A complete guide to cricket for players and fans alike Whether you’re a budding player or aspiring armchair expert, Cricket For Dummies helps you get to grips with this fascinating sport. Completely revised and updated for the first back-to-back Ashes series in 38 years, this hands-on guide gives you clear explanations of the cricket’s laws, step-by-step explanations …
North America’s Indian peoples have always viewed competitive sport as something more than a pastime. The northeastern Indians’ ball-and-stick game that would become lacrosse served both symbolic and practical functions―preparing young men for war, providing an arena for tribes to strengthen alliances or settle disputes, and reinforcing religious beliefs and cultural cohesion. Today a multimillion-dollar industry, lacrosse is …
Whether it’s your first triathlon or your tenth, this training diary and guide will help you reach your goals Now in its seventh edition, TriLog is the best training diary available for triathletes because of its many features, including: Training Diary The 56-week, undated diary lets you plan and track your training for swimming, …
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse is the most comprehensive and up-to-date lacrosse-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round lacrosse-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you …
Step on the field and begin playing in no time! In Lacrosse Essentials, you’ll learn the fundamentals of the sport through sequential instructions, detailed photo sequences, and expert advice from coaching legend Jack Kaley and longtime coach Rich Donovan. Lacrosse Essentials takes you inside the game, covering these essential skills and …
Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America’s Greatest Marathon
The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. …
The Mental Game of Volleyball is the first sport psychology and peak performance book written specifically for volleyball. Whether you are a court or sand one point warrior this book will help you learn to master the most under addressed part of the game, the mental game. Learn from the top mental game of volleyball coach …
From more powerful attacks to higher block points at the net, you will reach new levels of performance on the court with Complete Conditioning for Volleyball. In this one-of-a-kind video-enhanced resource, University of Illinois volleyball and strength and conditioning coach Steve Oldenburg provides you with access to the elite-level training that …
In tracking, a dog follows the scent left by a person walking through a field and finds one or more articles left along the way. Dogs have amazing scenting ability and love using their nose. As dogs develop their scenting ability and as handlers become adept at following their dog along a track, they join that …