Individual Sports category: 1455 books
Step Up Your Game
The Revolutionary Program Elite Athletes Use to Increase Performance and Achieve Total Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
As a sports and wellness medicine practitioner whose clients include Olympic and professional athletes, triathletes, and weekend warriors, Dr. Naresh Rao has uncovered the secrets of how and why elite athletes consistently perform at the highest levels. In Step Up Your Game, he reveals what separates...
Hardcore History
The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was one extreme contradiction on top of another. An incredibly influential-but never profitable-company in the world of professional wrestling in the 1990s, it portrayed itself as the ultimate in anti-authority rebellion, but its leadership was working covertly...
Legends of Pro Wrestling
150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first...
Backlund
From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made a lot of bad choices. He was a kid whose life...
Raising Your Game
Over 100 Accomplished Athletes Help You Guide Your Girls and Boys Through Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Americas children are joiningand quittingyouth sports in record numbers. If kids cant find the fun in an activity, they may try to find the way out. If an adult cant find the right tools, they may not know the right words to say or the right actions to take. In Raising Your Game, authors Ethan J....
Sport Psychology: The Basics
Optimising Human Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This comprehensive and accessible resource can be used as textbook or a self-help book and is aimed at students, athletes, coaches, sport scientists or indeed any-one looking to enhance their performance, whatever their sport or activity. The psychological concepts may even be useful for those working...
Amped
How Big Air, Big Dollars, and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
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Amped is the first comprehensive account of the history, culture, and business of action sports-skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, and freestyle motocross. Journalist David Browne interviews more than 100 athletes, pioneers, industry executives, manufacturers, and the adolescent...
by Dr. Baljit Singh Sekhon
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
the book Dictionary of Shooting Sports. Seeing the potential in the area of Shooting sports it is essential that the practitioners or would be practitioners are aware of technical terms and terminology frequently used in the international shooting arena.
by Jose Silva
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
You've seen athletes do it in all sports:
*Members of the Olympic bobsled team just before their run, eyes closed, their bodies swaying back and forth as they visualize the run.
*Professional basketball players mimicking the free throw, picturing it mentally, before actually taking the ball...
The Performance Cortex
How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
“A must-read for the cerebral sports fan…like Moneyball except nerdier. Much nerdier.”
--Sports Illustrated
Why couldn't Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, crush a baseball? Why can't modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks...
by Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components (one or the other) makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or...
The Endurance Handbook
How to Achieve Athletic Potential, Stay Healthy, and Get the Most Out of Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? The Endurance Handbook teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many productive years. Dr. Philip Maffetone’s approach to endurance...
Le Livre des sports athlétiques et des jeux de plein air
Rédigé par un groupe de spécialistes sous la direction de M. Henry Claremont
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Il est bien entendu, pour les étymologistes érudits et pour les revendicateurs professionnels de la propriété nationale, que le football n'est pas autre chose que le follis des Romains, et que ce noble jeu d'essence latine comme notre race, nous est simplement revenu de l'autre côté...
by Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
It is, without question, an incident that defined an era in sports entertainment and marked - if not tainted - the legacies of two of the greatest professional wrestlers in modern history. It was a memorable and some say disgraceful event that is universally known today by just one word: Montreal.The...