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Fit
"Fit is a book about how to get fit ... facts, practical information, and a logical approach to creating fitness from the first day of training through the day you reach your goal in fitness" -- P. 4 of cover.
Anatomy Without a Scalpel
"The first section lays out basic principles of anatomy and learning anatomy, as it relates to exercise performance and coaching... The second section delivers, from the ground up, a tour of the bones, joints, muscles, and other structures important to the human at work and play." -- p. 4 of cover.
Starting Strength
This book is for anyone serious about learning or coaching the basic lifts.
Practical Programming for Strength Training
3rd edition
Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription
Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription is the definitive resource for learning testing protocols for five physical fitness components--cardiorespiratory capacity, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and balance--and designing personalized exercise programs based on assessment outcomes.
Inside the Box
In Inside the Box, veteran journalist and marathoner T.J. Murphy goes all in to expose the gritty, high-intensity sport of CrossFit®. Murphy faced a future with a permanent limp from one too many marathons. Desperate to reclaim his fitness and strength, the 47-year-old signed up for his first CrossFit® workout with nothing to lose. Anaerobically blasted by each workout of the day, Murphy discovered a sweat-soaked fitness revolution that’s transforming bodies and lives. CrossFit is the sport of fitness, a radical new approach to exercise that is turning the traditional gym workout upside down. Every day at thousands of CrossFit gyms across America, fitness seekers of all shapes and sizes flex their inner athlete by racing to finish fast-paced workouts. Each workout mixes weight lifting and gymnastics into an explosively effective and addictive new way to lose weight and carve out a new physique. Inside the Box is Murphy’s journey through CrossFit. From staggering newcomer to evangelist, Murphy finds out how it feels, why it’s so popular, whether it can fix his broken body.
NPTI’s Fundamentals of Fitness and Personal Training
NPTI’s Fundamentals of Fitness and Personal Training makes the principles and theories of fitness accessible for all readers. Written in a conversational tone with real-life examples, this text helps students understand how the body works and responds to exercise. Readers will learn how to create exercise programs that allow their future clients to accomplish individual fitness goals. This book combines technical detail with practical application in an engaging manner. Anatomical illustrations and photos provide further guidance on the science of personal training, complete with coverage of specific muscle systems and how to train them. Extensive information on essential nutrients, coupled...
Deconstructing Yoga
You've heard countless things about yoga, but you've never seen it like this. Peel back the veneer and dive into the secular, step-by-step substance of physical, practical yoga. The physical sphere of yoga is the foundation on which every other aspect of yoga practice is built. Within these covers, the evolution of yoga and its scientific structure and results are objectively and factually explored. Build your personal yoga skillset with more than 30 essential postures explained in clearly illustrated anatomical and physiological detail. Deconstructing Yoga is a yoga book unlike any other. Whether you are a seasoned yoga practitioner or a complete beginner, its accessible format and innovative "Triplets" Learning and Teaching system will be the new foundation for your yoga fitness experience.
The Combat Position
Firefighting is combat and should be viewed as a warrior's calling. Firefighters put themselves in harm's way to protect others, a selflessness rooted in the same noble drive as the military warriors who defend our nation. This book about combat is meant to be a guide for those who seek to follow a warrior's path, the path of the fire service warrior. Today's firefighter must be a warrior who will unflinchingly put his very life in harm's way to accomplish a mission, but who is also fully informed about the path being chosen. Embracing the philosophy of the fire service warrior, and striving for the ready position--the synthesis of physical and mental readiness that allows for optimum fireground performance--can reduce firefighter injuries and fatalities. The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter Readiness will be an invaluable tool for firefighters, company officers, chief officers, and instructors.
Anatomy Without a Scalpel
In Anatomy without a Scalpel, the author, trainer, scientist, teacher, athlete, and illustrator are a single voice. Professor Lon Kilgore's experiences, education, and perspectives, developed from nearly fifty years working with beginning trainees to those with the very highest levels of fitness, come together to create a uniquely direct resource of words and images that makes the learning of practical anatomy approachable to anyone with an interest in making people more fit. This restructured and rebuilt second edition features new and revised illustrations throughout, added sections and clarifications, and new references and resources to aid in your continued study. In the first section of...
