Wilson and Sandra Woodcock
Written by experienced special needs teachers, and fully assessed by The Basic Skills Agency to ensure accessibility in both layout and content, the "Livewire: Real Lives" series features personalities from sport, film and music, politics and history. The Livewire Real Lives series provides stimulating reading materials with a teenage/adult interest level for those with reading ages below ten or for adult students learning English as a foreign language. Facts and photographs sustain the interest...
Gymnastics (Science Behind Sports) (Gymnastics)
by Heather E Schwartz
The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)
by Neal Bascomb