Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, introduces exercise and sport biomechanics, using concise terms that explain external forces and their effects, how the body generates forces to maintain or change position, and how forces create movement.

Updated and revised, this volume provides a critical review of the evaluation of high blood pressure. Topics include home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, the relationship between whole-day blood pressure and the cardiovascular disease process, and more.

Going far beyond standard pull-ups, push-ups, and squats, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy presents 156 unique exercises that work every muscle in the body. Detailed anatomical artwork accompanies step-by-step instructions for performing each exercise anytime, anywhere, without the need for equipment or machines.

Explores all aspects of diagnosis and management of sports-related injuries and physical activity such as the fundamental principles of sports medicine, diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries, enhancement of sports performance and dealing with special groups of participants.

This comprehensive guide for soccer conditioning includes proven techniques to improve speed, strength, power, and agility; position-specific training guidelines; and injury prevention, management, and return-to-play protocols.

'Critical Readings in Bodybuilding' is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity.

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.

Helps readers to see what it takes to maximise cycling power, speed and endurance. This title offers readers the knowledge to improve their performance by increasing muscular strength and optimising the efficiency of every movement. It features 74 effective cycling exercises with step-by-step descriptions and full-colour anatomical illustrations.

Cycling Anatomy includes 89 of the most effective cycling exercises, each with clear step-by-step descriptions, to help increase your cycling speed, strength, and endurance. Full-color anatomical illustrations highlight the active muscles to increase your understanding.

In the fourth edition of Daniels' Running Formula, legendary running coach Jack Daniels has refined his revolutionary VDOT system, providing more precise training pace plans and expanding coverage of ultradistance training, triathlon preparation, and training in challenging environments.

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.

Features full-colour photographs and detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for slimming, shaping and toning the core, bottom and legs. Whether looking to eliminate love handles, tighten glutes, or add definition to the legs, this book presents the exercises, programming and advice for the results you want.

With over 550 full colour photos and illustrations, this title lets you go inside more than 130 exercises to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations, progressions and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results.

The popularity of endurance sports continues to grow worldwide. Now, from the National Strength and Conditioning Association comes the definitive resource for developing the endurance training programs that maximize performance and minimize injuries.

Diet Lies and Weight Loss Truths offers practical, evidence-based guidance on choosing the right diet plan to effectively and safely lose excess weight and keep it off. Sample meal plans from a registered dietitian and a comparison of pros and cons of popular diet trends will help you make lasting lifestyle changes.

This book examines the phenomenon of 'digital guru media' (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness.

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.