Books published by Human Kinetics Publishers

Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle is a comprehensive and practical guide for identifying and incorporating yoga movements into a new or existing routine. This detailed resource offers descriptions and images of awareness exercises and proven poses as well as providing techniques to help you create a personalized practice for better health and performance.

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to give students a compelling grasp of the evolution of American sporting practices.

The ultimate yoga resource for athletes offers instruction on improving strength, flexibility, and balance in any sport or activity. Packed with full-color photos, the book demonstrates poses, breathing, and guided visualization to elevate sport performance.

This book is primarily aimed at swim coaches at the age-group, high school, small college, and masters levels. Secondary audiences are swimmers at these levels and multisport athletes, including triathletes.

NSCA's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning is the ideal preparatory guide for those seeking TSAC-F certification. The book is also a great reference for fitness trainers who work with tactical populations such as military, law enforcement, and fire and rescue personnel.

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Second Edition, retains its scientific perspective while offering greater accessibility to a wider audience. The streamlined approach makes the content more accessible in a single undergraduate course, and the text comes with a suite of online ancillaries.

Endorsed by USA Diving, Springboard and Platform Diving breaks down the phases of each dive while providing expert instruction to improve performance. The book includes high-quality photos, mental strategies, and numerous drills, and worksheets, making it the ideal resource for divers and coaches alike.

Recreational Sport provides readers with a foundation in the concepts of recreational sport. Based on current research and offering real-world applications, it will help readers understand how to design, deliver, and manage recreational sport programs no matter what setting they find themselves in.

This highly acclaimed book now includes more than 800 full-color photos and extensive coverage of warm-up and cool-down sequences, new poses incorporated into organized workouts, a chapter on the therapeutic and restorative qualities of yoga, and an expanded discussion on integrating meditation into daily life to foster a well-rounded yoga practice.

Nick Bollettieri¿s Tennis Handbook, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive guide to learning and teaching tennis from the sport¿s most successful coach. Covering stroke techniques, strategies, skill development, conditioning, and mental training, this book allows you to train with a true master teacher and apply the system used in coaching 10 top-ranked players in the world.

Turn your dream of launching and running a sustainable tourism business into reality. This step-by-step guide will help you prepare and implement a business plan, anticipate and solve the complex sustainability challenges ahead, and stack the odds of success in your favor.

Fit for Duty, Third Edition, contains complete information on creating and implementing physical fitness and wellness programs for law enforcement officers to ensure that officers are alert, physically ready, and mentally prepared for their demanding job requirements.

Utilizing nontraditional equipment like heavy ropes, suspension devices, and sandbags, Maximum Interval Training introduces a proven plan for developing power, strength, explosiveness, quickness, and agility. It features 147 exercises and numerous programs for athletes and serious strength and conditioning enthusiasts alike.

Dean Hinitz gives serious bowlers the mental tools for performing at their best. Bowling Psychology features the latest mental training concepts including mindfulness training, sensory awareness, and mind-body connection as well as insightful interviews from top bowlers-many of whom are clients of the author.

Orthopedic Clinical Examination With Web Resource provides readers with thorough evidence-based instruction in developing proficiency at performing systematic orthopedic evaluations.

The Women's Guide to Triathlon presents female-specific training, techniques, and equipment for triathlon. Guided by the USAT Women's Committee, whose goal is to encourage women's participation in the sport, 20 of the sport's top female coaches and athletes offer their winning advice.

Strength Training Past 50 is the authoritative guide for active adults. The all-new third edition features 83 exercises for free weights, machines, kettlebells, stability balls, and elastic bands and 30 programs for endurance, speed, and strength.

Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, includes thoroughly updated nutrition and activity guidelines, multidisciplinary lessons for fourth and fifth graders, eight core Principles of Healthy Living, and a new Kid's Healthy Eating Plate to help kids make healthy food choices.

Now in its second edition, Instructing Hatha Yoga is a comprehensive guide to developing the knowledge and qualities of a confident and truly qualified yoga instructor. The updated edition includes revised poses complete with instructions, a web resource, and sample children's and prenatal classes.