Books published by Human Kinetics Publishers

As obesity continues to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world, this reference provides practitioners with insight into integrating physical activity, nutrition, psychology, and medicine to help obese patients manage their weight.

This is a treatment of how individual and team emotions affect athletic performance. It provides students with an understanding of emotional patterns such as anxiety, anger and joy, as well as their impact on individual and team performance.

Features insight, advice, and strategies of some of the successful coaches that they've used to field championship-winning teams season after season. This book covers various aspects of the game - coaching principles, program building, player motivation, practice sessions, individual skills, team tactics, and offensive and defensive play-calling.

Conditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program.

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education offers 64 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable, and it addresses all the skills in the National Health Education Standards.

Offers an introduction to the field that focuses on motor behaviour that can be observed directly as well as the many factors that affect the quality of these performances and the ease with which they can be learned. It frames the important issues, theories, people and research from the field in a reader-friendly way.

Pregnancy Fitness covers all physical and physiological aspects of pregnancy, birth, and recovery. Practical and accessible, it delivers stretching, strengthening, and functional exercises as well as sample workout programs to take you safely and confidently through each phase of pregnancy and postpartum fitness.

From marketing and sales to budgets, staffing, and clientele issues, The Business of Personal Training walks you through the business-based side of personal training while teaching you the valuable skills you'll need to start, build, and grow your business.

Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools helps teachers promote healthy and active lifestyles, not just in Physical Education (PE) classes but throughout the day.

Your Workout PERFECTED separates fact from fiction to improve fitness, function and performance, fat loss, and physique. Comprehensive and practical, all exercises and workout programs are accompanied by step-by-step instructions, training advice, safety considerations, and variations.

The fourth edition of Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides advanced psychology students with a thorough examination and critical analysis of the current research in sport and exercise psychology.

Pilates for Rehabilitation explains how to incorporate Pilates exercises into rehabilitation programs to heal injuries, improve core strength, promote efficient movement, and help manage pain.

Dynamic Human Anatomy, Second Edition, connects biomechanical movement with specific sports movements to provide an understanding of the body's anatomical structure and function.

Orthopedic Joint Mobilization and Manipulation is a guide to clinical applications that will help eliminate pain and re-establish normal joint motion for patients experiencing various musculoskeletal ailments. Sixty techniques are demonstrated in video within the companion web study guide.

Beginning Hip-Hop Dance provides dance students and general education students a strong foundation in the fundamentals of hip-hop--its techniques, styles, aesthetics, history, significant works, and artists. The text comes with a web resource of 56 video clips to aid in practicing techniques.

Sociology of Sport and Social Theory presents current research perspectives from major sport scholars and leading sociologists regarding issues germane to the sociology of sport while addressing traditional and contemporary sociological theories.

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction offers evidence-based, teacher-tested methods for teaching physical education. A companion web resource houses printable content maps and other supplemental materials to enhance your teaching.

With the fifth edition of FitnessGram Administration Manual: The Journey to MyHealthyZone, K-12 teachers can conduct, record, interpret, and share results for numerous health-related fitness assessments. They can create personalized reports for students and document outcomes in the five components of health-related fitness.

Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education offers more than 240 lesson plans that are standards-based and ready-to-use. These innovative plans are great for fostering physical literacy in your students. The book also provides guidance on how to plan effective lessons that align with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcom

Complete Guide to Foam Rolling combines the latest scientific research with step-by-step instructions for the most effective foam rolling techniques for muscle preparation and recovery.

Leading authorities on goaltending bring you the definitive guide to stopping more pucks, winning more games, and lowering your goals against average.