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.

With over 100 exercises partnered with photo demonstrations, Fundamental Weight Training gives you the basic knowledge and programs to start your weight training routine. Whether you're working out at the gym or at home, this guide will help you develop a sound strength training program.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cutting-edge info on how exercise modulates cellular physiology, which can be used to develop better training regimens and injury- prevention & rehabilitation programs, and to improve performance. Recent advances in molecular techniques have enabled researchers to address the mechanisms involved on a subcellular & molecular level.

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