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From the 1960s to the 1980s, American television ran the public service announcement, "Do you know where your children are, " with a large 10 p.m. logo next to it. The idea was if our nation's youth were indoors by 10 p.m., they would be safe. The reality, however, is bad things can happen any time. Today, the new question should be, "It's 10 am. Do you know who your child is online with?" Awareness is Armor is the must-read prelude to self-de...

There is no question that the most popular fitness programs involve walking, jogging, or running. If you are a beginner looking for a fitness program or an experienced athlete "Fitness on Foot for Women" will help you to get the most out of your fitness regimen, whether it be walking, running, jogging, or orienteering, one of the fastest-growing sports for those who like to challenge their brains while conditioning their bodies. The beginner w...

Women's Basketball - Inside the Practice Court

Five-Star Basketball, the long-time leader in basketball instruction, has teamed up with six of the greatest professional women players to bring young players everywhere a state-of-the-art drill book like no other. Each chapter of the book breaks down a different star player's skills. Those skills are analysed by the player herself, her peers and the elite basketball experts of the Five-Star Camps. Then, the book provides a selection of drills...

Offers inspiring stories about the strong, competitive women who have helped to reshape women's collegiate sports. The coaches profiled include Tara Van Derveer, the 1996 Olympic basketball coach and winner of two national championships at Stanford, ice hockey coaches Digit Murphy, who was involved in the ground-breaking Title IX lawsuit against Brown University, and Shannon Miller, the only female head coach for women's ice hockey at the 1998...

Examines the learning process and gives the martial arts student hundreds of examples and solutions to problems he or she will encounter during training. More importantly, the aim of the book is to start the student on the road to becoming a critical thinker, a person who can use the highest stage of learning correlation to accelerate his or her education in the martial arts.

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Jenny Thompson grew up in a working class New England coastal town with a single mom and three older brothers. As her family struggled to make ends meet, Jenny found a bounty of good fortune and success in the swimming pool. The family folklore maintains that Jenny could swim before she could walk. This water baby went on to win eight Olympic Gold medals as one of the fastest female swimmers in the world. Jenny had to deal with some hardships,...

This book is a new edition of the 2003 Penguin text (978-0142196229). Jennifer Lawler, a martial arts teacher and second-degree black belt, shares one hundred ot the life lessons she has learned from the martial arts and teaches her readers how to find their inner warrior. Each lesson begins with a description and explanation, then offers a short exercise to illustrate how to apply the teaching in everyday situations.

Finding the time to workout seems to be the biggest complaint that people have. Our lives are so full from morning until night and finding an hour or two to exercise sometimes feels impossible. This frustration makes most people avoid exercising all together. This book shows readers how to use things they already have around the house in a faster workout that can be varied on a daily basis to keep exercise fresh and fun, yet still accomplish t...

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Goalkeepers have their own little style. Each one will exhibit some kind of flare to her skills. The important part is that the base technique is consistent across the board for all goalkeepers. With a few ittle tweeks here and there, you can get your goalkeeper to a level of play that will make her and your team successful. Sometimes to fix a echnique requires trying an alternative in teaching or "outside the box" thinking for drills an...

Six respected experts in the field of strength training and athlete development have come together to create this comprehensive and user-friendly guide to increasing female athletic performance. Appropriate for the weekend athlete as well as the elite, this book is free from the technical jargon that makes many serious training books unpalatable to the average reader, including an entire chapter that addresses the common questions that most wo...

Revolving around her own quest to learn to fly fish on the Lower Laguna Madre of deep South Texas, "On the Mother Lagoon" weaves ageless principles of women's psychology and yoga with a fresh, distinctly feminine approach to fly-fishing.

This searing confessional reads like a novel and is just as suspenseful... Any female athlete would be interested in this story." -- Library Journal Lisa Whitsett grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she began the first of 27 years dedicated to sports and athletics. Her experiences as a mental health counselor and her adventures as a business consultant motivated her to write about development, change and transformation. Beneath the Armor of...

Five-Star Basketball, the long-time leader in basketball instruction, has teamed up with six of the greatest professional women players to bring young players everywhere a state-of-the-art drill book like no other. Each chapter of the book breaks down a different star player's skills. Those skills are analysed by the player herself, her peers and the elite basketball experts of the Five-Star Camps. Then, the book provides a selection of drills...

Fast Lane to Victory: The Story of Jenny Thompson Jenny Thompson grew up in a working class New England coastal town with a single mom and three older brothers. As her family struggled to make ends meet, Jenny found a bounty of good fortune and success in the swimming pool. The family folklore maintains that Jenny could swim before she could walk. This water baby went on to win eight Olympic Gold medals as one of the fastest female swimmer...