Author: Cole, BrianPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 145049644X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Basketball Anatomy
Basketball Anatomy
Author: Brian ColePublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492584975
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
See what it takes to maximize on-court power, strength, agility, and quickness. Basketball Anatomy will show you how to improve performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement. Basketball Anatomy features 88 of the most effective basketball exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations to show the muscles in action. Basketball Anatomy goes beyond the exercises by placing you on the court and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the muscles involved in pivoting, rebounding, and shooting show you the exercises are fundamentally linked to basketball performance. You’ll also step off the court and into the athletic training room to explore the anatomy of the most common injuries to the ankle, knee, and shoulder as well as exercises for minimizing and recovering from such setbacks. Basketball Anatomy is a must-have for all who appreciate the artistry and athleticism of the game—whether player, coach, trainer, or spectator.
Complete Conditioning for Basketball
Author: National Basketball Conditioning Coaches AssociationPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736057844
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Complete Conditioning for Basketball presents the ultimate in training for the sport from the National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association, the experts who work daily to maximize the performance potential of the game's top stars. Build your strength and power to be a beast on the boards. Improve your quickness and agility to be a defensive stopper. Increase your vertical jump to rise over defenders for uncontested shots. With over 200 exercises, drills, performance tests, and workouts, plus a 60-minute instructional DVD, Complete Conditioning for Basketball is the most comprehensive training resource for men and women at all levels of competition. Get the most out of your workouts and add new dimensions to your game. Complete Conditioning for Basketball will help you to fulfill your potential and make the most of every opportunity on the court.
Strength Training for Basketball
Author: Javair GillettPublisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 1492571490
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Strength Training for Basketball will help you create a basketball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position--guard, forward, or center--develop strength and successfully transfer that strength to the basketball court.
Swimming Anatomy
Author: Ian A. McLeodPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492583219
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscle strength and optimizing the efficiency of every stroke. Swimming Anatomy includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. Swimming Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the starting block, in the water, and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the active muscles for starts, turns, and the four competitive strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke) show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance. You’ll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your form in the water, and minimize common swimming injuries. Best of all, you’ll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you are training for a 50-meter freestyle race or the open-water stage of a triathlon, Swimming Anatomy will ensure you enter the water prepared to achieve every performance goal.
The Book of Basketball
Author: Bill SimmonsPublisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345520106
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
Inside Women's College Basketball
Author: Richard G. KentPublisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Women's college basketball has become the first of the women's team sports to be taken seriously by mainstream sports fans and media. Today it is a big business that each year closed the popularity gap on its bigger brother, men's college basketball. This book follows the exploits of the teams heavily favored to contend for the national championship in 2001-2002.
Mad Seasons
Author: Karra PorterPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803287895
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
As the popularity of women?s basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today?s Women?s National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years earlier. Porter tells the story of the Women?s Professional Basketball League WBL, which pioneered a new era of women?s sports. ø Formed in 1978, the league included the not-so-storied Dallas Diamonds, Chicago Hustle, and Minnesota Fillies. Porter?s book takes us into the heart of the WBL as teams struggled with nervous sponsors, an uncertain fan base, and indifferent sportswriters. Despite bouncing paychecks, having to sleep on floors, and being stranded on road games, the players endured and thrived. ø Karra Porter brings to life the pioneers of the WBL: ?Machine Gun? Molly Bolin, who set lasting scoring records?then faced an historic custody battle because of her basketball career; Connie Kunzmann, a popular player whose murder rocked the league; Liz Silcott, whose remarkable talents masked deeper problems off the court; Ann Meyers, who went from an NBA tryout to the league she had rebuffed; Nancy Lieberman, whose flashy play and marketing savvy were unlike anything the women's game had ever seen. ø A story of hardship and sacrifice, but also of dedication and love for the game, Mad Seasons brings the WBL back to life and shows in colorful detail how this short-lived but pioneering league ignited the imagination of a new generation of female athletes and fans.
Physical Science in Football
Author: Enzo GeorgePublisher: Science Gets Physical
ISBN: 9780778775461
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Whether you are throwing and catching in your backyard, playing touch football, or receiving the kick-off at the Super Bowl, you are demonstrating the laws of physics. Get an edge on your competitors with this informative book, which reveals the science of the game. Discover how air resistance and friction affects how a ball travels, how torque helps make a tackle, and why kinetic energy and impact make helmets necessary.
Dance Anatomy
Author: Jacqui Greene HaasPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1718219911
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Dance Anatomy, Third Edition, is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 dance, movement, and performance exercises to promote correct alignment, improved body placement, proper breathing, and management of common injuries
