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Enhanced E-books with Video Available from Human Kinetics

Whatever your sport or activity, Human Kinetics offers a wide variety of Enhanced E-books to help you achieve your goals.


These enhanced e-books allow you to access valuable information on topics ranging from strength & conditioning, health & fitness, and dance topics to sports including baseball, basketball, football, softball, swimming, tennis, and wrestling. Available for purchase through both Amazon’s Kindle store and Apple’s iBookstore, they are compatible with iOS devices—iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch—using the iBooks or Kindle app. They are also available via Barnes & Noble for use on the NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet. See listing below for more details.

 

These enhanced editions were not created or endorsed by Amazon or iTunes.

 

Abs Revealed: Enhanced Edition

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In Abs Revealed: Enhanced Edition, award-winning personal trainer Jonathan Ross provides a complete program for strengthening, sculpting, and maintaining your midsection. More than a collection of exercises, Abs Revealed: Enhanced Edition shows you how to fire your ab muscles with 60 core exercises demonstrated through 30 video clips and 62 slideshows. Regardless of your current fitness level you’ll be able to identify your goals and develop a personalized workout program to fit your schedule with progressions built in for quick and clear results.

 

Basketball Shooting: Enhanced Edition

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In Basketball Shooting: Enhanced Edition, professional shooting coach Dave Hopla presents the same skills and strategies that have helped players such as Chris Bosh, Gilbert Arenas, Ben Gordon, Brandon Jennings, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Ray Allen, and Kobe Bryant achieve great success on the basketball court. Covering long-range three pointers, midrange jumpers, bank shots, and free-throw shots, Coach Hopla pulls from his extensive coaching experience—which includes stops in the NBA and with multiple international squads—to help you master every element of a correct shot, with over 20 drills. Included are 43 video clips that demonstrate exactly how to perform various skills & drills. Some of the clips are of Hopla discussing coaching tips and strategies that have made him one of the world’s most sought-after experts.

View a YouTube video about the book. 

 

Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy: Enhanced Edition

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Increase strength, build mass, burn fat, and define your muscles. With full-color anatomical illustrations, interactive muscle identifiers, animated videos, step-by-step instructions, and training advice, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy: Enhanced Edition is the authoritative resource for sculpting your physique without free weights, machines, or expensive equipment. Compatible with your iPad, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy: Enhanced Edition features 61 interactive muscle identifiers and 5 animated videos. It targets all muscle zones and primary muscle regions—arms, chest, shoulders, back, core, thighs, glutes, and calves—presenting nearly 150 of the most effective bodyweight exercises that can be performed anytime, anywhere. With expert advice from renowned strength trainer Bret Contreras and an additional 10 exercises that work the entire body, you’ll learn how to modify, combine, and sequence exercises to ramp up your routine and avoid plateaus.

 

“Bret Contreras is hands down one of the top fitness professionals. If you want to learn the science and art of bodyweight training, there is no better resource than Bret’s book, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy.

Brad Schoenfeld, MSc, CSCS, CSPS

Author of The M.A.X. Muscle Plan

 

View a YouTube video about the book.

 

Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual: A Health-Related Assessment for Youngsters with Disabilities, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition

Compatible with your iPad, Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition includes a pass code to the accompanying web resource that includes reproducible forms and tables that help teachers administer the tests. Included within the enhanced edition are video clips that demonstrate assessment protocol for 26 of the 27 tests.

Championship Tennis: Enhanced Edition

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In Championship Tennis: Enhanced Edition, world-class coach and regular Grand Slam clinician Frank Giampaolo and long-time Tennis magazine editor Jon Levey bring you expert instruction and professional insights to eliminate unforced errors, increase winning percentage, and improve your overall game. This enhanced e-book with audio/video and full-color images will help you learn how to: assess individual skills, evaluate practice sessions, and analyze performance; identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement; customize your training and conditioning to your skill set, experience, and style of play; increase the consistency and accuracy of your shots; and control your emotions and mentally prepare for every match. You’ll find the most effective, unparalleled drills for mastering groundstrokes, serves, volleys, and specialty shots as well 24 technique video clips that will show you how to master those drills. You’ll also get invaluable advice for improving anticipatory skills and recognizing, neutralizing, and countering your competition’s strengths and playing styles.

 

Coaching Basketball Successfully 3rd Edition: Enhanced Edition

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Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden once said, “People say Morgan Wootten is the best high school basketball coach in the country. I disagree. I know of no finer coach at any level—high school, college, or pro.” Morgan Wootten has retired from coaching, but his knowledge of the game remains unsurpassed and keen as ever. Coaching Basketball Successfully, Third Edition: Enhanced Edition contains a wealth of Wootten’s timeless wisdom. And, in this third edition, Wootten adds even more value—the coaching experiences, methods, and tactics of his son Joe Wootten, a successful high school coach himself. Loaded with insights, instruction, drills, and Xs and Os, this is the best single resource on making the most of your program, team, and players each season. This special enhanced edition of the book adds several video clips of Morgan talking about his personal insights of the game and his experiences as one of the winningest high school coaches of all time as well as video clips of how to set up several offensive & defensive tactics and specific plays.

 

Complete Conditioning for Football: Enhanced Edition 

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Today’s players are bigger, stronger, and faster than ever before. A focused conditioning program has become essential to on-field success. Complete Conditioning for Football: Enhanced Edition features a comprehensive training approach that builds players’ abilities as well as the football-specific skills their positions require. In this special enhanced e-book, authors Pat Ivey and Josh Stoner explain and demonstrate the same exercises and drills they use to develop speed, power, strength, and agility with the game’s premier collegiate and professional players. Their programs will help you generate explosive power to move your opponent off the line of scrimmage; increase first-step, reactionary, and closing speed; improve arm and shoulder strength for longer, more accurate passes; and maximize agility and leg strength to hold blocks and break or avoid tackles. In addition, 40 video clips take you onto the gridiron and into the gym to demonstrate the most effective exercises and drills for your position, skill set, and goals.

 

Complete Conditioning for Soccer: Enhanced Edition

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In Complete Conditioning for Soccer: Enhanced Edition, renowned soccer strength and conditioning coach Greg Gatz provides a comprehensive training approach that builds players’ physical abilities as well as the soccer-specific skills required for dribbling, tackling, passing, heading, shooting, and goalkeeping. Complete with assessments for determining a player’s fitness status and specific programs that improve balance, quickness, agility, speed, and strength, this enhanced e-book will help you dominate your position. The video clips put the training into action by demonstrating the key tests, exercises, and drills.

 

Complete Conditioning for Tennis, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition

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Thanks to its 56 videos, you can improve shot power, increase on-court speed and agility, and outlast the opposition with the enhanced edition of Complete Conditioning for Tennis, Second Edition. It’s the most comprehensive tennis conditioning resource available. The only strength and conditioning resource endorsed by the United States Tennis Association, Complete Conditioning for Tennis details how to maximize your training with exercises, drills, and programs that assess physical strengths and deficiencies, improve footwork and agility, increase speed and quickness, enhance stamina, increase flexibility, reduce recovery time, and prevent common injuries.

 

Complete Conditioning for Swimming: Enhanced Edition 

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From more powerful strokes to quicker turns, propel yourself to improved times with Complete Conditioning for Swimming: Enhanced Edition. This multidimensional training program uses fitness assessments to tailor strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to each swimmer’s individual needs. Dave Salo, coach of Olympic medalists Lenny Krayzelburg, Aaron Peirsol, Amanda Beard, Jason Lezak, Rebecca Soni, Jessica Hardy, Ous Mellouli, Vladimir Morozov, Larsen Jensen, Gabe Woodward, Staciana Stitts, Colleen Lanne, Ricky Berens, Eric Shanteau, and Haley Anderson, and Scott Riewald, performance specialist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, have created a comprehensive program that incorporates exercises and drills for each stroke; event-based workouts and programs; dryland training; tapering for peak performance; year-round conditioning plans; and nutrition before, during, and after swim meets. Included are 72 video clips that take you to the pool and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the sport’s elite.

 

Complete Guide to Pitching: Enhanced Edition

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Derek Johnson, named college baseball’s National Pitching Coach of the Year in 2004 and National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010, led Vanderbilt University to the College World Series in 2011, led by eight players who would later be selected in the Major League Baseball draft. In The Complete Guide to Pitching: Enhanced Edition, Johnson offers the expertise that has helped him put together several other tremendous pitching staffs in a special book perfect for pitching coaches and dedicated pitchers from the club level to the minor leagues.  Featuring 60 drills complemented by 226 full-color photos and 50 video clips, exercises, and Johnson’s personal insights as part of his overall plan for pitching, this book shows how to refine mechanics, develop new pitches, improve physical conditioning, recognize a hitter’s weaknesses, and shut down a running game.

 

“Without question one of the best resources ever on pitching… Every pitching coach and pitcher in the nation should get a copy...” – Collegiate Baseball

 

View a YouTube video about the book.

 

Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball: Enhanced Edition 

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Here’s the missing guide for slowpitch softball. It’s not a fastpitch softball book adapted to slowpitch softball. It’s a comprehensive and unique instructional guide to the unique sport of slowpitch. With Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball: Enhanced Edition, you will learn basic to advanced offensive and defensive techniques. And the comprehensive coverage of slowpitch strategies and tactics, as well as expert advice on physical and psychological conditioning, will ensure you step out of the dugout confident and prepared.  Senior softball Hall of Famer Rainer Martens and his wife, Julie Martens, put their wealth of expertise together in this special edition containing 62 video clips and 105 full-color photos. With over 45 years of softball experience and PhDs in the sport sciences, Rainer and Julie bring unique insight into all aspects of the game.  

View a YouTube video about the Slowpitch Softball Suite.

 

Complete Offensive Line: Enhanced Edition 

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Rick Trickett is considered by many football coaches to be the greatest collegiate offensive line coach in the history of the game. In Complete Offensive Line: Enhanced Edition, he passes down his 35-plus years of coaching experience to players and coaches of all offensive line positions, with in-depth instruction for mastering positional play as well as individual and team execution in the most popular systems of play. Beginning with a chapter covering the most important characteristics of offensive linemen, this book moves on to cover pass- and run-game fundamentals, including stances, footwork, hand positioning, pulling, and cutbacks. It then builds toward more advanced techniques and schemes, making it appropriate for the wide range of skills and experience seen at all levels of the game. 61 drills are complemented by 109 full-color photos and 21 video clips.

 

Complete Wide Receiver: Enhanced Edition 

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For the past 25 years, Jay Norvell has helped lead countless college and pro teams to victory and has coached many elite athletes, including Reggie Wayne, Sage Rosenfels, Doug Jolley, Juaquin Iglesias, and Manuel Johnson. Now he presents advice for wide receivers and their coaches in Complete Wide Receiver: Enhanced Edition. Designed for skill development and refinement, the 48 drills featured in this book, complemented by 12 video clips, cover the techniques of catching, blocking, route running, ball security, and game preparation. The content extends far beyond the basics by detailing how skills are used in game situations and by explaining the techniques and responsibilities of wide receivers based on various schemes of the passing game. In addition to the in-season instruction, off-season training, physical conditioning and mental training are covered.

 

Conditioning to the Core: Enhanced Edition

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Serious athletes train for results—results that make them winners on the field, pitch, course, or court. And the key to getting those results, to improving performance in any sport and at any level, is no secret. A strong, well-conditioned core is the lynchpin to athletic success. Highlighted by 44 video clips, Conditioning to the Core: Enhanced Edition is the definitive guide to training the torso. There are 39 clips that demonstrate exercises, while five feature author and strength and conditioning coach Greg Brittenham discussing the importance of and proper methods for training the core. Co-written with Daniel Taylor, the book’s detailed photo sequences and expert instruction ensure you’re performing each exercise safely and efficiently. Color-coded stability, strength, and power training exercises, programs, and assessments provide all the tools for achieving high-performance goals.

 

Fitness Weight Training: Enhanced Edition

Whether you’ve been a regular at the gym for years or are just getting started, Fitness Weight Training: Enhanced Edition contains proven programs for attaining the body you want. Expanded, enhanced, and improved, this new edition of the perennial best-selling guide provides an overview of weight training. From equipment selection to exercise technique, Fitness Weight Training: Enhanced Edition has the information you need to get to work quickly, safely, and correctly, along with 40 videos illustrating many  exercises found in the book.

 

 

High-Intensity 300: Enhanced Edition

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If you’re tired of the same old workouts and less-than-spectacular results, you’ll be excited to know you’ve found the remedy to your situation. In fact, you’ve found 300 of them! Highlighted by 38 video clips, High-Intensity 300: Enhanced Edition is the ultimate workout guide. Featuring 300 of the most effective and challenging workouts, it’s packed with programs that push you to your limit and maximize results. Each workout includes detailed instruction from author Dan Trink, full-color photos, and training tips as well as variations for types of equipment and difficulty level. Best of all, each workout is designed to be completed in 30 minutes. Challenge yourself with a different workout each day, or take a more focused approach and target goals, such as increasing muscle mass, shedding fat, or maximizing performance. The choice is yours. And just when you think you’ve done it all, High-Intensity 300: Enhanced Edition finishes with 40 of the toughest workouts.

 

View a YouTube video about the book.

 

High-Powered Plyometrics: Enhanced Edition

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Improve strength, power, speed, and more! No matter what sport you play or level you compete, High-Powered Plyometrics Enhanced Edition will take your performance to the next level. This systematic, hands-on guide to explosive power training for athletes, coaches, and strength and conditioning experts, explores the principles of high-intensity plyometric training, power assessments, and development of long- and short-term conditioning programs. You’ll find detailed photo sequences, video clips, step-by-step instruction, and intensity guidelines to ensure correct technique for 81 exercises that increase power in the core and upper and lower body. Incorporate exercises into an existing program, or personalize one of the ready-to-use programs for 23 sports, including football, basketball, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. You’ll also learn to track progress and adjust your programming to maintain your results. The most dynamic and complex exercises found in the book come to life in the 39 video clips to ensure you perform them with proper technique. With High-Powered Plyometrics Enhanced Edition you’ll go beyond basic conditioning and develop the explosive power that will give you an edge on the competition.

 

 

High Scoring Baseball: Enhanced Edition 

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Valdosta State University hitting coach Todd Guilliams is no stranger to offensive success on the field. His squad has ranked as high as fourth in NCAA Division II history and finished eighth nationally. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he and his brother Greg built a dynasty at Embry-Riddle, where he served as the hitting coach for 44 NAIA All-America selections.  Now Guilliams brings his hitting expertise to High-Scoring Baseball: Enhanced Edition, with expert advice on the four offensive team goals and the six ways to create offensive pressure that gives every team a chance to be high scorers. Geared toward generating higher run production, this book includes 18 drills to improve hitting, bunting, bat control, strike zone awareness, base stealing, and baserunning, complemented by 148 full-color photos and 26 video clips.

 

Kettlebell Training: Enhanced Edition

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Kettlebell Training: Enhanced Edition is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense guide that will get you started setting goals, assessing fitness, and selecting exercises. It’s highlighted by 53 video clips showing kettlebell experts demonstrating various exercises, helping you learn how to exercise safely and efficiently to maximize results. All of the clips can be viewed at normal speed and in slow motion. Meanwhile, each of the 95 total exercises is accompanied by detailed full-color photo sequences, step-by-step instruction, and training tips—instantly accessible and perfect for at home or in the gym.

 

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Nick Bollettieri’s Tennis Handbook, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition

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Featuring 55 drills for singles and doubles play, the most effective conditioning exercises and programs for all styles of play, and the latest on equipment, technology, and mental training, Nick Bollettieri’s Tennis Handbook offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity to train with a true master teacher and apply to your game the system that has helped produce some of the sport’s greatest players. The enhanced edition’s 30 instructional videos give you demonstrations of the most critical individual techniques such as forehand, backhand, volley, serve, and return. It also includes 13 videos of Bollettieri’s insights about some of the tennis world’s biggest stars, making the book a must-have for dedicated players and coaches alike.

 

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The HIIT Advantage: High-Intensity Workouts for Women: Enhanced Edition

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The HIIT Advantage: High-Intensity Workouts for Women is the resource for the most research-based, organized, and systematic information available on high-intensity interval training. The HIIT Advantage keys in on specific exercises, combinations, and progressions that will incinerate fat, shape and strengthen the upper and lower body, and assist with core strength for excellent posture and enhanced exercises performance—all written with a woman’s ultimate physique in mind.

HIIT protocols pair quick bouts of super-high-intensity anaerobic intervals with shorter, low-effort rest intervals.

 

The HIIT Advantage is the authoritative guide on high-intensity training. Comprehensive yet accessible, it describes how and why HIIT is one of the most effective ways to burn fat and improve performance. You’ll find step-by-step instructions, photo sequences, variations, and recommendations for 74 exercises to define muscles, reduce injury, and increase weight loss. You will learn the proper setup of a HIIT workout, the rationale, and the ratios for rest and recovery. Best of all, you’ll choose from 19 complete workouts consisting of a combination of 20-, 30-, and 45-minute sessions. Finally, you’ll receive exclusive access to the HIIT Advantage video library, including demonstrations of 24 key exercises, as well as an original 30-minute workout.

 

“Irene offers science applied simply and powerfully to bring HIIT to your workouts the right way, for your starting point, for your results.”

Jonathan Ross-- Award-Winning Fitness Professional and author of Abs Revealed

 

View a YouTube video about the book.

 

The M.A.X. Muscle Plan: Enhanced Edition 

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Brad Schoenfeld, one of America’s leading strength and fitness professionals, 2011 NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year, and best-selling author brings his expertise to The M.A.X. Muscle Plan: Enhanced Edition,with everything needed for completing a total-body transformation in just six months. Packed with 109 exercises, each complemented by a video clip that demonstrates proper form, and over 200 photos that reveal Schoenfeld’s revolutionary muscle-building program, the book revolves around MAX—short for mitogen-activated xtreme training. Mitogens are the chemical substances that encourage cells to remodel, a process essential for muscle growth. The scientifically proven program enhances mitogenic and other growth-oriented training responses to promote optimal muscle development and eliminate training plateaus. It features a three-phase, six-month program for increasing lean body mass, building muscle and dramatically transforming the entire body.

The Publishing Innovation Awards have awarded the QED Seal to the enhanced edition of The M.A.X. Muscle Plan based on its quality, excellence, and design. This distinction is earned by e-books offering a high quality user experience which readers can buy with confidence.

 

"The M.A.X. Muscle Plan is a rare combination of rigorous science and practical experience, without the hype or wishful thinking." – Lou Schuler, author The New Rules of Lifting

 

"Brad Schoenfeld knows muscle ’n’ might, where it comes from, and how it gets here because he’s studied it, practiced it, and insisted on it. Read his words and ideas in The M.A.X. Muscle Plan, put them into action, and grow." – Dave Draper, Mr. America and Mr. Universe

View a YouTube video about the book. 

 

New Functional Training for Sports: Enhanced Edition

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Michael Boyle, one of the world’s leading sport performance coaches, presents the concepts, methods, exercises, and programs that maximize athletes’ movements in competition in New Functional Training for Sports: Enhanced Edition. A series of functional assessments help in determining the design of a specific plan for each athlete. Self-reinforcing progressions in exercises for the lower body, core, upper body, and ultimately total body give athletes the balance, proprioception, stability, strength, and power they require for excelling in their sports. Sample programs assist in the customization process and ensure each aspect of preparation for physical performance.  Boyle also draws on the latest research and his wealth of experience to offer programming advice and recommendations on foam rolling, stretching, and dynamic warm-ups. New Functional Training for Sports goes beyond traditional exercise descriptions and explanations, incorporating full-color, high-definition composites of foundational movements as well as online access to video demonstrations, commentary, and analysis of key exercises.  

 

 

Plyometrics: Enhanced Edition 

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Strength and power—which provide the ability to move quickly with great force—are absolute necessities for today’s athletes. Elite players, coaches, and trainers rely on plyometrics to improve quickness, speed, jumping ability, footwork, body control, balance, and overall performance. With this authoritative guide on plyometrics, you can, too. In Plyometrics: Enhanced Edition, Drs. Donald Chu and Gregory Myer present only the best science-based and tested exercises and programs to ensure optimal power with minimal risk of injury. Together, they provide the surest and safest strength and power exercises and programs ever presented in one resource. Featuring 30 video clips — 28 demonstrating exercises and two with Dr. Chu discussing plyometrics — this comprehensive guide includes sport-specific power training regimens for baseball, basketball, football, mixed martial arts, rugby, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball, while showing how to integrate those plans into a total athlete development program.

 

The Softball Pitching Edge: Enhanced Edition

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Heralded as “a must-have” and “the best guide on the subject,” The Softball Pitching Edge has long established itself as the go-to resource for pitchers and coaches alike. Now updated and enhanced, this e-book raises the bar for pitching instruction.

 

This enhanced e-book with video offers an in-depth look into the art and science of softball pitching. Cheri Kempf, widely recognized as one of the best softball pitching coaches in the United States, helps you develop elite-level fastpitch skills through drills and expert technical advice. The 77 video clips throughout this enhanced e-book will help you develop the skills to become a dominant pitcher. Kempf breaks down the fundamental mechanics and details common mistakes to help you develop proper pitching mechanics. She offers specific instructions for developing the drop, change-up, rise, curve, and screwball.

 

Strength Ball Training 3rd Edition: Enhanced Edition

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The enhanced edition of Strength Ball Training, Third Edition, delivers plenty of exercises, programs, assessments, and 51 video clips and 2 full-length programs for achieving the best results. Preferred by elite athletes, fitness experts, and strength and conditioning specialists, stability and medicine ball exercises are essential to developing core power, strength, balance, coordination, and stability. Strength Ball Training presents those exercises along with instruction and advice on achieving results. Inside you will find assessments to help you determine your current ability and suggested exercises to address deficiencies. The exercises can be sequenced to create individual programs that target specific regions or enhance total-body performance. You’ll learn to incorporate equipment such as cables, bands, and dumbbells for added versatility and increased resistance. The enhanced edition’s 51 video clips show exercises for core stabilization; core rotation; legs and hips; chest, shoulders, and upper back; abs, lower back, and glutes; biceps, triceps, and forearms, and whole body. Also included are two full-length 30-minute programs, Muscle Up and Power Conditioning, making this the one resource full of strength, flexibility, and balance challenges that will test you to your very core.

 

Stretching Anatomy: Enhanced Edition

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Compatible with your iPad, Stretching Anatomy, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition combines step-by-step instructions, visually stunning illustrations, interactive muscle identifiers, and several videos to feature the top stretches for the neck; shoulders, back, and chest; arms, wrists, and hands; lower trunk; hips, knees and thighs; and feet and calves. It also showcases nine dynamic stretches to use as part of a sport warm-up. In addition to clear instructions and illustrations, Stretching Anatomy, Second Edition: Enhanced Edition has 59 interactive muscle identifiers with which the user can expand the illustration and highlight key muscles individually or collectively according to most-stretched or less-stretched.

 

Social Dance: Steps to Success 3rd Edition: Enhanced Edition 

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Social Dance: Steps to Success-Enhanced Edition is written by master teacher and dancer Judy Wright and includes 174 video clips for practice and demonstrations of key movements, footwork, and the dances themselves. This enhanced e-book with video teaches all the moves for 10 of today’s most popular dance styles: Merengue, Four-count swing and hustle, Waltz, Six-count swing, Foxtrot, Polka, Cha-cha, Rumba, Tango, Salsa and mambo. The first learning steps introduce you to the foundational skills and concepts needed for success on the dance floor, each being a smooth transition from the previous one. As you progress, learn not only how your posture and footwork affect your balance but also how to connect your footwork with the music, adjust to a partner, make the transition between partner positions, and create sequences from variations of each dance’s specific rhythmic step pattern.

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Soccer: Steps to Success: Enhanced Edition

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Master key techniques on the soccer field with the 4th edition of Soccer:Steps to Success-Enhanced Edition. This comprehensive guide features step-by-step instruction, 32 video clips, and 11 animated illustrations, on becoming skilled in individual techniques and team tactics. Improve your abilities in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading, and goalkeeping with the help of detailed descriptions, full-color photos and illustrations of all fundamental techniques, and twenty video clips. Then learn how and when to apply those skills in game situations, such as winning one-on-one matchups, attacking, and defending. More than 170 exercises and small-sided games, along with 12 different games and drills video clips, test your readiness to progress to the next step through the use of an easy-to-follow scoring system.

 

Tai Chi Illustrated: Enhanced Edition 

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Whether you are completely new to tai chi or have practiced for years, Tai Chi Illustrated: Enhanced Edition will be your guide to the path of better health and self-awareness. Internationally renowned instructor Master Pixiang Qiu and mind–body exercise expert Weimo Zhu demonstrate the most effective forms for harnessing the healing power of chi, or energy. Follow their lead and improve balance and coordination, relieve stress, and reduce pain and muscle stiffness. Tai Chi Illustrated-Enhanced Edition offers a comprehensive look at the mind-body exercise with full-color photo sequences and 13 video clips demonstrating the most popular tai chi routines. Photos are accompanied by numbered steps that explain how to execute each move, making the exercises accessible for beginning and intermediate audiences alike. The book and video clips focus on the most popular yang-style routines, including Grasp Sparrow’s Tail and Part the Wild Horse’s Mane, all of which can be performed in limited space with minimal training.

 

Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills, Third Edition: Enhanced Edition 

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Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach for Ages 7 to 18, Third Edition: Enhanced Edition includes 14 video clips that demonstrate sample lessons in action at both the elementary and secondary levels. With the enhanced edition of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills, Third Edition, you’ll have everything right at your fingertips! Everything from the book and e-book is included in the enhanced version along with the video from the DVD-ROM. Each video accompanies the text for easy navigation.

 

The Wrestling Drill Book, 2E: Enhanced Edition

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With new chapters, drills, coaching advice, practice planning, and video clips, The Wrestling Drill Book, 2E: Enhanced Edition, is bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever. It features more than 150 match-tested drills from the top high school and college wrestling coaches in the sport. Fifty of those drills are accompanied by video clips, some in slow motion, to provide greater understanding of technique and form. From takedowns, escapes, and reversals to riding and pinning combinations, each contributor breaks down a technique, tactic, or facet of wrestling for which he is renowned. From wrestling to mixed martial arts, The Wrestling Drill Book, 2E: Enhanced Edition is the one resource that athletes need in order to learn how to grapple like a champion.

 

"To reach your potential as a wrestler, you must be willing to work hard in the off-season. The Wrestling Drill Book offers some great training activities to help you do this."

Cael Sanderson

2004 Olympic Champion

Head Wrestling Coach, Penn State University

 

Total Knockout Fitness: Enhanced Edition

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Total Knockout Fitness: Enhanced Edition contains everything you need in order to burn calories and fat, increase power and strength, build cardiorespiratory endurance, sculpt muscles, and transform your body.

Martin McKenzie, one of the UK’s premier personal trainers, and Stefanie Kirchner, nutrition and holistic health therapist, team up to share their highly touted program that has produced amazing results for some of today’s highest-profile athletes and stars. Ideal for home or gym, with routines that can be performed solo or with a partner, McKenzie’s blend of boxing, cardio and cross-training is a fun and challenging yet unconventional program that works.

 

Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness, 3E: Enhanced Edition

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Today’s athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, and more agile than ever before. Exhibiting a combination of power, speed, and quickness, they’ve raised the bar on performance, competition, and training. Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness, 3E: Enhanced Edition is the complete workout guide you need in order to perform a step ahead of the competition. Edited by Lee Brown and Vance Ferrigno, this total training package offers 49 video clips of the most effective drills and exercises for developing movement skills, letting you see how to perform key tests and execute the best and most complex drills in the book. Sample training programs are included for baseball and softball, football and rugby, basketball and netball, combat sports, track and field, soccer, lacrosse, tennis and badminton, and racquetball and squash.

 

“Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness is a comprehensive resource that will benefit all readers. The recommendations are backed by research and are easily adjusted to the needs of each athlete.”

Boyd Epley

Founder of National Strength and Conditioning Association

U.S. Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame

Nebraska Football Hall of Fame

Lindy’s Sports Top 100 Most Important College Football Sports Figures of the Century

 

Winning Basketball Fundamentals: Enhanced Edition 

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Lee Rose has been one of basketball’s most knowledgeable and respected coaches over the past 50 years at the high school, college, and professional levels. Winning Basketball Fundamentals: Enhanced Edition presents his proven program for success, the same one he used in taking teams from two different colleges to the Final Four. From offense to defense to transition play and special situations, Coach Rose covers every tactical facet of the game and adds his insights for improving execution in each.


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