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The definitive guide to how strength and conditioning (S&C) can be effectively applied in football. S&C is well established as a cornerstone of sports science in elite sport, and is now a key part in the preparation and training of professional footballers, helping to make players more robust, more efficient and more explosive. This comprehensive manual covers all aspects that contribute to successful practice so that training and playing time lost to injury is reduced. This guide deals with much more than a list of exercises. Based on experience at Premier League level, critical topics include: · Effective coaching · Injury prevention · Performance monitoring · Performance enhancement This book is a unique resource for existing and aspiring football S&C coaches as well as sports science graduates. In a developing field, this pioneering text will help to shape and define the role of the S&C coach within football to help players at all levels of the game.
Strength & Conditioning for Triathlon is an accessible, practical introduction to strength and conditioning for endurance sports, dispelling many of the myths which have led to misunderstanding and misuse of the techniques in the past. With specific chapters on injury prevention, the swim, the cycle and the run, this ideal triathlon companion gives detailed and practical examples of how each aspect of your programme can be enhanced. Each chapter includes information on how strength and conditioning will impact on you, the scientific evidence (in practical language) to support the claims, how much you can expect to gain and practical examples of how to implement the training. An indispensable practical guide, it looks at how to plan your strength and conditioning training throughout the calendar and how to incorporate this work into your regular triathlon training. It also provides a comprehensive resource of conditioning exercises, strength exercises and running drills, all of which are fully illustrated so you can guarantee great technique. This is the essential companion to anyone wishing to improve their triathlon results.
Saving for Retirement will relieve confusion and barriers to action for Americans who are increasingly worried about retirement. The book removes everything from the readers’ path that typically trips people up and hits the sweet spot for everyone aged 18 to 60. Using new figures (including troubling new projections of healthcare and long-term care costs), Gail MarkJarvis helps readers calculate exactly how much money they’ll need and how to get there. She presents easy, proven investing strategies for anyone at any age that will transform pocket change into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Packed with her readers’ personal stories, this book teaches powerful professional financial planning principles — but makes them simple enough for anyone to apply on their own.
In a business where great risks, huge fortunes, and even bigger egos are common, Larry Ellison stands out as one of the most outspoken, driven, and daring leaders of the software industry. The company he cofounded and runs, Oracle, is the number one business software company: perhaps even more than Microsoft's, Oracle's products are essential to today's networked world. But Oracle is as controversial as it is influential, as feared as it is revered, thanks in large part to Larry Ellison. Though Oracle is one of the world's most valuable and profitable companies, Ellison is not afraid to suddenly change course and reinvent Oracle in the pursuit of new and ever more ambitious goals. Softwar ex...
Strength & Conditioning for Triathlon is an accessible, practical introduction to strength and conditioning for endurance sports, dispelling many of the myths which have led to misunderstanding and misuse of the techniques in the past. With specific chapters on injury prevention, the swim, the cycle and the run, this ideal triathlon companion gives detailed and practical examples of how each aspect of your programme can be enhanced. Each chapter includes information on how strength and conditioning will impact on you, the scientific evidence (in practical language) to support the claims, how much you can expect to gain and practical examples of how to implement the training. An indispensable practical guide, it looks at how to plan your strength and conditioning training throughout the calendar and how to incorporate this work into your regular triathlon training. It also provides a comprehensive resource of conditioning exercises, strength exercises and running drills, all of which are fully illustrated so you can guarantee great technique. This is the essential companion to anyone wishing to improve their triathlon results.
In a world where many animals can talk, an exuberant Jack Russell and his person must conquer foes and race across the world in an adventure of a lifetime! When Gizzmo, the technologically talented cat from next door, tells Ned about a robbery at the local shop, he immediately gets his person to take him for a walk to investigate. Although he and Jeff mean well, in attempting to solve this mystery, they become embroiled in the mysterious world of MI5 and the battle against organised crime. From the West Country, to London, and beyond, our reluctant heroes race across the world, to thwart a dastardly chocolate related plot. In doing so, they come face to face with the endangered tarsier, on the tropical, magical island of Bohol. With the blessing and support of the Royal Corgis (the real power behind the throne) and the leader of Britain, Larry the Downing Street cat, Ned and Jeff concoct a risky plan. Can they foil the chocolatey plot - and will their foes receive their just desserts?
Do ghosts exist? Greg Jennings doesn’t think so. He is after all a science teacher, albeit one that is currently suspended. But when he starts working as a part-time cleaner in an old house that is home to nursery, he starts to wonder if he might be wrong. Because strange things start happening. Things he can’t explain no matter how much he tries to rationalise them. Deborah Cadbury, the manager of the nursery, has noticed odd things happening too. She persuades Greg to help her investigate the history of the house, and the family who lived there, nearly 100 years before. Together they start to uncover the chilling story of the ill-fated Pritchard family, and Mary Snell, the evil, scheming governess to the Pritchard children. And as they discover more about the house, Greg and Deborah discover more about themselves, and are forced to confront the ghosts in their own lives. But will they ever find the answers they are looking for? Can they really do anything for the phantom children who seem to want their help? It doesn’t seem possible. Until the terrifying night when the past and the present finally collide.
This timely book examines recent history and ongoing controversies as it makes the case for restoring power to where it belongs - with the people's elected representatives in Parliament.
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A recognized master of Tai Chi gives step-by-step instructions on the ancient art of Chi Kung--Chinese medicine in a physical form. Readers discover how practicing Chi Kung can prevent and treat a wide range of ailments, strengthen the immune system, improve concentration and memory, regenerate the nervous system and more. 10 full-color photographs; 90 two-color illustrations.