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Authors Cedric X. Bryant, PhD, Barry A. Franklin, PhD, and Sabrena Newton-Merrill, MS, present a second edition of this best-selling, essential resource for fitness professionals. This remarkable work offers in-depth, easy- to-understand and apply sections on Aerobic Testing and Training (with chapters on pre-exercise screening, aerobic field tests, the scientific basis of aerobic fitness, exercise programming, conditioning the upper body, cross-training principles and guidelines), Musculoskeletal Testing and Training (with chapters on measuring musculoskeletal fitness, developing a strength training program, developing a flexibility program, strength training for children and youth, women, ...
Exercise for Older Adults: ACE's Guide for Fitness Professionals offers the essential information fitness professionals need to provide older adults with safe and effective fitness programming, from the physiology of aging to the techniques and tools for motivating and communicating with older adults. Personal trainers, activity directors, health educators and fitness facility managers are among those who will benefit from this valuable resource.
Learn how to apply the science of exercise physiology to your exercise programs and to solve the problems you’ll encounter every day in practice. You’ll explore the principles of movement on which exercise is based, while you develop the confidence you need to create individualized exercise programs based on current lifestyles, schedules, and abilities, and properly progress those fitness programs through the stages of the ACE IFT training model.
Wellness in Mind: Your Brain's Surprising Secrets to Gaining Health from the Inside Out takes on the widespread clichés that dominate the fields of fitness and nutrition. The authors guide readers toward the goal of developing a focus on being image, the total experience of being in collaboration with and through others to co-create a world of comprehensive wellness. In its three parts, Wellness in Mind explores knowledge that can transform health, reflection to cultivate wellness habits, and interaction with others to enhance life and health. Wellness in Mind: Your Brain's Surprising Secrets to Gaining Health from the Inside Out explains the brain's power to create neural pathways that support healing of one's total being, explores the brain's work to encode relationships with self and others, and inspires readers to develop their own relationships with complete wellness.
Obesity and overweight pose significant challenges to the armed forces in the United States, affecting service members (including active duty, guard, and reserve components), veterans, retirees, and their families and communities. The consequences of obesity and overweight in the armed forces influence various aspects of its operations that are critical to national security. On May 7, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, held a workshop titled "Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces." Speakers examined how obesity and overweight are measured in the armed forces and how they affect recruitment, retention, resili...
From America’s #1 women’s fitness magazine, with six million readers each issue, comes the Ultimate Body Book, the follow-up to the bestseller Shape Your Life. Linda Shelton, Shape magazine’s fitness director, shows you how to achieve your best body the Shape way. This means getting lean and toned, having high energy, and possessing the head-to-toe confidence that comes from knowing you’re at your personal peak of health and well-being.
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Step-by-step instructions on how to develop the traits and skills necessary for successful linebacker play.
101 Linebacker Drills features a comprehensive compilation of drills designed to develop and enhance all basic skills attendant to linebacker play. Each drill is well-illustrated in an easy-to-understand style. The array of topics covered includes: warm-up drills, stance drills, movement drills, tackling drills, shedding blockers drills, pass defense drills, run defense drills, and pass rushing drills.