Deep End of the Pool Workouts


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A guide to the hottest new trend in full-body, no-impact exercise—pool workouts where your feet never touch the bottom Whether you’re a professional athlete or general fitness enthusiast, wouldn’t you prefer a workout that’s kinder to your joints while also producing amazing results? Thanks to the higher force required to move your body against water’s resistance and the absence of any impact during the exercises, the workouts in this book do just that. By detailing proper form and technique, this handy guide makes sure you gain maximum benefit from your water workout, including greater: • SPEED • POWER • STRENGTH • FLEXIBILITY




Fundamentals of Track and Field


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Each event includes safety suggestions, teaching steps and drills, common errors and corrections, assessment and suggested performance standards.




Make the Pool Your Gym


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Water workouts provide a safe and fun way to lose weight, build muscle, and heal from injuries with zero harmful impact. Featuring clear instructions and helpful line drawings, Make the Pool Your Gym provides guidance for everyone to design their ultimate wet workout plans to get fit and feel great.




H2O Workouts¨ Pool Pretzel


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Francine Milford, LMT, CTN is a state and nationally licensed massage therapist and personal trainer. She is the creator of the H2O Workouts(R) series of water exercises. This book contains your choice of three levels of intensity and fitness. Work at your own pace. Francine has taught floor aerobics, senior aerobics, bench aerobics, Tai Chi for Arthritis, yoga, pilates, ball, ab express, Surf and Turf, weight training and water exercise classes for more twenty years. Additional titles in this series includes using your pool noodle, water yoga, pregnancy, qi gong and tai chi water. For more information on water exercises, please visit www.H2OWorkouts.com




Water Exercise


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Describes and illustrates a series of water exercises ranging from beginning to advanced levels, and outlines programs that concentrate on specific areas of the body.




Marathon, Revised and Updated 5th Edition


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Now completely updated and revised--a new edition of the long-running marathon training guide that has helped more than half a million people reach their goals. Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide is among the bestselling running books of all time for many reasons, but above all others is this one: It works. Marathon running has changed in the seven years since the fourth edition--there are more runners than ever before, the popularity of half-marathons has grown immensely, and guidelines for best recovery and diet practices have changed. This revised fifth edition includes a new chapter on ultramarathons, along with material on recovery techniques, several new training programs, and advice on how to win a Boston qualifying race and improve your personal record. At its core remains Hal Higdon's clear and essential information on injury prevention, training, and nutrition. Marathon demystifies the marathon experience and allows each runner to achieve peak performance without anguish or pain, taking the guesswork out of marathon training, whether it's for your first or fiftieth. With Higdon's comprehensive approach and tried-and-tested methods, any runner will learn how to optimize their training and achieve their marathon goals.




The Complete Guide to Running


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In "The Complete Guide to Running", the secrets of Earl Fee, a world master's champion, are revealed that helped him achieve over 30 world records in running. This material is supported by hundreds of references. Fifteen chapters explain how to improve general physical and mental fitness with major emphasis on mental training, nutrition, physiology, inspiration, and motivation. Ten chapters reveal the how and why of running training for sprinting, middle and long distance, hurdles, and running in the pool. Athletes from 9 to 90 will benefit from this information since all are bound by the same training principles. Precautions and training are explained for the extreme young and old.




One Hundred Years Young the Natural Way


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One Hundred Years Young the Natural Way promotes ageless aging and a higher quality life by introducing twenty-five main steps to promote longevity. This handbook offers tips not only on maintaining longevity, but also on body, mind, and spirit/spirituality training in three sections and 660 pages. Success in one area leads to success in the others, and so author Earl Fee focuses on all three aspects of personal health. One Hundred Years Young the Natural Way is a complete guide to longevity paving the way for a rich, long life by using natural methods to improve the quality of life. Including helpful information for diabetics and others with health challenges, it describes options for maintaining the healthiest diet possible. Fee explains that ten to twenty minutes of short-fast aerobic exercises can promote anti-aging more effectively than long, slow exercise sessions. He also explains that there are ten essential supplements, as well as seventeen of the best vitamin and mineral supplements that can help with the anti-aging process. From mental exercises that prevent dementia to ways to gain the power of the spirit, One Hundred Years Young the Natural Way proves that its never too late take control and develop new, healthy habits.




Therapeutic Electrophysical Agents


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Pocket-sized and perfect for learning or practice in any setting, Therapeutic Electrophysical Agents: An Evidence-Based Handbook, 4th Edition, instills the expertise with electrophysical agents needed for success in physical therapy. This proven, practical text is built on evidence from the most recent published peer-reviewed scientific and clinical literature, providing a credible and reliable foundation for safe, effective practice. The updated 4th edition features a new, streamlined design that emphasizes essential knowledge and skills in a compact, portable format preferred by today’s busy students and practitioners, accompanied by online resources that simplify conversion and dosimetric calculations to save time while ensuring accurate results.




H2O Workouts¨ Resource Guide for Aquatic Fitness Instructors


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H2O Workouts(R) Resource Guide for Aquatic Fitness Instructors by Francine Milford is used in the Basic Instructor Certification course which is available online at www.H2Oworkouts.com or in person at specific locations. Through this book you will learn about taking a given move and making it easier or harder through a variety of techniques such as speed, direction, movement and intesity. This book will teach you how to find your target heart rate and work within that range for optimal health and fitness. The water environment is a perfect place to find safe, fun and effective fitness exercises regardless of your current fitness level. Follow the easy photographs and diagrams in this book to guarantee a workout that is perfect for you and your fitness goals. Water exercises are great fun for all ages so be sure to include your family members in on the activity!