At a time when our sporting heroes are as likely to appear on the front pages of our newspapers as on the back and and when cheating by players and coaches has become a part of the daily discourse, sportsmanship has never been a more timely topic.
Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Principles of Sportsmanship can help those involved in sport tackle the important lessons of sportsmanship by encouraging them to practice and teach respect for opponents, coaches, officials, teammates and the game.
Scooters, children and fun are natural partners. Children love scooting and it’s terrific physical activity, but until now, few books have focused on scooter activities or provided guidance on incorporating them into the curriculum in meaningful ways.
Scooter Games is an easy-to-use book that will help you find creative ways to integrate co-operative, tag, relay, team, or interdisciplinary scooter activities into your curriculum.
Through the use of more than 100 productive and ready-to-use activities in Scooter Games, you can also include other subjects such as maths, health, science, teamwork, sportsmanship and problem solving.
Most children love break and playground time. But there are often some individuals left standing alone watching others play.
Those who have not developed the necessary skills they need to take part in physical activities on the playground are left inactive and isolated, which can lead to long-lasting negative effects on their self-esteem.
Let’s Play! Promoting Active Playgrounds will help you make sure that no children are left on the sidelines watching and waiting for the bell or for a parent to pick them up.
But through Let’s Play!, you can ensure that every child under your care has the repertoire of movement skills to enable them to be physically active in the playground.
In Winning Women’s Lacrosse, renowned coach Kelly Amonte Hiller shares the expertise that has enabled her to develop some of the game’s premier players and made her team a perennial powerhouse.
Winning Women’s Lacrosse covers it all. Through expert instruction, coaching tips and one-of-a-kind insights into the sport, you’ll learn to develop the individual attacking and defensive skills of the game and master the speciality skills of field players and goalkeepers.
Learn to train like champions with sport-specific conditioning drills.
Sharpen individual and team execution with situational drills and
maximize potential by making the most out of practice time.
Learn the fundamentals of squash and enjoy competing in this fast-paced, tactical game.
Whether you already play squash or are just starting out, Squash: Steps to Success teaches the skills and strategies needed in order to play and win.
13 progressive instructional steps, teach all aspects of the game and detailed descriptions, illustrations and photo sequences demonstrate essential on-the-court movement, volleys, serves, returns and drop shots.
The key to successful coaching is preparing your players to make intelligent decisions on the field.
For years, the best-selling Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer has helped coaches of every level do just that. Now, football’s premier coaching resource has been updated and expanded to provide you with more insights into developing individual talent, team tactics and winning play.
Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer provides you with over 125 drills for teaching skills and techniques. You’ll also learn how to develop these skills in realistic game situations with players of all abilities from beginners to future stars.
Essential footballing skills are covered, including receiving and controlling the ball, passing, dribbling, kicking, heading and goalkeeping. You’ll then apply those individual skills with attacking and defensive tactics, team formations and set pieces.
Parkinson’s disease, the most prevalent hypokinetic movement disorder, is expected to occur with increasing frequency among aging populations worldwide.
While we await the discovery of a cure, combining physical interventions with traditional medical interventions can significantly improve overall quality of life. Health Professionals’ Guide to Physical Management of Parkinson’s Disease fills a void in this area of clinical management by comprehensively addressing the physical management of Parkinson’s disease in a single volume.
Written for clinicians, Health Professionals’ Guide to Physical Management of Parkinson’s Disease will prove to be a useful resource for physical therapists as well as other health care professionals who manage patients with Parkinson’s disease.
The text expertly distills and blends diverse research-based sources with the author’s own extensive clinical experience. The result is a concise manual that provides not just the science but also the clinical application necessary in the selection of physical interventions.
The Directory of Sport Science, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive reference work covering the entire field of exercise science.
Written by the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) and a team of international scholars, this book gives readers an informed overview of the sport science field with discussion of key functions, methodology, history, organisations, and resources for each sub-discipline and thematic area.
This book will deepen the common understanding of each prominent area of sport science and strengthen the field as a whole. Readers will gain a clear view of the history and current status of each sub-discipline in exercise science, and they will receive essential information to expand their study of the field and explore their potential contributions to its development and success.
An invaluable reference for those currently working in the field of sports science and for those studying to do so.
The benefits of strength training for young people are clearly documented, but many teachers, fitness instructors and youth coaches are unsure how to proceed.
As a result they often end up adapting unsuitable adult versions of strength-training programmes.
However this new book is set to change all this as it guides you in the development of safe, effective and enjoyable training programmes for 7 to 18 year olds.
It covers the latest thinking on nutrition, hydration and recovery to maximize the effects of strength training and minimize the risks of overtraining.
Motivating kids to exercise just got lot easier thanks to this innovative DVD that incorporates rap with lessons about basic anatomy, healthy lifestyles and fitness.
Hip-Hop Health offers six five-minute health raps in a format that allows teachers to use each segment of physical activity as a short activity break, or all the segments together as a full 30-minute workout without the worry of instruction time or equipment.
The incorporated health raps teach children about muscles, bones, nutrition, flexibility and stretching.
Sport risk management is a key component of any sport and recreation programme and to run it successfully entails looking after the safety and well-being of your participants and the need to protect the best interests of your organisation.
Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation: The Essential Guide for Loss Prevention provides all the tools you need in order to design a bespoke comprehensive risk management plan to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Written specifically for sport and recreation professionals by a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in insurance defence litigation, the book combines information on law, insurance and sports to give you a complete view of all of the issues involved in assessing, controlling and financing your risks.
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory presents current research perspectives from major sport scholars and leading sociologists regarding issues relevant to the sociology of sport.
Each chapter explains historical and contemporary social theories and applies them to current topics in sport, such as performance-enhancing drugs, gender, race and identity issues and the role of religion in sport.
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory introduces readers to the historical and theoretical underpinnings of social theory, how sport studies have incorporated or diverged from these theories and how the application of various sociological insights into sport subjects may form the basis for future research.
Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance, Second Edition, will help students and practitioners understand the function of the nutrients in the body and how these nutrients affect health and athletic performance.
The authors present clear, comprehensive and accurate nutrition information that may be applied to a variety of careers. The text provides students with practical knowledge in exercise and nutrition science and it keeps practitioners on the cutting edge of current research and practices in the field.
Using the authors’ extensive backgrounds in nutrition, exercise physiology and fitness, the text sorts micronutrients into functional groupings to provide an easy framework for understanding how these nutrients can influence exercise performance and good health for both athletes and active individuals.
This unique presentation allows readers to fully understand why proper nutrition helps athletes prevent injury, enhance recovery, improve daily workouts and maintain optimal health and body weight.
Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training shows professionals how to design and implement aquatic rehabilitation and exercise programmes for various groups and individuals of all ages.
Defining the correct aquatic exercise programme for those with functional limitations is challenging in itself, but it is made even more so by limited amount of suitable reference material on the subject.
That situation has now changed following the publication of Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training.
It provides all the information necessary for adapting programmes to suit various types such as injured athletes, older adults and people with special exercise needs, such as patients with cerebral palsy, brain injury and stroke, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training is liberally illustrated and comes with a DVD that demonstrates nearly half of the book’s exercises and highlights key points for each.
The second edition of Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators is a proven text and reference that offers teachers the tools they need in order to include children with disabilities into their programmes.
This completely updated edition builds upon the rock-solid content of the first edition, supplying teachers with new additions such as a CD-ROM from which ready-to-use forms, trainings for peers and paraeducators, rubrics, checklists, assessments and lesson plans can be printed
It also contains a new chapter on support for positive behaviour, with proven methods for managing and improving students’ behaviour and strategies for avoiding behavioural problems.
At a time when our sporting heroes are as likely to appear on the front pages of our newspapers as on the back and and when cheating by players and coaches has become a part of the daily discourse, sportsmanship has never been a more timely topic.
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