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YOUTH PROGRAMMING: FITNESS NEW! Age-specific sport, fitness, and health programs Youth Strength Training guides you in designing efficient, enjoyable programs for kids ages 7 to 10, 11 to 14, and 15 to 18. You will focus first on broadbased, balanced muscle development, and then move into comprehensive, sport-specific strength training programs. In addition, the book provides protocols for warming up and cooling down, procedures for enhancing joint flexibility, and innovative ways to incorporate resistance exercises into sport practice sessions and exercise facilities. It also offers proper exercise technique for 111 resistance exercises using weight stack machines, free weights, medicine balls, elastic bands, and body-weight resistance. Youth Strength Training Avery D. Faigenbaum, EdD, and Wayne L. Westcott, PhD ©2009 • Paperback • 248 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6792-8 • $21.95 ($25.95 CDN) Active games that teach skills and fitness concepts Fun, Fitness, and Skills brings 93 fresh games with countless variations. The games are easy to adjust to all grade and ability levels, and you’ll never run out of fresh ideas for fun and exciting games that teach fitness concepts and skills. The games include warm-ups, fitness and skill games, and tag games. Many of the games can be modified by changing equipment or a few rules. Several games use fantasy, holidays, movies, television shows, or classic games with a twist. Most games are cooperative in nature, but have a low-key competitive element or variation. Fun, Fitness, and Skills: The Powerful Original Games Approach Howie Weiss ©2008 • Paperback • 192 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6829-1 • $20.00 ($23.95 CDN) NEW! Fitness on the Ball: A Core Program for Brain and Body Anne Spalding and Linda E. Kelly, EdD ©2010 • Paperback with CD-ROM • Approx. 272 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6847-5 • $29.00 ($33.95 CDN) Building strength and fitness the fun way Exercise balls have steadily become more popular since they were first introduced because they’re fun and they work! Fitness on the Ball includes over 110 exercises that increase strength, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory fitness. The exercises are easy to follow and well illustrated, making this a practical and user-friendly resource. The book also offers valuable advice on managing your classes and equipment to help you and your participants get the most out of your program. Teach balance and coordination with 73 fun, active games Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games shows you how to get kids bouncing, laughing, moving, and having great fun— all as they improve their fitness skills. Whether you’re using these games in a fitness center, recreation program, or school, they’ll be a hit with kids because the games are a blast—and using nontraditional equipment helps to level the playing field so everyone gets to participate equally. Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games John Byl, PhD ©2008 • Paperback • 152 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7254-0 • $20.00 ($23.95 CDN) Improve kids’ selfawareness and emotional intelligence Through Teaching Yoga for Life: Preparing Children and Teens for Healthy, Balanced Living, you can employ a simple, safe, and pragmatic method for yoga instruction even if you’ve never taught it before. The clear, step-by-step instructions and ample illustrations make it easy for you to present each of the activities, lessons, and 52 poses included in the book, which uses a holistic approach that focuses on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga. Teaching Yoga for Life: Preparing Children and Teens for Healthy, Balanced Living Nanette E. Tummers, EdD View an ©2009 • Paperback • 224 pp excerpt online! ISBN 978-0-7360-7016-4 • $24.00 ($27.95 CDN) Build strength, endurance, and fitness Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to improve children’s overall strength, endurance, and fitness? Look no further than Get Strong 101. This DVD introduces 101 strength and conditioning activities for participants ages 10 to 18. It contains 5-, 10-, and 15-minute workouts for small and large activity spaces, for a total of six sample workouts. What makes Get Strong 101 unique is the combination of expert instruction, innovative activities and games, and enthusiastic presentation. Get Strong 101: 101 Strength and Conditioning Games and Activities Engage Communications, Inc. ©2006 • DVD • 90 minutes ISBN 978-0-7360-6420-0 • $19.95 ($21.95 CDN) View a video clip online! 20 (800) 747-4457 US • (800) 465-7301 CDN • 44 (0) 113-255-5665 UK • (08) 8372-0999 AUS • (09) 448-1207 NZ
NEW! Let’s Play!: Promoting Active Playgrounds Jane Watkinson ©2010 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 120 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7001-0 • $25.00 ($29.95 CDN) Help kids maximize their playground activity time Kids love playground time. But some kids have not developed the skills they need to take part in activities on the playground, and these kids are often left standing alone, watching others play. With Let’s Play!, you can ensure that every child under your care has a repertoire of movement skills to be active on the playground. The book offers simple and effective tips for teaching playground skills and games. It will also help kids make friends on the playground and become active in the social groups that form during free play. 67 games from 38 countries International Games builds players’ physical skills while increasing their cultural awareness, so they focus on the similarities between people no matter where they come from. The games make your teaching simple and effective. Each game is presented in an easy-to-use format and includes interesting information on the origin of the game. Most games require little in the way of equipment or use equipment that can be made for a small cost. International Games will open kids’ eyes to the cultures and traditions of other countries, giving them a greater appreciation for and understanding of the world around them at the same time. International Games: Building Skills Through Multicultural Play Gayle L. Horowitz, MS ©2009 • Paperback • 128 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7394-3 • $19.00 ($21.95 CDN) NEW! Available November 2009 Great Games for Big Activity Balls Todd Strong and Bernie DeKoven ©2009 • Paperback • Approx. 192 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7481-0 • $19.00 ($21.95 CDN) Games for all ages, sizes, and abilities Great Games for Big Activity Balls presents 73 games for big activity balls, with more than 70 variations that have two common themes: fun and physical activity. The games are for people of all ages and all abilities and focus on getting everyone involved and having fun. The book includes cooperative games, adaptations of several popular sports, wacky track and field adaptations, giant carnival games, and water games, as well as modified versions of traditional playground games and Guinness Book of World Records games. Versatile, adaptable team adventures Adventure Racing Activities for Fun and Fitness provides everything you need to prepare for and lead an adventure racing event in any environment. You get complete instructions for setting up an event, forms and checklists to help you organize and conduct an adventure race, and options for customizing the activities to suit your needs. Unlike conventional adventure races that call for mountain bikes, kayaks, and other specialized equipment, this book guides you in setting up races for teams of two, three, or four kids that require no equipment or readily available equipment. You’ll also learn how to set up a race, lay out the course, use obstacles, and assess race results. Adventure Racing Activities for Fun and Fitness Dan DeJager and Cathrine Himberg, PhD ©2008 • Paperback • 136 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6924-3 • $19.00 ($21.95 CDN) YOUTH PROGRAMMING: ACTIVITIES AND GAMES A complete guide to developing and operating climbing walls Climbing Walls is a perfect resource for anyone responsible for supervising an indoor climbing wall. You’ll find information on teaching basic climbing skills and 15 activities and games appropriate for a wide variety of abilities. The book also provides program leaders and administrators with information they can use to advocate for a climbing wall program; current industry standards for designing walls; and practical guidance on cost considerations, administrators’ responsibilities, staff training and supervision, and riskmanagement plans. Climbing Walls: A Complete Guide Jim Stiehl, PhD, and Tim B. Ramsey, MSE ©2005 • Paperback • 184 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-4831-6 • $19.00 ($21.95 CDN) Fun challenges for the body and the mind Traverse wall climbing—in which most of the climbing is done horizontally—is quickly growing in popularity. Yet, specific games and activities for traverse walls have been hard to find—until now. Traversing Walls contains dozens of activities and variations, including well-known games and those that incorporate numbers, letters, math, and words. Some games reinforce health concepts, such as nutrition and the MyPyramid food chart, muscles and exercise, and appropriate health behaviors. All of the activities promote healthy, fun, and productive learning. Traversing Walls: 68 Activities On and Off the Wall Jim Stiehl, PhD, and Dan Chase ©2008 • Paperback • 160 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6777-5 • $19.00 ($21.95 CDN) For more fun and active games, visit www.HumanKinetics.com/ActivitiesandGames 21
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