Offers a strength training system for high school and college athletes in the USA. This title helps establish the solid foundations needed to compete successfully and advance athletes. It imparts the fundamental exercise techniques and drills necessary for developing strength, power, agility and speed for various sports.
Creative Physical Education offers a creative extended learning experience centered on the development, performance, organization, and analysis of teamwork, student-created games, a season, and practice activities. This all-in-one resource contains both a teacher's guide and a student workbook, plus a CD-ROM containing the project worksheets, which can be modified and printed for class use.
The pace of technological improvements has been such that cycling has often been likened to Formula 1 racing on two wheels. Rather than examining the research into old-school ideas, many coaches and athletes blindly accept them simply because they've been handed down through the generations. This title questions the validity of old-school ideas.
Features over 200 full colour illustrations of 82 of the most effective dance, movement and performance exercises. This title depicts the relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movements. It helps you learn how to modify exercises to target specific areas enhancing flexibility and reducing muscle tension.
Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Second Edition, retains its scientific perspective while offering greater accessibility to a wider audience. The streamlined approach makes the content more accessible in a single undergraduate course, and the text comes with a suite of online ancillaries.
Provides dancers and dance teachers with an understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance. This book features 300 illustrations that cover the major topics, showing exercises to use in technique, artistic expression and performance.
Features practicing dance educators, choreographers, critics and scholars, who have a distinguished record of scholarship and practice in the field of dance education. This book expands on the discourse and curriculum of dance in ways that connect it to the critical, political, moral and aesthetic dimensions of our contemporary social lives.
A guide to increasing core strength, stability and flexibility. Whether you're just beginning your routine or looking to enhance an existing conditioning programme, it features over 100 exercises and 60 programmes to show how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures.