Human Kinetics – New releases for strength success

APRIL 2012 Rewards Program Football Store Football Brochure Newsletters Coaching Education   In the Spotlight:     Become a perennial all-pro with new iPad-compatible book Conditioning for Football, iPad Version with Video features a comprehensive training approach that builds players’ abilities as well as the football-specific skills their positions require. In this iPad compatible, enhanced e-book, authors Pat Ivey and Josh Stoner explain and demonstrate the very same exercises and drills they use to develop speed, power, strength, and agility with the game’s premier collegiate and professional players. Find out more. Get in top-shape with the 60 exercises, 19 stretches, and 9 programs featured in new release     The Strength Training Anatomy Workout II is your guide to serious muscle development. Inside you’ll learn the best exercises for building up and strengthening each muscle; how to determine weights, repetitions, and frequency; and strategies for accelerating recovery. Over 1,200 full-color photos and 160 full-color illustrations allow you to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results. Find out more.     Top resources for football coaches                 Sideline Tackling Drill     View a drill from Football Skills & Drills Purpose: To give all players practice making sideline tackles. This is a good drill for punters and kickoff men. Procedure: The ball carrier and the tackler begin 7 yards apart. The tackler is even with the coach 7 yards from the sideline. The ball carrier is 4 yards from the boundary (figure 1.4). Both players face the coach. The coach begins the drill by tossing the ball to the ball carrier. When he catches the ball, the ball carrier turns and faces up the field. Continue drill.     Participate in Sports Jobs 101 course with HK author Rick Horrow     This 8-week online sports job training course, offered through Sports Management Worldwide, will introduce students to the challenges and excitement of every sports career path around the globe. By exploring the many career options in sports business through a variety of learning experiences, participants will finish the course with a personalized game plan of success for a career in the fast growing sports industry. During this 8-week course, students have the opportunity to participate in weekly interactive audio chats with fellow students; course instructor, Dr. Lynn Lashbrook, and guest speaker, Rick Horrow, author of Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider’s Guide to the Business of Sport. Transferable college credit is also available for a nominal fee. Learn more about the course.     Stay connected with HK Subscribe, unsubscribe, or customize your email preferences, here. Human Kinetics | 1607 N. Market St. | Champaign | IL | 61820