Youth Football: A Complete Handbook

Youth Football: A Complete Handbook Review

Coaching Youth Football: A Complete Handbook is the most comprensive guide available on coaching youth football. This book is part of the Coaching Youth Sports Series written by members of the Youth Sports Institute of Michigan State University.

In Fitness And In Health

In Fitness And In Health Review

In the new 5th edition of “In Fitness and In Health,” Dr. Phil Maffetone describes how to self-manage your own personal health-care program. For more than three decades, Dr. Maffetone has been treating and advising patients, coaching athletes, lecturing worldwide, and writing books about the importance of self-health care. This edition contains new information about organic foods, sunshine, gut health, and more. With this valuable book, you'll learn the real truth about optimizing your diet for physical and mental performance and making healthy dietary choices, obtaining the best nutrition from real food, avoiding disease, learning to listen to your body, the dangers of common dietary supplements, fat-burning exercise for weight loss and health, recognizing and eliminating sources of stress, increasing energy levels for all aspects of life, using music to improve brain function and awareness, controlling inflammation and hormonal imbalance and much more.

Ultimate Sports Nutrition

Ultimate Sports Nutrition Review

Emphasizing the importance of meeting vital nutritional needs every day at a level of active sports participation, this unique comprehensive approach to all levels of sports nutrition pays particular attention to the role of ergogenic aids (supplements both legal and questionable).

Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included)

Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included) Review

Improve Your Eyesight teaches you how to use your eyes more efficiently to see better. In many cases, you can improve so much that glasses are no longer necessary. You retrain your eyes to work better using skill building techniques. It works if you are: nearsighted, farsighted, astigmatism, lazy eye, double vision, decreasing vision with age, and more! INCLUDES 1 HOUR & 30 MINUTE VIDEO with 16 easy to follow eye exercises, plus an eye chart to plot your progress. It updates the Bates Method with the most recent research techniques. Almost all seeing is self taught. Learn how to see better by developing visual skills.

Youth Sports: Perspectives for a New Century

Youth Sports: Perspectives for a New Century Review

Proceedings of a conference hosted by the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University, 23-26 May 1999. Youth Sports—Perspectives for a New Century presents a unique blend of discussions of organized sport for children from the research and applied perspectives. The first part of the volume offers comprehensive discussions of biological and health-related issues in youth sports: Growth and maturation, regulation of puberty, cardiac characteristics, dehydration and rehydration, responsiveness to training, injury profiles, and genetic advances in the sport sciences. The second part of the volume offers corresponding discussions of social and psychological issues in youth sports: Social influences, parental roles, attrition and dissatisfaction, anxiety, overtraining and burnout, moral dimensions, and abuse of power.

Careers w/o College: FITNESS (Careers Without College)

Careers w/o College: FITNESS (Careers Without College) Review

The fitness industry: fun, physical and constantly changing to keep up with the latest research and newest equipment. Find out what it takes to break in and make your mark as a: group exercise instructor, sports massage therapist, sales and service staff member, personal trainer, floor staffer.

The Physiotherapist's Pocket Guide to Exercise: Assessment, Prescription and Training (Physiotherapy Pocketbooks)

The Physiotherapist's Pocket Guide to Exercise: Assessment, Prescription and Training (Physiotherapy Pocketbooks) Review

This book is for therapists involved in exercise therapy for the prevention and treatment of disease. It covers exercise assessment, current prescription guidelines, precautions, exercise design and clinical case studies. The book also includes exercises to increase strength, power, local muscle endurance, range of movement and aerobic capacity and will be relevant to all areas of therapy practice. In addition to the general guidelines, considerations for exercise groups and exercise at home as well as exercise in special patient populations are addressed. This allows therapists who are expert in one area to become familiar with exercise prescription in another. The book underpins therapeutic exercise in general and also addresses specific considerations for particular clinical situations within current guidelines and practical considerations.

• Underpinning exercise physiology
• Physical principles of exercise design
• Guidelines for exercise training
• Clinical exercise prescription
• Limitations to exercise in common conditions
• Example case studies