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Fad Diets (DVD)
Fad diets seem to find their way into the headlines of all forms of the media. With the bombardment of information, it can be difficult to separate the good from the not so good involving fad diets. Along with an overview of what's out there, Fad Diets breaks down, reviews, and categorizes the basic types of fad diets. The DVD details why they...
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Lost and Found in the Grocery Store (DVD)
Grocery shopping can be an intimidating experience because of the time it takes to locate the food you need or want. As a result, too often, we find either high-calorie fast-foods or foods lacking in nutritive value. Filmed in an actual grocery store, Lost and Found in the Grocery Store shows how to find fewer calories and the best foods in a...
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Monitoring Exercise Training (DVD)
Monitoring Exercise Training presents a detailed overview of how individuals can determine whether their exercise program is working. The DVD reviews approaches to monitoring training that are designed to help individuals know whether their exercise program is achieving the desired results and whether they need to make adjustments in their...
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Nutrition for Optimal Performance (revised edition) (DVD)
Nutrition for Optimal Performance discusses the body's need for macronutrients and micronutrients and reviews what foods to choose to maximize performance. The DVD details the most appropriate sources of training 'fuel' for each of the three nutrients that provide energyÑcarbohydrates, protein, and fat. The DVD also addresses how physically active...
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Nutrition for the Female Athlete (DVD)
Nutrition for the Female Athlete presents a comprehensive overview of the nutritional issues that physically active women face. The DVD details the macronutrient and micronutrient needs of women athletes and offers several practical suggestions on how physically active women can effectively deal with their nutritional demands. Among the topics...
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Nutrition for the Mature Adult (DVD)
Mature adults have unique nutritional needs and challenges associated with aging. Nutrition for the Mature Adult reviews the nutritional concerns of older adults and offers detailed recommendations concerning how to meet the nutritional needs of the aging population. The DVD features a detailed overview of the nutritional challenges that arise as...
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Nutritional Supplements (revised edition) (DVD)
Conservative estimates suggest that Americans annually spend approximately 33 billion dollars on various types of nutritional supplements. In Nutritional Supplements, one of the world's most respected nutrition experts presents an overview of the different categories of supplement users and the various kinds of supplements that would typically be...
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Obesity in Children: Tackling a Growing Problem (DVD)
Obesity in Children: Tackling a Growing Problem presents an overview of the complex and interrelated factors that contribute to the rise in obesity prevalence in children and adolescents. The dual epidemics of overweight and inactivity in youth are addressed. Specific recommendations and evidenced-based strategies for developing and implementing...
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Out to Lunch--Eating in Restaurants (DVD)
In recent years, the trend of people eating many of their meals out has continued to increase. In response to the demand from their customers, many restaurants are making healthy changes to their menu offerings. Out to LunchÑEating in Restaurants reviews current restaurant trends concerning healthy practices and menu offerings and offers...
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Pacing Strategy: The Unexplored Territory in Sport Science (DVD)
Pacing Strategy: The Unexplored Territory in Sports Science presents a detailed overview of how athletes deliberately expend their energy to optimize their level of performance or to serve as part of a strategic effort to break an opponent, either in the short-term or the long-term. The DVD reviews studies that have been conducted on pacing...
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Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Conditioning Athletes (DVD)
Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Conditioning Athletes reviews the training mistakes that can keep athletes from achieving their goals and what coaches can do to avoid them. The DVD places particular emphasis on the factors involved in the overtraining syndrome and what can be done to treat it. The DVD also explains why sometimes training can...
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Plyometrics for the Strength-Power Athlete (DVD)
Plyometrics for the Strength-Power Athlete presents an overview of how to incorporate plyometric training into a basic strength and conditioning program. The DVD discusses why plyometric exercises are not meant to be conditioning drills, rather they are designed to improve the power-performance level of athletes. How and why plyometric exercises...
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Smart Shopping and Food Preparation (DVD)
Supermarkets are designed to encourage shoppers to fill their grocery carts. Little effort is typically expended in supermarkets to encourage shoppers to make healthy food choices. Smart Shopping and Food Preparation reviews the key factors involved in how consumers can make a 'healthy' grocery list and how they can shop in a healthy, yet...
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Specificity of Training in the Water (DVD)
Specificity of Training in the Water presents a detailed overview of how to design an effective water exercise program. An explanation of how to develop a sound exercise progression in both shallow and deep water includes a review of the advantages of water exercise, the properties specific to water exercise, and the application of those...
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Sports Nutrition Essentials (DVD)
In order to get the most out of their exercise and athletic performance endeavors, individuals need to consume a sound diet. Sports Nutrition Essentials details the key elements involved in proper nutrition, including nutrient needs, metabolism basics, and supplement use. The DVD also features nutrition guidelines specific to particular types of...
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Squat Progressions and Overhead Lifts (DVD)
Squat Progressions and Overhead Lifts presents a detailed introduction to the squat progression and comprehensive guidelines on how to teach the squat. Featuring hands-on instruction, the DVD explains and shows the power movements for the overhead lifts, including the military press, the push press, the power jerk, and the snatch-grip, push press...
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Strength Training for Seniors (DVD)
Strength Training for Seniors presents a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and techniques involved in a sound strength training program for older adults. Detailing the numerous benefits that older adults can gain by strength training, the DVD provides step-by-step guidelines for designing a strength training program for seniors. The DVD...
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Styrofoam-Roller Training Progressions (DVD)
Styrofoam-Roller Training Progressions presents a detailed review of how Styrofoamroller exercises can safely and effectively be incorporated into a productive physical training program. Featuring step-by-step instructions for performing self-myofascial release, the DVD explains and demonstrates Styrofoam-roller progressions for developing core...
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Tai-Chi-C! (DVD)
In Tai-Chi-C!, renowned group exercise leader Lawrence Biscontini presents an insightful overview of T'ai Chi - one of the most popular mind-body fitness programs in existence today. In recent years, the popularity of T'ai Chi in the Western fitness community has grown exceptionally. Appropriate for both exercise enthusiasts and fitness...
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Teaching the Olympic Lifts (DVD)
Teaching the Olympic Lifts presents a detailed sequence of exercises and drills for teaching the clean, jerk, and snatch exercises. The DVD features step-wise progressions that offer coaches the capacity to train athletes of various ability levels. Key points for ensuring proper execution of exercises are demonstrated, allowing coaches to...
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The Benefits of Exercise for All Ages Against Osteoporosis (DVD)
The Benefits of Exercise for All Ages Against Osteoporosis provides a basic introduction to the properties of bone and the changes in bone that occur with aging and with osteoporosis. The DVD outlines the role of exercise at various stages of life. In younger women, the emphasis is on preventing bone loss and building bone mass. During midlife,...
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The Importance of Exercise Intensity for Health and for Prescribing Exercise (DVD)
While the frequency and duration of exercise are the same for all persons, exercise intensity is more complex because it can be expressed in absolute terms (METs, Kcal/min) and in relative terms (%VO2 max, % 1RM). Disagreement exists whether exercise intensity should be expressed relative to a maximal value (%VO2 max, %HRmax) or to a submaximal...
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The Influence of Genetics on Exercise and Training (DVD)
Genetic factors influence how people are at the present time and how they respond to external stimuli or changes in their environment (for example, exercise training). The Influence of Genetics on Exercise and Training provides a basic introduction to the field of genetics and how it applies to exercise and training. It summarizes some of the...
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The Tier Strength Training System (DVD)
The Tier Strength Training System presents a detailed visual overview of the principles, fundamentals, and techniques involved in the tier system of the strength training. Designed as a complement to the well-received book, The Coach's Strength Training Playbook, the DVD reviews how the movement/exercise rotation of the tier system should be...
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Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Diet (DVD)
Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Diet discusses easy-to-understand and apply steps that individuals can undertake to improve their diet. The DVD emphasizes the fact that improving the diet is a relatively simple thing to do and that no absolute rules exist for the 'perfect' diet. Featuring one of the most respected nutritionists in the world, the DVD...
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Utilizing Combination Lifts (DVD)
Utilizing Combination Lifts demonstrates and explains the concepts and techniques involved in combination lifting. Featured exercises range from beginner to advanced and are suitable for use in general fitness programs all the way up to advanced athletic conditioning programs. Among the topics covered in the DVD: rationale for the inclusion of...
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Weight Loss for Women (DVD)
Weight loss can be a challenge for both sexes, perhaps even more so for women, given the differences between them and their male counterparts involving hormones, their body composition, dietary choices, and lifestyle. Weight Loss for Women details what factors may affect an individual's efforts to lose weight, what has been shown to work in...
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Weight Training with Non-Traditional Implements to Improve Athletic Performance (DVD)
Weight Training with Non-Traditional Implements to Improve Athletic Performance explains the benefits of using non-traditional implements in the training programs of athletes. In an easy-to-understand format, the DVD discusses and demonstrates how individuals can perform a variety of exercises with tractor tires, water-filled barrels, and logs....
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Yo-Yo Dieting and Disease Risk (DVD)
Weight cycling, commonly referred to as yo-yo dieting, has been rumored to be associated with an inability to lose weight, a reduction in metabolic rate, a loss of muscle mass, and an increased risk for disease. Yo-Yo Dieting and Disease Risk reviews the key elements and concerns involving yo-yo dieting, as well as offering easy-to-apply...
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Using Sports Science as a Coaching Tool (DVD)
Using Sports Science as a Coaching Tool reviews how coaches can benefit from the knowledge and information available in the world of sport science. The DVD details the need for coaches to understand the differences in the approaches to sport and performance by sport scientists and coaches and offers specific suggestions concerning how coaches and...
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