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1) Champions
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nutrition, mindset, and workout strategies-an integrative guide to endurance training
Whether you're training for marathons, triathlons, ultras or anything in between, every endurance athlete should understand the lifestyle and training approaches that build athletic capacity-and protect it over time. Holistic Endurance Training is an in-depth guide to Responsive Endurance Training (RET) that will help you cultivate more energy and stamina while...
Author
Language
English
Description
The ease with which one can participate in pickleball is one of the factors that contribute to the sport's widespread popularity. Pickleball is a sport that can be played with only a few fundamental items of equipment, in contrast to other sports that require a significant amount of specialized gear and extensive training. A pickleball paddle, a ball, and a court are all that are required to play the sport of pickleball. Because of this, it is a cheap...
Author
Language
English
Description
The unusual sensation of freedom that comes with horseback riding is a large part of the sport's attraction. A burst of adrenaline will race through your veins as you mount a horse and direct it through broad pastures or down twisting trails. You feel an exceptional connection with the natural world as the brisk wind whips past your face, the rhythmic sound of hooves striking the ground reverberates, and the strength beneath you produces an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he'd enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper. This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major...
6) Uneven Bars
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Ever wonder what it takes to be an uneven bars champion? Find out the tips and tricks to spinning, tucking, and sticking an uneven bars routine, as well as the legends that have shaped the sport into how we know it today.
7) Vaulting
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Vaulting takes a lot more than just a run and jump onto a springboard. It requires preparation, practice, and understanding of this unique event. A gymnast that dedicates her time and effort could one day see her name next to one of the great vaulting legends. Here gymnasts will learn what it takes to be successful.
8) Balance Beam
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Leaps, turns, and handsprings are hard enough, but a beam is added, difficulty is maximized. In this book gymnasts will learn the best tips and tricks to conquering the balance beam.
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Floor exercise requires a lot from a gymnast. You need artistry, precision, and skill. But the feeling you get when you stick a complicated tumbling pass, makes all your hard work and dedication worth it. Learn everything you need to know to compete in floor exercise.
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The author presents a general view on sports training, its eriodization, and the role of coordination in the initial stages of preparation in volleyball. He also deals with inter-gender differences in levels of such abilities, describing motor tests for the assessment of coordination potential and providing the reader with standards for the development of talented players. Based on the nature of volleyball, the author analyses key features of sports...
Publisher
Finnish Literature Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has attracted little research, despite the fact that since the First World War such public and private areas – from football pitches and running tracks to golf courses and tennis courts – have often...
Author
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The present chapter will provide an overview of the existing literature and a description of the relationship between the training elements of Soccer Fitness, the training-induced effects of Soccer Fitness on cardiovascular, metabolic and musculoskeletal fitness, and the potential of Soccer Fitness for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases
Author
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption.
Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performance. The high level of training, combined with intense competition and pressure from media and sponsors, can be challenging for athletes and sporting bodies to negotiate. This book explores how these factors...
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Extensive literature emphasizes the positive effects of (neuromuscular training) NT on muscular fitness and health in non-athletic youth. However, findings from NT studies in non-athletic youth were frequently translated to youth athletes which is not feasible because physiology and proficiency in motor performance differ markedly between non-athletic and athletic populations. Therefore, more research is needed on the impact of NT on muscular fitness
...Author
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
"Ce fut alors que je pris la décision de partir seul. Abandonnant ma carrière d'ingénieur, je cherchai, une année durant, dans tous les ports français, un bateau dont je pusse assurer la manœuvre sans aide. Il y a deux ans et demi, visitant sur son yacht mon ami Ralph Stock, auteur de la Croisière du «Dream-Ship», je découvris à l'ancre, dans un port anglais, un petit bateau. C'était le Firecrest..."
[Source: Préface]
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by equipment design, injury prevention by design of resort features, and more). It brings together a collection of papers from the International Congress on Ski Trauma and Safety (the biennal meeting of the International Society for Skiing Safety)...
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the past, ‘traditional’ moderate-intensity continuous training (60-75% peak heart rate) was the type of physical activity most frequently recommended for both athletes and clinical populations (cf. American College of Sports Medicine guidelines). However, growing evidence indicates that high-intensity interval training (80-100% peak heart rate) could actually be associated with larger cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic function
...Author
Publisher
Albert Cogswell
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
François Baucher (1796–1873) was a French riding master whose methods are still debated by dressage enthusiasts today. His 'New Method of Horsemanship' comprises a manual for training both horse and rider, and seems aimed primarily at horses involved in cavalry maneuvers. [Source: Wikipedia]
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An historically interesting manual for women on the sport of "horsemanship" (in the English style), including chapters on training, proper tack, riding etiquette, jumping, and advice on the sort of horse to buy and to avoid. Accompanied by black and white illustrations.
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