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Intermediate and advanced players can use the full-swing serve (figure 3.6) to put the ball in play. [read more]

In football, speed is generally measured by a player’s time in running the 40-yard dash. [read more]

In the United States and Europe, between 5% and 8% of the adult population is estimated to suffer from T2D, and in genetically prone subpopulations, the prevalence may be as high as approximately 50% (Frøsig & Richter, 2009). [read more]

You know now that being active benefits the whole body and should be a part of everyone’s daily life, regardless of age or medical history. [read more]

The North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) will be hosting their annual conference May 28 – June 1, 2013 in Austin, Texas. [read more]

Visit the Human Kinetics booth #300 at the ACSM Annual Meeting May 28 - June 1, 2013, in Indianapolis. [read more]

Human Kinetics authors, Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman recently spent a week with students in their physical education class at Maple Avenue Elementary School in Goffstown, NH. [read more]

Gio Valiante, a performance consultant whose golfers have won over 50 PGA Tour events, provides proven strategies to orient the mind, harness thoughts, and enter a flow state—or optimal performance zone—in which time, control, effort, and awareness seem both suspended and intensified. [read more]

The first thing to remember as a coach is that hurdlers apply much greater stress to their legs and body than do normal sprinters; therefore, you cannot expect them to run hurdles on back-to-back days. This does not eliminate, however, the need to work on the daily flexibility that is associated with the hurdling technique. [read more]