sports guide books : 101 results priced between £5.00 and £50.00

Boost your energy, manage stress, build muscle, lose fat, and improve your performance with the all-time best-selling sports nutrition guide! Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook will help you make the right food choices in grocery stores, restaurants, drive-throughs, and your own kitchen. Whether you're preparing for competition or simply eating on the go, let sport's leading nutritionist show you how to get maximum benefit from the foods you choose and the meals you make. You'll learn how to...

Includes the athletes' guide to treating sports injuries, pain and deciding when to keep playing and when to possibly stop. This book is for athletes, coaches, health and fitness professionals, and those interested in sports medicine. It contains details of body conditioning, nutrition, equipment choice and repair techniques to prevent injuries.

This book will be of interest to athletes, coaches, health and fitness professionals, students and the general public interested in sports medicine. It includes the athletes' guide to treating sports injuries, pain and deciding when to keep playing and when to possibly stop. Included are details of body conditioning, nutrition, equipment choice and repair techniques to prevent injuries.

Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes - whether it is a matter of carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of a workout. This book combines the unique demands of sports with the vegetarian diet.

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Jingo Wobbly's 'Europe - Sport Vertical'is the only definitive and comprehensive guidebook to all the climbing available in Europe, neatly packaged into a single volume, whichshould easily fit intoa rucksack. 384 pages 96 Climbing diagrams - fo

This encyclopedia is being characterised as the best sports guidebook for children, who are introduced to sports and want to learn more about the rules as well as the little details and secrets hidden within the rules. Packed with amazing step-by-step illustrations and clear explanations, this book shows children how over 100 sports are played.

Buy Sports History: A Practical Guide by Martin Polley - Sainsburys Entertainment

Based on latest research, this comprehensive book guides the reader through the 'how to' of sports coaching, covers all the essential elements of coaching and demonstrates how effective coaching practice can be developed.

The best-selling comprehensive guide to sports injuries, now completely updated! Sports Injuries: a Self-Help Guide describes how the body works, why injuries happen in adults and children, how to deal with them, whom to consult, complications and consequences of injuries, recovery through rehabilitation exercise programmes, safety measures and injury prevention. Three hundred line drawings illustrate a full range of recovery exercises through stretching, strengthening, mobilizing, and coordinating...

Buy Sports Sponsorship - A Professional's Guide by Brian Simms - Sainsburys Entertainment

"Easy-to-find entries include a description of common causes, injury identification cues, explanation of symptoms, full colour anatomical illustrations, treatment options, and a plan for returning to action quickly and safely. Sports Injuries Guidebook also ensures that you’ll be spending more time in the game than on the sidelines by providing additional coverage on conditioning, body maintenance, and nutrition to keep injuries at bay."

Junior Sports Encyclopaedia: 3D Illustrated Guidebook

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'Moorland' makes up the largest single vegetation type in the United Kingdom. It is internationally important culturally and nationally valuable for agriculture, conservation and field sports. Over the past half-century, many aspects have been subjected to detailed scientific study so the scale and depth of knowledge about this area is greater than ever before. However, as mans' understanding has increased, management standards have tended to decline in many places and there are fewer people living...

Buy Fixed Odds Sports Betting: The Essential Guide by Joseph Buchdahl - Sainsburys Entertainment

Women who exercise regularly have specific nutritional needs. Carefully researched and fully up to date, and written by an experienced sports nutritionist, Anita Bean's book is written in a clear and accessible way to appeal directly to active women. This book covers topics such as exercise and the menstrual cycle, bone health, disordered eating, weight loss and iron deficiency anaemia. Around 45% of women take place in sport or physical activity, and over 4.4 million women are members of sports...

Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting edge studies on strategy and player evaluation. Today, he cochairs the sports statistics section of the International Statistics Institute and consults with several professional teams and businesses in sports analytics. There isn't a better...

Sport plays a crucially important role in our society and the benefits of participating in sport and physical activity are widely acknowledged in terms of personal health and well-being. Coaching makes a key contribution to sport, helps to promote social inclusion and participation, and assists athletes in achieving performance targets. Accordingly, this authoritative and comprehensive reference work will be widely welcomed. Written by acknowledged experts, it presents a detailed analysis of performance...

Sports Injuries provides an indispensable self-help guide to all the common injuries that occur. This book will help to: quickly pinpoint the source of the injury; know which conditions you can treat yourself and when to visit an expert; stay fit and flexible during recovery; and, encourage your body to heal faster. Easy-to-follow illustrations help you to locate the area of pain quickly then guide you through a range of simple self-diagnostic tests and medical options. Once the problem and course...

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Handbook of Set Design (Crowood Sports Guide) by Colin Winslow (Author) Format: Paperback (192 pages) ISBN 10: 1861268130 ISBN 13: 9781861268136 Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd Published: 31 Mar 2006 5 in stock Item Condition: Brand New Price:£15.06List Price: £19.95You Save:£4.89 (25%) Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Description:A guide to designing scenery of various kinds for a variety of stages. It takes you through the process of turning initial...

Featured in this book are: Information boxes containing Key Points and Top tips Sequence photographs and detailed diagrams in colour A thorough analysis of the four strokes [Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle] Starts and turns analysis, including the individual Medley Valuable advice on techniques, coaching, drills, training, tapering, nutrition and competition psychology Introduction to rules and equipment

Now in its fourth edition with the revised title - Managing Sports Injuries: a guide for students and clinicians - this highly practical guide maintains its evidence-based approach while introducing new material from both research and clinical sources. It is a comprehensive resource for the management of soft-tissue injuries, focusing on therapy.

The essential elements of sports ground management and administration. Procurement, contract management, strategy, management plans and performance standards. Event management and health and safety. Sports ground construction, development and resourcing. Mechanization, material and equipment management. The construction and maintenance of many different kinds of sports pitches and surfaces including winter games pitches, bowling greens, croquet lawns, cricket pitches, tennis courts, horse racing...

Daniel Townend has interviewed many spread betting insiders in the spread betting firms, sports journalists and successful punters to compile this definitive and up-to-date guide to all aspects of Sports Spread Betting. The book includes chapters on the major individual sports, details of all the different markets offered and the differences between the spread betting firms.

Fully illustrated with instructional photography and line drawings, this text gives an overview of the game from training and practice exercises to advice on match play and fitness programmes.

Crowood Sports Guides are superbly designed full colour paperbacks providing sound practical advice that will help make you a better player whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques and tactics or reviewing the fundamentals of your game.

'Table Tennis' Description "Crowood Sports Guides" provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your game.

This text is well-illustrated, with full colour sequence photographs and diagrams and gives practical advice from basic skills to more advanced play. It includes a an introduction to the history and rules of the game thorough examination of core skills, tactical analysis of the attacking and defending principles of the game and advice on coaching, nutrition and the competitive structure within the sport. Highly recommended.

Featured in this new publication are full colour sequence photographs, rules of the game, detailed analysis of both movement and individual netball skills, match analysis methods, tactics and game principles in attack and defence and training principles and methods, nutrition and sport psychology. Highly recommended.

A well-illustrated and comprehensive guide to sports training, suitable for competitors, coaches and trainers. Starting with the basics the book works through the theory to show how to develop a specific training plan that every athlete or team needs.

Crowood Sports Guides are superbly designed full colour paperbacks providing sound practical advice that will help make you a better player whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques and tactics or reviewing the fundamentals of your game.

Women who exercise regularly may be prone to health-related problems that could be prevented or alleviated by improved nutrition. This book draws together recent research into the specific nutritional requirements of active women, and translates it into meaningful information and practical advice. Topics covered include bone health, body image, dieting, eating disorders and pregnancy.;This will be of interest to fitness instructors, coaches, managers, nutritionists and teachers who work with female...

Professional Chef: Level 2 is the ultimate guide for aspiring chefs looking to excel in their studies and progress towards a rewarding and stimulating career. Providing complete coverage of the NVQ level 2 food preparation and cookery qualification, it clearly explains the skills, techniques and underpinning... [more]