Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. This guide shows you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries.

A title, in which the approach taken remains an integrated balance of qualitative and quantitative examples, applications, and problems designed to illustrate the principles discussed.It includes numerous sample problems and applications, along with practical advice on approaching quantitative problems.

Helps students learn to appreciate the consequences of external forces, how the body generates internal forces to maintain position, and how forces create movement in physical activities. This title also offers a link to an accompanying web resource that includes all of the problems from the book, separated by chapter, and 10 sample problems.

Written and edited by the same researchers who proposed and validated these methods, this book not only presents innovative methods for an efficient training and testing process (most of which are based on very simple technology and data processing methods), but also discusses the associated background information.

Drawing on contemporary culture, this book introduces readers to the key concerns and debates surrounding the study of the sociological body.

Contains more than 100 drills to improve sport-specific quickness and agility. This title focuses on improving athletes' fleetness of foot, speed of change of direction and reaction time. Applicable across almost every sport, it explains the purposes behind the training, presents tests to gauge ability and monitor progress.

Presents a classification system of mechanical pain syndromes that is designed to direct the exercise prescription and the correction of faulty movement patterns. This book gives practitioners an organized method of analyzing the mechanical cause of movement impairment syndrome, the contributing factors and a strategy for management.

Deals with the wonders of human movement and applied anatomy. This title is intended for students of human performance. It considers fundamental movements such as posture, walking, running, jumping, throwing, kicking and lifting, together with selected exercise and sport movements.

This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.

Describes motor development during the first two years of a child's life, focusing mainly on the first year, during which the greatest changes occur in relation to the entire life span. This text is useful for students studying motor development and motor behaviour, and also for motor development, motor behaviour, and early childhood specialists.

Uses the model of constraints (or dynamical systems) approach in discussing reasons for changes in movement throughout the life span. This title encourages students to observe and examine how the interactions of the individual, environment, and task affect changes in a person's movements.

Offers an overview of how the brain and nervous system control movement, and how new movements are learned and improved. This book covers topics that provide foundation knowledge needed for individuals working in the movement context as a teacher, coach, or therapist. It is suitable for students studying sports-related courses.

A reference book for researchers in human movement sciences and related fields; textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate level courses

Offers a practical approach to biomechanics and motion analysis by illustrating mechanical and mathematical principles with real-world examples. This book explains the principles of mechanics and covers various aspects of kinematics and kinetics. Basic principles are illustrated with actual data obtained in laboratory settings.

Mechanics and biomechanics are essential subjects to a range of health care professionals.

In the highly technical field of biomechanics, research methods are frequently upgraded as the speed and sophistication of software and hardware technologies increase. This second edition features more than 100 new pieces of art and illustrations and chapters introducing various techniques and areas of research.

Provides an introduction to statistics concepts and techniques and their applications to exercise science-related areas. This title helps students will learn to use statistical tools to analyze quantitative data and then apply that knowledge to many of the common questions and problems they will encounter as they continue their studies.