Books published by Human Kinetics Publishers

ABCA Coach of the Year Tom O'Connell presents over 100 of the best practice games ever created. The skill-building competitions cover fielding, pitching, catching, and hitting; they also prepare players for every situation from bunt defense to rundowns. With full practice plans based on the games included, it's an ideal resource for coaches.

In Water Skiing and Wakeboarding, water skiing champion Ben Favret provides instruction for everything from the essential skills of each event to the pros' training secrets. This full-color book is jam-packed with action photos showing techniques and learning progressions for mastering each maneuver on the water.

Sport Club Management provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary for running a sport club like a business.

Presents readers with the essential survival information to help overcome the most frequently encountered outdoor hazards. This guide offers practical, step-by-step instruction so the readers can implement the skills and techniques under the most stressful circumstances.

Add more fun, excitement, and variety to your physical education class or youth program with big activity balls. This book is ideal for anyone who works with kids and provides them with a variety of cooperative games, water games, and modified classic games.

A guide for multi-sport success. It helps readers learn how to: choose the best equipment for their goals and budget; create triathlon programmes for various distances and events; plan what, how, and when, to eat and drink when training or competing; prevent overtraining and recover from common injuries; and, swim and navigate in open water.

Cultural Sport Psychology is the first full text to focus entirely on cultural awareness, and its timeliness will undeniably spark increased discussion, reflection, and research of cultural considerations in sport psychology practice.

Introduces group dynamics theory and research as it applies to recreation and leisure settings. This book explains the concept of the conscious group, its nature and components and applies experiential learning theory to working with these groups.

A guide to safety and lawsuit prevention. It offers CD-ROM that contains tips and strategies for lawsuit prevention, environment and safety checklists, documentation strategies and sample forms.

Offers professors teaching general education health courses the option to customise their student textbooks to match their syllabi. This title covers the essential personal health topics for the general student population.

Offering aspiring kickers and punters expert instruction, this title includes field goals, extra points and special plays; and 46 drills to maximise practice time and ensure improvement in distance, hang time, consistency and accuracy.

The text is a series of independent but related chapters authored by the foremost researchers of insulin resistance, and it presents a wealth of information to assist the biomedical and research community.

Drawing on the contributions of a diverse group of international experts and a multidisciplinary approach, this reference challenges professionals, researchers, and students to implement new solutions and further their research in youth inactivity.

Offers readers with the same conditioning concepts and programming used by elite triathletes. This book helps readers to learn techniques such as using weight training, plyometrics and core development to accelerate skill development in various phases of swimming, running and cycling.

Chicken and Noodle Games will help you offer a variety of games that will keep everyone participating. Provide inclusive and nontraditional games in which no player starts with an advantage, adapt games to various settings and occasions, and increase players' physical activity.

Aimed at coaches, PE teachers and professionals working with athletes, this work is designed to introduce sport science topics to coaches, as well as how these concepts can be applied to enhance sports performance. It is divided into three sections: Foundations of Skill Instruction, Skills Your Athletes Need and Designing Practice Sessions.

Aimed at strength training enthusiasts and fitness professionals, this illustrated book has 65 exercises, and provides the proper alignment, positioning and lifting techniques. The combination of anatomical illustration and technical guidance allows readers to focus on specific muscles using correct technique.

A reference book for researchers in human movement sciences and related fields; textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate level courses