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- Professional athletes / by Haerens, Margaret.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This title addresses various issues related to professional athletes, including their role in society; policies regarding performance-enhancing drugs; whether athletes' free expression should be limited; and other controversies surrounding athletes, such as gambling problems and high salaries. The Opposing Viewpoints series seeks to explore the varying opinions in a balanced pros/cons debate. It attempts to encourage critical thinking and issue awareness by providing opposing views on contentious issues.
- Subjects: Athletes;
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- Nutrient timing for peak performance / by Skolnik, Heidi,1961-; Chernus, Andrea,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The nutrient timing advantage -- The science made simple -- Carbohydrates as the primary fuel -- The protein profile -- Smart fat in the diet -- Essential vitamins and minerals -- The role of fluids -- The supplement factor -- Timing guidelines for athletes -- Strength and power -- Endurance -- Stop and go -- Appendix A: Calculating your caloric needs -- Appendix B: Macronutrient needs by sport -- Appendix C: Carbohydrate, protein, and fat grams of selected foods -- Appendix D: Meal and snack ideas -- Appendix E: Preexercise and recovery fuel.
- Subjects: Athletes;
- © c2010., Human Kinetics,
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- The yogafit athlete : up your game with sport-specific poses to build strength, flexibility, and balance / by Shaw, Beth,1966-;
"Bring the strength and breathing power of yoga to the sports you love--and seriously up your game! Yoga routines designed specifically for swimming, running, cycling, golf, tennis, baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, weight lifting, kickboxing, boxing, CrossFit, and more! "Your body can either help you achieve your goals or get in the way of you living your best life. By practicing yoga and meditation, you can make your body work with you, not against you."--Beth Shaw. Whether you're a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or a pick-up game enthusiast, yoga can dramatically affect your athletic performance and improve your alignment, balance, core stability, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance, lung capacity, and mobility. In this motivating and practical guide, celebrated fitness expert Beth Shaw provides short, sport-specific yoga routines designed to help counter tight muscles, overuse injuries, and musculature imbalances. By adding a quick yoga routine to any workout, you will increase your overall strength and health, and achieve your personal best. Inside you'll find fully illustrated, sport-specific yoga routines that engage the core, enhance your play, and reduce the risk of injury, essential warm-up and cool-down movements to complement any athletic endeavor, simple breathing exercises to steady your breath and calm your nerves during competition, meditation techniques to help clear your mind and bring laser focus to your goals, guided imagery and visualization exercises to improve performance, strategies for coaching yourself and others"--The fundamentals of the yogafit approach. Gaining physical and mental strength through yogafit ; Getting ready for yoga -- The poses -- Key components of sports success: Core and balance, restorative yoga, and weight training -- Breath -- Visualization, guided imagery and meditation.
- Subjects: Hatha yoga.; Physical fitness.;
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- Sports nutrition for young athletes / by Bean, Anita.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Teenage athletes; Child athletes;
- © c2012., Firefly Books,
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- Raising young athletes : parenting your children to victory in sports and life / by Taylor, Jim,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164).Introduction -- Four pillars of athletic success -- Five obstacles to athletic success -- Your role in your children's athletic lives -- Send the right messages to your young athletes -- Dos and don'ts for sports parents -- Epilogue.In this book, Dr. Jim Taylor-an internationally recognized authority on sport psychology, child development, and parenting-offers a guiding hand to help parents ensure their children's sports participation fosters nurturing experiences, encourages positive attitudes, and promotes healthy developments as they move toward adulthood.
- Subjects: Sports for children; Parent and child.; Parenting.; Coaching (Athletics);
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- The athlete's clock : how biology and time affect sport performance / by Rowland, Thomas W.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Who's in charge here? Setting the race pace -- Marching to the same drummer : cadence in endurance events -- Dragsters, tiger beetles, and Usain Bolt : time and speed -- Night and day: circadian rhythms and sport performance -- It's all in the timing : keeping your eye on the ball -- Getting better all the time: the development of athletic skill during the childhood years : a conversation with Bob Malina -- Over the hill : aging and sport performance.In this exceptionally readable exploration of athletic achievement, the author draws practical conclusions from science and experience to describe how various aspects of time affect sport performance. Readers can investigate challenging questions such as whether athletes consciously control sport performance, how young athletes can be safely nurtured to greatness, and what the optimal time of day is for training. This book takes you on a wide-ranging journey into the complexity and beauty of the human body in motion. It will forever change the way you watch and participate in sport as you come to realize it's all in the timing. -- from Back Cover
- Subjects: Sports; Chronobiology.; Athletic Performance; Chronobiology Phenomena; Sports;
- © c2011., Human Kinetics,
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- Sisterhood in sports : how female athletes collaborate and compete / by Steidinger, Joan.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Sisterhood in sports: talking, relationships, and the unique qualities of female athletes -- Best friends forever: teenage trials and building long-lasting friendships -- The family that plays together stays together -- Athletic moms' challenges -- Romantic relationships -- Body image of female athletes -- Team spirit: practicing collaboration and camaraderie -- Coaches are cornerstones -- Pioneering female athletes laid the foundation -- Female collaborative competition: girls just wanna have fun."Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls tend to have BFFs, collaborate during periods of stress, express empathy for one another, worry about themselves and others, and desire to have fun in sports, which makes their experiences of sports and competition different from those of their male counterparts. Female strengths are grounded in both mind and body, and they take these strengths onto the court, field, and track." -- Back Cover
- Subjects: Sports for women.; Women athletes.; Women athletes;
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- Mind game : an inside look at the mental health playbook of elite athletes / by Kliegman, Julie,1991-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : learning from our idols -- Part I. Eyes on the prize : how mental performance shapes athletes -- Mentally tough : the stereotypes athletes fight -- Looking back : a history of sport psychology -- Science and practice : what mental performance coaches actually do -- Part II. The megaphone : speaking out about mental illness -- The firsts : trailblazers who came forward -- Open the floodgates : more athletes join the cause -- The greats chime in : anxiety and depression amid a pandemic -- On campus : the push for better care at colleges -- Part III. The diagnosis : coping with what you've got -- Substance use : from alcohol and cannabis to psychedelics -- Body image : eating disorders in professional athletes -- Life out of the game : injury, absence, and retirement -- Conclusion : so what's next?"Mind Game takes a deep look at how the best of the best-including Simone Biles, Michael Phelps, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Terry Bradshaw, and so many more-have struggled with and persevered through mental illness, while working on their mental performance skills that make them the great athletes they are"--
- Subjects: Athletes; Athletes; Sports;
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- Endurance sports nutrition / by Eberle, Suzanne Girard,1962-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-308) and index.pt. 1. Endurance-specific nutrition strategies -- Strengthening your nutritional base -- Meeting energy needs of distance demands -- Boosting your strength-to-weight ratio -- Timing fuel and fluids for optimal results -- Using supplements effectively -- Solving peak performance challenges -- Endurance eating for vegetarians -- Planning meals for endurance athletes -- pt. 2. Condition-specific nutrition plans -- Shorter-range events -- Long-distance events -- Ultraendurance events -- Multiday and multileg endurance events -- Rowing and long-distance swimming -- Extreme heat -- Extreme cold -- High altitude.
- Subjects: Athletes; Sportifs;
- © c2007., Human Kinetics,
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