Physical Education category: 327 books

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Perdus sans la nature

Pourquoi les jeunes ne jouent plus dehors et comment y remédier

by François Cardinal
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2012

Tout le monde le constate : les enfants jouent de moins en moins dehors. Mais est-ce un problème ? Certainement, répond François Cardinal. Collés à la télévision, à l’ordinateur, à la console de jeu, les jeunes sont plus sédentaires que jamais. Ils ont de moins en moins accès aux...
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Yoga Adjustments

Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques

by Mark Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

The quintessential guide to yoga assisting and hands-on teaching, Yoga Adjustments introduces the art and practice of providing yoga assists to yoga students. Addressing one of the most important topics in the yoga field, expert yoga instructor and best-selling author Mark Stephens covers the philosophy...
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Sitting on a Chicken

The Best (Ever) 52 Yoga Games to Teach in Schools

by Michael Chissick
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

The best way to teach yoga to children is with games. With 52 vibrant, easy-to-follow yoga games requiring no previous yoga experience, this book will enable you to help children become better listeners, take responsibility, gain self-control, improve behaviour, become assertive and improve self-esteem...
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Fine Tuning Your Team's Position Play

Fine Tuning Series, #4

by Kevin Sivils
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013

Coaches always want to improve their teams. Usually they go about this by searching for the perfect offense or defense. Few coaches stop to realize one of the best ways to improve their team is to improve their players. Fine Tuning Your Team's Position Play provides position specific concepts...
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by Carrie Wingate, John Donohue, Eliot Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

        In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
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by Pamela S. Haibach-Beach, Greg Reid, Douglas H. Collier
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Motor Learning and Development, Second Edition With Web Resource, provides a foundation for understanding how humans acquire and continue to hone their movement skills throughout the life span. These fundamentals will give students the tools they need to create, apply, and evaluate motor skill programs...
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The Sports Coach as Educator

Re-conceptualising Sports Coaching

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006

Teaching athletes to improve their performance is the essence of sports coaching. In response to new government-led initiatives to invest in and develop coaching, this book is the first introduction to pedagogical theory for coaching. Bringing helpful insights from educational theory to bear on coaching...
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by Lawrence Farncombe
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

This book can be said to be the first all-in-one guide to competition for powerlifters. Created and developed by Great Britain’s head powerlifting coach, the 1RM Method is more than just a program it shows athletes step-by-step, how to take the guesswork out of determining the maximum load possible...
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by Ross Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation in Sport examines the key factors at play in the reduction and prevention of injury to athletes at all levels of sport. The book combines the latest scientific research with a critical review of current literature and the author's own personal experience working...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010

Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? Despite the increasing sophistication of our understanding of the player-sport-coach relationship, the dominant perspective of the sports coach is still an instrumental...
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Youth Culture and Sport

Identity, Power, and Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is one of the most widely used counselling approaches in the world and is one of the original forms of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in Sport and Exercise is the first and only book to date to examine the use of REBT in...
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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?

Confronting 21st Century Philistinism

by Professor Frank Furedi
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2006

In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.
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Sport and Exercise Science

An Introduction

by Dean Sewell, Philip Watkins, Murray Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

Sport and Exercise Science: An Introduction provides a broad-based foundation in the major areas that underpin the scientific study of sport and exercise science, thus helping undergraduate students to develop a sound understanding of human anatomy, physiology, nutrition, metabolism, biomechanics...
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