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Book SynopsisRunning: it's as simple as striding forward just one foot after another, but as author Michael Clinton has learned over more than 40 years as a runner, it s so much more than just exercise. It s a test of physical and mental endurance and a way to connect with the environment, the global community of runners, and, ultimately, yourself. From the streets of Paris, Buenos Aires, all the way to Sydney, Clinton has gone the distance, never forgetting his running shoes in all of his globetrotting adventures to over 120 countries. In Tales from the Trails, Clinton along with numerous contributors, including George A. Hirsch, chairman of the New York Road Runners and founder of the New York City five-borough marathon, detail inspirational stories of trial, tribulation, and triumph, revealing how running has helped one find love, strengthened a relationship with God, and assisted in overcoming fear and disappointment. Tales from the Trails is a reminder to lace up and hit the trails to run for your life, love, and happiness.

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Book SynopsisGet lean, build muscle, and stay healthy! A Fitness Hall of Fame inductee and world-famous exercise scientist explains high-intensity interval training and the nutrition that complements it, and provides a wealth of workouts, including workouts you can do at home, so you can get and keep the body you've always wanted.High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is an extraordinarily effective form of training that mixes high- and low-impact activities during periods ranging from seconds to eight minutes. In HIIT Your Limit, Dr. Len Kravitz, a National Fitness Hall of Fame inductee and internationally-renowned exercise scientist for the past thirty-six years, explains what HIIT is and how it effects your entire body (externally and internally), gives 50 workouts and a plan to whip you into shape fast, and presents a wealth of nutritional and other advice to further its impact.HIIT was recently rated the #1 new fitness trend by the American College of Sports Medicine and is the key to staying fit for celebrities like David Beckham, Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, and Scarlett Johansson. In addition to fat loss, it’s been proven to have major health benefits on blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol. Through this groundbreaking volume you'll learn why, and see how to get fit quick and have a fun and truly sustainable exercise program, no expensive personal trainer required.Trade Review“HIIT Your Limit is packed full of useful advice on living a healthier, fitter life and Dr. Kravitz’s zeal will inspire you to make small changes that lead to huge results!”—Tony Boutagy, PhD, Strength Coach, Exercise Physiologist, and Award-Winning Fitness Book Author “Here you’re getting the very best: unlimited great ideas that are simple to implement to really get results!” —Keli Roberts, National Fitness Hall of Fame Inductee, IDEA International Fitness Instructor of the Year “Dr. Kravitz is an international leader in the health and fitness industry and has a gift for making the science of exercise make sense!” —Terry Eckmann, PhD, Professor and International Fitness Presenter “HIIT Your Limit is the perfect read for anyone and everyone looking for a motivating guide to exercise right and eat healthy for lifelong wellness.” —Sara Kooperman, JD, CEO, SCW Fitness Education, Illinois State Businesswoman of the Year, National Fitness Hall of Fame Inductee “Dr. Kravitz is a legend in the fitness industry. His new book, HIIT Your Limit, will get you moving and take you to YOUR limit!” —Lawrence Biscontini, M.A., IDEA Instructor of the Year, CanFitPro International Presenter of the Year “Dr. Kravitz has a way of taking decades of exercise and nutritional science and bringing it to us in a concise and incredibly useful way. I recommend that all my patients read HIIT Your Limit, digest it, and exercise this resource for a healthy life!” —Dr. Bruce Allsop, Family Medicine Practitioner “Following this program of diet and lifestyle changes can help you lose and maintain weight, in addition to helping you live a longer, more vibrant life in the optimal amount of time.” —Matthew G. Pinto, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, National Medical Director at the Center for Medical Weight Loss, Diplomat of the American College of Osteopathic Family Medicine, and Diplomat of the American Board of Obesity MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to a Fabulous Key to Health––Exercise! My Moving Forward Message to You! SECTION 1: Exercise, HIIT, and You! Let’s Get Moving on the RIGHT Track! Chapter 1: What are the Health Benefits of Exercise? Exercise is the ‘Super Pill’ to Quality of Life Benefits Sitting is the New ‘Smoking Disease’ Great News! Health Care Providers are Now Encouraging People to Exercise! Chapter 2: What is High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)? Why Is HIIT So Popular? How Are HIIT Programs Developed? Maximize the Results and Minimize the Risks with Your HIIT Workouts! How Many Times a Week Can You Do a HIIT Workout? Let’s Give HIIT a Try! Chapter 3: What Are the Health Benefits of HIIT? How Much Can HIIT Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness? What Is the Effect of HIIT on Insulin Sensitivity? What Is the Effect of HIIT on Cholesterol Levels? What Is the Effect of HIIT on Blood Pressure? How Does HIIT Impact Fat Loss and Weight Management? Summary of the Major Health Benefits of HIIT Chapter 4: How Does Your Body Power Your HIIT Workouts? Introducing ATP, the Fuel for Life and Exercise The Aerobic Energy System: The Long-Term Exercise Pathway The Anaerobic Energy System: The Glucose-Fueled Rapid Energy System The Tale of Lactate The Cardiorespiratory Systems Delivers the Oxygen The Muscles Are the ‘Engines’ that Do the Work Chapter 5: How to Succeed in an Exercise Program: Ten Steps to Follow Chapter 6: Do It Right: Avoid These Exercise Mistakes Chapter 7: Time for Your Heart Health Pre-Check Chapter 8: Let’s Get UP and START MOVING NOW! Introducing, ‘For Every 30 Get Your 3’ Implications from the Sedentary Behavior Research SECTION 2: Optimal Weight (Fat) Loss Strategies that Work! Chapter 9: Successful Weight Management; ‘Inch by Inch, It’s a Cinch’ Obesity Statistics with an Optimistic Outlook Introducing, ‘Inch by Inch, It’s a Cinch’ Is There Any Science to Using a Small-Changes Approach? Chapter 10: What Does Energy Balance Mean in Weight Management? The Energy in The Foods We Eat What Are RMR, TEF and AEE; The Illustrious Acronyms of Weight Management? How Much Energy Does the Human Body Store? The Regulation of Energy Expenditure Picture…Is There a Set Point? How Do We Know When to Eat and When to Stop Eating? Where Does Exercise Fit Into the “Energy Balance” Equation? Prominent Questions and Answers on Energy Balance Chapter 11: Lessons from ‘The Biggest Loser’ TV Show Resting Metabolic Rate Changes with Weight Loss Did the Rapid Weight Loss of the Contestants Influence their Weight Regain? Stop: Is It True that ‘Dieting ONLY Programs Can Actually Make You Fat?’ What Role Does Genetics Play in Weight Management? Chapter 12. Secrets from the REAL LIFE Biggest Losers! Introducing the National Weight Control Registry What Strategies Work for these Long-Term Weight Loss Success Winners? How Much Physical Activity are Registry Members Doing? What Happens to Registry Members Who Regain Weight? What Sparks Most People in the NWCR to Initially Start Their Weight Loss Plan? What Commonalities Are Observed With NWCR Members Diet? Practical Take-Home from the REAL LIFE Biggest Losers Chapter 13: Is There a Healthiest Diet I Should Consider? What Are Telomeres and Why Did the Researchers Measure Them? What Did the Researchers Find? What Are the Mechanisms of the Mediterranean Diet that Promote Longevity? Wait, Are There Any Limitations of This Study? How Does Physical Activity Effect Telomere Length? Special question: What is Inflammation? Should You Choose the Mediterranean Diet? Chapter 14. Low Carbohydrate Versus Low Fat Diets: What Is the Verdict? The Case for Low Carbohydrate, High Protein Diets The Case for Low Fat Diets What Does the Science Show? Which Diet is Better for Weight Loss? The Verdict: Which Is Better for Weight Loss: Low Fat or Low Carbohydrate Chapter 15: The Stress-Cortisol-Obesity Connection What Are the Stress Response Pathways? So What Can You Do About Chronic Stress? Chapter 16: 50 Frequently Asked Health, Nutrition and Weight Management Questions Questions on Health Questions on Nutrition Questions on Weight Management SECTION 3: Let’s HIIT the Workouts! Chapter 17: Let’s Go Over the Pre-Exercise Fundamentals Please Get Physician Clearance Before Starting Your Workouts Wear Proper Exercise Gear for Your HIIT Workouts Your Footwear Boosts the Workouts You Need a Workout Timer Chapter 18: Your Workout Warm-Up and Cool-Down Are Important––Here’s Why? The Warm-Up: Preparing the Body and Turning on Fat Burning! The Workout Cool-Down: Calming Your Body and Mind Chapter 19: How Hard Should You Workout? Introducing the M.I.I.T. Exertion Monitoring Method The Talk Test is an Accurate Gauge of Exercise Intensity, Too! Overexertion Carefulness! Chapter 20: Your HIIT Workouts Plan Preface to Your HIIT Workout Plan How to Integrate HIIT Workouts with Your Steady State Workouts Chapter 21: Your HIIT Workouts––Enjoy! Workout #1: 60s/90s HIIT Workout #2: 60s/60s HIIT Workout #3: 60s/30s HIIT Workout #4: 90s/30s HIIT Workout #5: 30s/30s HIIT Workout #6: 30s/45s HIIT Workout #7: 30s/60s HIIT Workout #8: 30s/90s HIIT Workout #9: 3m/3m HIIT Workout #10: 3m/4m HIIT Workout #11: 3m/6m HIIT Workout #12: 4m/3m HIIT Workout #13: 4m/2m HIIT Workout #14: 8s/12s HIIT Workout #15: 15s/15s HIIT Workout #16: 30s/4.5min HIIT Workout #17: 4min/1-2-4min HIIT Workout #18: 5min/5min HIIT Workout #19: 2min/1min HIIT Workout #20: 2min/2min HIIT Chapter 22: The Future of HIIT Workouts––20 MORE Workouts! SECTION 4: 100 WINNING Ways to Cut Calories in Your Daily Life Smart Swap Winning Ways Winning Behaviors to Follow in Your Daily Life Winning Ideas to Follow at Home Distinctively Unique Winning Ways to Cut Calories My Salutation to You: The After Workout! Closing Thoughts To Reflect!

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Book SynopsisAfter playing 4 quarters of hard-fought football games, the Massillon Tiger football team gathered in a circle at the center of every football field they played on in 2019 to do 15 pushups—a pushup for every game it would take to lead them to the State Championship game. The mantra for the season became: 15 for 15. Each pushup is represented as a chapter in this book and a different piece of the puzzle that explains the football town of Massillon, Ohio. In this dramatic and entertaining book, Author and Tiger running back coach, David Lee Morgan, Jr. shares stories that offer a unique and unequaled perspective into the 2019 season and the Tigers’ quest for that elusive state championship. The Massillon Tiger football program isn’t a typical high school football program. It’s a ministry of football with the first season dating back to 1894. The Massillon Tigers: 15 for 15 is the powerful tale of one of the most storied high school football programs anywhere in the country and their magical 2019 season, as told by an award-winning author and journalist who enjoyed unlimited access to the players, coaches, and families through his role as the running backs coach.

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Book SynopsisThe 30 Day Return to Play Journal is a mindset tool and resource for your athlete to navigate the mental aspect of returning to play after an injury. The injury cycle can be a devastating time for an athlete. Sports not only create healthy coping and positive identity in young athletes, they also give us built in mentors, friendships and accountability. When an athlete is injured, those valuable resources and systems are suddenly and abruptly put on hold and can lead to lowered mood, increased anxiety about their future, identity confusion and fear of re-injury. Use this journal to create new mindset habits and learn performance tools such as visualization, journaling, value setting, creating a support system and more. This journal isn’t just a tool for athletes, it’s also an important resource for coaches, athletic trainers, sports med, physical therapist and parents who work closely with athletes during the injury cycle.

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Book SynopsisPurpose Over Position is not just a motto to live by, it is a way of life that has the ability to transcend the way we think. This book is comprised of spiritual, inspirational and motivational substance to aid in living your Kingdom Purpose on Earth. Life deserves more than settling for temporary pleasures, titles and mediocracy. It is natural to focus on climbing the corporate ladder on the job, earning a starting position on a sports team, or pursuing financial wealth. However this book brings attention to the supernatural by focusing the perspective on God’s Kingdom displayed on Earth. Our positions in life seem to always be at the forefront of our minds, which hinders us from living life more abundantly. This faith-based book is designed to help us live in purpose, on purpose, and with purpose!

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an account of the use of computational tactical metrics in improving sports analysis, in particular the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data in soccer. As well as offering a practical perspective on collective behavioural analysis, it introduces the computational metrics available in the literature that allow readers to identify collective behaviour and patterns of play in team sports. These metrics only require the bio-dimensional geo-referencing information from GPS or video-tracking systems to provide qualitative and quantitative information about the tactical behaviour of players and the inter-relationships between teammates and their opponents. Exercises, experimental cases and algorithms enable readers to fully comprehend how to compute these metrics, as well as introducing them to the ultimate performance analysis tool, which is the basis to run them on. The script to compute the metrics is presented in Python. The book is a valuable resource for professional analysts as well students and researchers in the field of sports analysis wanting to optimise the use of GPS trackers in soccer. Trade Review“I truly believe that the information generated in this way should be highly valuable for soccer coaches, in particular to improve the tactical behavior of a team.” (Christian Meyer, SIAM Review, Vol. 61 (4), December, 2019)Table of ContentsBrief review about computational metrics used in team sports.- How to use the dots to analyze the behavior and the collective organization.- Individual metrics to characterize the player’s behavior: variability in the trajectories and external load.- Metrics to measure the center of the team.- Metrics to measure the dispersion of the players.- Metrics to tactical analysis.- The use of computational metrics in case studies: from small-sided games to official 11 vs. 11.

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Book SynopsisStudierende und Referendare aller Lehramtstudiengänge sowie Lehrer aller Schulformen und Schulstufen benötigen für die Planung, Reflexion und Auswertung des Sportunterricht sportdidaktisches und -pädagogisches Orientierungswissen. Dieses Wissen wird in diesem Buch fundiert, strukturiert und leicht verständlich vermittelt.

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Book SynopsisThe architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society - they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Soviet leadership used sports as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy and test their efforts to mechanize and perfect the human body, drawing on knowledge from physiology, biology, medicine, and hygiene. At the same time, however, such efforts, like any form of social control, could easily lead to discontent - and thus, the editors show, a study of changes in public attitude toward sports can offer insight into overall levels of integration, dissatisfaction, and social exhaustion in the Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisZum hochintensiven Intervalltraining im Sportunterricht liegt bis dato keine Studie vor, in der die subjektiven Erfahrungen der Schülerinnen und Schüler berücksichtigt werden. Entsprechend hat Milan Dransmann das HIIT im Rahmen einer Feldstudie sowohl für die Ausdauerleistungsfähigkeit als auch für die subjektive Trainingsqualität mit der extensiven Dauermethode verglichen. Die Ausdauerleistung wurde in einem Ein- und Ausgangstest beurteilt. Zur empirischen Erfassung der subjektiven Erfahrungen wurde ein semantisches Differential entwickelt, dass eine ästhetische, eine aufgabenbezogene und eine anforderungsbezogene Trainingsqualität abbildet. In beiden Versuchsgruppen verbesserte sich die Ausdauerleistung signifikant, die HIIT-Gruppe benötigte im Vergleich zur Dauermethoden-Gruppe jedoch nur die Hälfte der Zeit.Table of ContentsAusdauer, Training und Ausdauertraining.- Ausdauertrainingsinterventionen im Sportunterricht.- HIIT-Interventionen im Sportunterricht.- Sport als ästhetische Praxis.- Subjektive Trainingsqualität.

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch zielt darauf ab die Aspekte Leisten, Leistung und Leistungsbewertung sowie die Themen Diversität und Diversitätssensiblität aus sportpädagogischer Perspektive zusammenzubringen und hierzu Basiswissen aufzuzeigen. Vor dem Hintergrund des aktuellen Forschungsstands wird ein theoretischer Bezugsrahmen für einen diversitätssensiblen Umgang mit leistungsthematischen Situationen im Sportunterricht dargestellt und durch Praxisbeispiele veranschaulicht.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Leistungsauslegungen im Kontext Schule – Gesellschaft.- Leistungsverständnis in bewegungs- und sportbezogenen Handlungsfeldern.- Leisten und Leistung(en) im Sportunterricht.- Leistungen im Sportunterricht bewerten und beurteilen.- Diversität(-ssensibilität) – Anforderungen und Erwartungen an Sportunterricht.- Entwurf von Gestaltungsprinzipien eines diversitätssensiblen Sportunterrichts.- Leisten, Leistung, Leistungsbewertung in einem diversitätssensiblen Sportunterricht.- Das Leisten erfahren, verstehen, einschätzen – diversitätssensibel und exemplarisch.

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