The Super Sprinter's Handbook


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If you want to improve by over 10%%%% in under a month, then this is your book! Drop at least one second in your next 100 sprint just by changing your warm up. Learn how a jelly fish can teach you to improve your breast stroke kick by up to 60%%%%. Streamline significantly further by learning better breath control. Reduce your body drag by up to 7%%%% without a body suit. Every technique presented in this book is proven to work by numerous scientific studies. The information is presented in an easy to read style with real world stories from actual swimmers and over 100 tips for improving your times. Read how they overcame common problems using the techniques presented in this book to go from ordinary swimmers to great swimmers to elite swimmers. For every swimmer looking to improve their times, start here. Everything in this book just plain works!




Sprint


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From inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution? Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign. In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book. A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It can replace the old office defaults with a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team—and helps you spend your time on work that really matters.




The Sport Psychologist's Handbook


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A practical handbook for sports psychologists that outlines the most effective interventions for athletes across a variety of sports. A practical manual for the growing force of sports psychologists helping today's athletes to unprecedented levels of application and success Offers specific guidance on the psychological assessment of athletes, uniquely presented in an accessible sport-by-sport format Written by an experienced practicing sports psychologist and author, who draws on his own methods and experience in the field




My Book of Horses and Ponies


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Saddle up and get ready to explore the magnificent world of horses! Do you dream about riding a horse and want to know more about them? Would you like to learn how to care for a horse, what equipment to use, or enter the world of equestrian sports? Discover the secrets of horses and ponies in this fun, lively book. Read all about favorite breeds from the Shire horse to the Shetland pony. Find out about horses and ponies from around the globe, and be amazed by their beautiful colorings and patterns. Filled with stunning photographs, simple illustrations, and fantastic facts, this book features all the information a child would need to know about these wonderful animals, including their gaits-from trotting to galloping, horse families, and why horseback riding is good for you. My Book of Horses and Ponies is an engaging, informative children's book that will captivate curious minds. Young equine enthusiasts will be excited to read this wonderful treasury of horses and ponies.




A Comprehensive Guide to Railway Request Stops


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Rail By Request is an enthusiast’s personal story and tells how the author visited, photographed, and spent time at every request stop on mainland Britain. It also explains where his love of railways is rooted, why he began this odyssey and how it became a very different and important experience to him. Journeying across the whole railway map to capture these often ignored stops – not just for posterity, but for the journey. The lure of request stops and the practicalities of completing the journey to discover them, is the core of the story. Researching every request stop in Britain and planning how to get there and overcoming any difficulties, became a source of great satisfaction. Every stop is described and has at least one illustration. Some historical context to the stops is included, with current statistics. The story also shows how, he ticked off each stop, but unexpectedly found himself passing the time engaged in a form of railwayana mindfulness – allowing the world to rush past whilst being alive in the moment. It shows a calmer slower world does exist.




The Rocket Sprint Start


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Service Design for Business


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A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that can be implemented immediately. You'll learn how taking a design approach to problem solving helps foster creativity, and how to apply it to the real issues that move businesses forward. Highly visual and organized for easy navigation, this quick read is a handbook for connecting market factors to the organizational challenge of customer experience by seeing your company through the customers' eyes. Livework pioneered the service design industry, and guides organizations including Sony, the British Government, Volkswagen Procter & Gamble, the BBC, and more toward a more carefully curated customer experience. In this book, the Livework experts show you how to put service design to work in your company to solve the ongoing challenge of winning with customers. Approach customer experience from a design perspective See your organization through the lens of the customer Make customer experience an organization-wide responsibility Analyze the market factors that dovetail with customer experience design The Internet and other digital technology has brought the world to your customers' fingertips. With unprecedented choice, consumers are demanding more than just a great product—the organizations coming out on top are designing and delivering experiences tailored to their customers' wants. Service Design for Business gives you the practical insight and service design perspective you need to shape the way your customers view your organization.




Saints Row IV Signature Series Strategy Guide


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The Saints are once again thrust into the limelight, only this time they aren't viewed as criminals. The leader of the Saints ran for office and won! Now the President of the United States, he must help stop an alien invasion for ruining the world. This strategy guide contains all the strategy, tips and hints needed to send the aliens packing to their home planet. You'll find: *Comprehensive Walkthrough *Boss Fight Strategy *All Collectibles Revealed *Locate Every Important Item




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Triathlon Training


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Every man an Iron Man, and every woman, too! No longer exclusive events reserved for only the most committed athletes, triathlons, duathlons (bike and run), and aquathons (swim and run) now attract hundreds of thousands of Americans. Filled with the inside tips, practical advice, and photos, this is the book for any man or woman who wants to compete in multi-sport events, regardless of experience level. --Authors are experienced triathlon competitors and personal trainers --Tips on setting up, equipment, training, diet, and motivation --Dozens of exciting instructional photos




The Ultimate Player's Guide to LEGO Dimensions [Unofficial Guide]


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The Ultimate Player’s Guide to LEGO® DimensionsTM, Unofficial Guide Your Adventure Begins! In LEGO® DimensionsTM, you can bring together all your favorite heroes, from BatmanTM to Scooby-DooTM, or The LEGO® Movie to The Lord of the RingsTM. To master this great game, you need a great guide. Here it is! You’ll love this full-color book no matter how old you are–whether you’re a player or a parent who wants to help your kids succeed. It will help you discover Dimensions’ most powerful secrets–and it’s so easy! James Floyd Kelly guides you through everything: setup, rules, characters, vehicles, puzzles, game play, strategies, and more. You’ll get started quickly, explore the entire Starter Pack, master all the adventure worlds...even the Bonus Levels! You won’t just read: This is your complete traveler’s notebook, packed with space for planning your travels, sharing your discoveries, and even displaying your own game pictures! · Set up the game and start your adventure · Explore and fix the broken gateway · Survive meltdown at Sector 7-G, and beat the Joker-Bot · Team up Wyldstyle, Batman, and Gandalf to defeat Master Chen · Overcome Cybermen and Daleks in your Doctor WhoTM adventure · Defeat Sauron and Two-Face in the streets of Metropolis · Liberate Minas Tirith from The Riddler and his army of orcs · Master the tricky new puzzles in LEGO Movie Story Mode · Transform yourself to escape the citadel and defeat Lord Vortech · Enter DC World with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Joker, or Bane · Save Bricksburg! Restore the Saloon, Billboards, Rainbow, and Octan Tower · Master six bonus levels: Back to the FutureTM, The SimpsonsTM, PortalTM 2, Doctor Who, GhostbustersTM, and Mystery World Bonus: Available online only are two appendixes: “Character Abilities” and “Vehicles and Upgrades.” See the table of contents for more information.