Bloomsbury Sport imprint: 203 books

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands

by Harry Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2020

Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Flanders is the size of East Anglia with population a tenth of that of Great Britain, yet this small corner of north-west Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France,...
by Allan Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

A kettlebell is a weight that looks like a cannonball with a handle. Originating from Russia, kettlebell training is now a global phenomenon with clubs, gyms and individuals investing in equipment and training. Weights range from 4kg to 48kg. They differ from dumbbells and barbells in that the centre...
by Christopher M. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

The Complete Guide to Abdominal Training replaces Abdominal Training 2nd edition*.* Fully updated, in full colour, this new book is packed with exercises and colour photographs to help coaches, fitness trainers and athletes improve their abdominal training programme. This book will be the abdominal...

Marathon Running

From Beginner to Elite, 4th edition

by Mr Richard Nerurkar
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

"I've learned so much from Richard about marathon running. If you want to run a marathon, or a faster one, you have to read his book!" Haile Gebrselassie, first athlete to run a sub-2:04 Marathon "Richard's achievements as a world-class distance runner speak for themselves. His...

The Pop-up Gym

How to Keep Fit Wherever You Are

by Jon Denoris
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

Fitness trainer to a host of busy people including actors, TV presenters and politicians, Jon Denoris has created a series of exercises and routines, most of which can be carried out almost anywhere: in the home, at work or outdoors. Hardly any of them require any equipment. Dumbbells and a medicine...

How to Win at 5-a-Side

Take Your Team to the Next Level

by Mr Nick Ascroft
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

The culmination of years of 5-a-side football experience, this celebrated manual to 'scaled-down' soccer success covers every element of the game and features expert advice on how to organise a winning team. Written with authority, passion and a sense of fun, How to Win at 5-a-side covers all...

Soccer Training

Games, Drills and Fitness Practices

by Malcolm Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

Soccer Training: Games, Drills and Fitness Practices brings together games and routines recommended by some of the world's top coaches. A practical training handbook for soccer coaches, it contains over 60 practices and drills aimed at developing specific skills, from controlling and passing the ball...
by Alex Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014

The Soccer Goalkeeping Handbook is the authoritative and comprehensive coaching guide to the most important position on the soccer field. It identifies the components that form the essential skills of any goalkeeper, and how these work within the five goalkeeping roles: shot stopping, dealing with...

I'll See You Out There

Arsenal, Manchester United and the Premier League's Greatest Rivalry

by Mr Rob Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2022

The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations...

The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness

A non-contact boxing training manual

by Hilary Lissenden
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

A comprehensive, practical guide to non-contact boxing - looks at workouts in an individual, group or class setting. Learn how to improve clients' body composition, heart-lung stamina, strength, speed, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. It also covers boxing training's less tangible but equally...
by David Archer, Mr Morc Coulson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

The Advanced Fitness Instructor's Handbook follows on from The Fitness Instructor's Handbook. It is the first textbook to cover the National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications framework for Level 3 and Level 4 Instructors teaching Exercise and Fitness - required to teach one-on-one, and the standards which gyms are increasingly expecting staff to attain.

Strength and Conditioning for Cyclists

Off the Bike Conditioning for Performance and Life

by Phil Burt, Martin Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018

Phil Burt and Martin Evans have worked with the world's best cyclists, including the Great Britain Cycling Team, devising and implementing highly effective off the bike training plans. Now, in Strength and Conditioning for Cyclists you can benefit from their wealth of knowledge and experience and...

Sod Seventy!

The Guide to Living Well

by Sir Muir Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Many of the problems older people suffer from have, as their underlying cause, a fundamental loss of fitness. Others are caused by preventable diseases (with these even being preventable after the age of seventy) and, broadly speaking, from the wrong approach to life, influenced by negative social...
by Gerald Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

'Golf is a funny game ... Many books have been written on the art of playing Golf, but few have attempted to give any record of the subtle humour which belongs to all sports of Scottish origin, and to Golf in particular.' So said the original blurb when first published in 1914, and though a large...
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