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Practical Sports Nutrition

The benefits of a sound diet are most obvious in the area of competition performance

Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength

The number of sets performed in a workout is one of the factors affecting the total volume (sets X repetitions X resistance) of exercise.

Nordic Walking for Total Fitness

Increase endurance, strength, flexibility, and agility

Jump Rope Training-2nd Edition

Rope jumping involves three phases in each jump�load phase, flight phase, and landing phase.

Abs Revealed

In order to train more effectively, you need to make the distinction between the inner and outer abdominal muscles.

Worksite Health Promotion-3rd Edition

Consider some major trends in demographics, technology, and economy over the past 50 years.

Weight Training 4th Edition eBook

The exercises you select will determine which muscles become stronger, more enduring, and thicker. In addition, how you arrange, or order, the exercises in your program will affect the intensity of your workouts.

Hatha Yoga Asanas

Child�s (Balasana) and Child�s, Extended (Utthita Balasana) asanas.

Senior Fitness Test Manual-2nd Edition

Briefly, strength is increased by gradually increasing the resistance placed on a muscle (i.e., by applying what is called the overload principle). Overloading a muscle means making it do more than it is accustomed to doing. This can be accomplished using free weights (similar to the dumbbells used to test arm strength in the SFT), elastic exercise bands, Velcro strap-on weights, exercise machines that are designed for specific muscle groups, or a person�s own body weight and gravity. A

Senior Fitness Test Software 2.0 Subscription

It has been our experience that both practitioners and researchers generally find it preferable to administer the SFT to several people at a time. In fact, group testing is preferred when the goal is to compare performance to the normative data, because all normative scores were collected in a group setting where there tends to be more social interaction and encouragement than when tests are given in an isolated environment.

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	Bending the Aging Curve: A Periodized Prescription for Improved Aging Dr. Signorile provides a unique look at how to address the multi-faceted needs of each individual using functional diagnoses to design targeted exercise programs.
	Everything Athletes Need to Know About Protein Dr. Bill Campbell discusses an evidence-based approach to examine common issues in relation to protein intake for athletes.
	Is the environment causing obesity? Taking action to reverse an epidemic Dr. Rebecca Lee looks at the obesogenic environment -- an environment that leads people to become obese -- and shares practical ideas to help you start making important changes in your own community.
	Use It or Lose It--The Importance of Strength Training for Seniors Fitness expert, Wayne Westcott shares his knowledge about why strength training is important, especially for the aging population.