A rerelease of a classic running reference by the late medical editor of Runner's World recounts his transformative midlife return to a fitness-oriented lifestyle and outlines a running-centric program of positive mental and spiritual energy while sharing advice for training, in…
On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history. For her it was the end of a long, winding, and sometimes harrowing road. Nobody was under more pressure at the London Olympics than 'the face of the Games'. Yet Jessi…
Provides advice for instructors charged with teaching track and field to beginners, offering teaching progressions and drills for fourteen track, jumping, and throwing events, and including safety tips, assessment tools, and suggested standards of performance.
Provides advice for instructors charged with teaching track and field to beginners, offering teaching progressions and drills for fourteen track, jumping, and throwing events, and including safety tips, assessment tools, and suggested standards of performance.
Pindar (c. 518-438 BCE), highly esteemed as lyric poet by the ancients, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games, against a backdrop of divine favor, human…
The inspiring true story of Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese "lost boy" who achieved his dream of becoming an American citizen and Olympic athlete. He was abducted. He was beaten. And he was nearly forced to become a boy solider in his war-torn homeland, Sudan. But he escaped in the nig…
After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and W…
by Kluetmeier, Heinz, Santos, Jim, Shannon, Ken
With this book you can harness your abilities to achieve jumping and throwing success!
Scanlon's overview of Greek athletics explores when and how athletics was linked with religion, upbringing, gender, sexuality, and social values in an evolution from Homer until the Roman period.
