Learning Sports

Skateboarding is a time old tradition that has survived multiple generations. Today, professional skateboard competitions are at an all-time high. This popular activity is one that is enjoyed by adults and children for many years. To master skateboarding, one must know the proper technique of balance, control, and mind-set. This audiobook explains all these important techniques and gives you in-depth knowledge of how the sport started and grown to its popularity.

Each and every poker player featured in The Pursuit of Poker Success has taken his or her own route to becoming one of the world's best players. The players interviewed for this audiobook include World Series of Poker bracelet winners, World Poker Tour champions, online poker wizards, and some of the best cash game players on the planet. Bradley spoke to each player about the way in which he or she found success in a game that can be humbling for so many. What worked for them can work for you.

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read and study for the NASM CPT Exam! However, the truth is that the NASM exam is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked!

Writer, activist, and actor Charles Grodin delivers a fascinating collection of more than eighty intimate and revealing stories from friends and colleagues in the worlds of entertainment, sports, journalism, politics, and business-inspiring, entertaining, and heartfelt accounts of mistakes...

This is a summary of Tim S. Grover's Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (2013), which teaches how to cultivate the mindset of an elite achiever. Grover’s ideas about high performance are based on his decades as a trainer for elite athletes including NBA stars Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Dwyane Wade. Bryant, Jordan, and Wade followed Grover’s no-nonsense training program.

Golf is a game that is enjoyed by millions of people worldwide. The attraction of being outdoors and testing your skills against the elements, as well as an opponent, are all part of the draw. But just walking out onto a course and swinging your new clubs wouldn’t be possible without learning something about the game beforehand.

Having a fitness trainer is in high demand now. As a result, many fitness trainers can make a honest living, whether they work as a freelance trainer or work as personal fitness trainers. So, if you are a fitness trainer, have you thought about making your fitness training job into a high-earning job? As a fitness trainer, it is not hard to find people who need your services. As a legally recognized profession, you can get a certification that can boost your career. This book prepares you for the hurdles to achieving that needed certification.

In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts.

Cobey Green hat ein Problem: Nach einem Jahr voller Partys droht ihm der Rausschmiss aus dem Football-Team. Der Plan? Ins Wohnheim ziehen, einen Nachhilfelehrer finden und seine Noten retten. Vincent Brandt liebt Wissen und Lernen, aber Cobey Green stellt ihn vor eine steile Lernkurve – nicht nur in Sachen Nachhilfe.

Is there a secret to winning all the time?What is the Stuff Champions are made of?What gives victorious teams that edge?Six years after sports commentator and writer Harsha Bhogle and advertising and communication consultant Anita Bhogle (both IIM-A alumni) first explored these questions and...

Multiplication and division are critical skills to master for all children. You want your child to be at the top of their class, not getting stressed with bad math test results! But don’t worry, help is at hand. We want all our children to feel happy and confident in school and in their own knowledge, and that’s why we created this series of fun math game audiobooks.

Guy Windsor’s historical martial arts training manuals are legendary. His first was published in 2004, and he’s been producing them ever since. They generate about half his income. So he is expert in writing, publishing, and marketing books for historical martial artists, and in this book he’ll teach you how to do it. The goal of training manuals is to teach skills.

Danielle "Dani" Constantine is a plus-size, pear-shaped girl. She's socially awkward and doesn't like big crowds. Dani has been a good girl her entire life. She plays by the rules and never gets into trouble. She's content living life in the shadows, or so she thought...

Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated.

Antworten auf alle Fragen des SRC-Prüfungsstoffs sind klar. aber das Übersetzen der 27 Funksprüche bereitet Ihnen Sorgen? Genau hier setzt mein Kurs an und hilft Ihnen weiter. Sicher im Stoff werden Sie mit Vokabeltraining inklusive Aussprachehinweisen für die Vokabeln der 27 Funksprüche. Effizient unterstützen Sie Audiodateien von Anfang an. Assistenz und Unterstützung auf dem Weg zur erfolgreichen praktischen Prüfung für das Short Range Certificate SRC liefert dieses Hörbuch. In der theoretischen Prüfung wird Ihnen einer der englischen Texte diktiert.

Are you a middle or high school student who dreams of riding at the college level one day? Written with insider knowledge of both the college admission process and the strategies employed by top coaches when assembling their teams each season, the goal of this audiobook is to help you understand not only how many options riders have after high school, but also how to choose the opportunities that are the best fit for your educational future.

In the spring of 2013, a study showed that despite huge economic problems, 27 states were awarding their highest salaries to college football coaches. College football has doubled in size in the last decade thanks to generous tax breaks, lavish TV deals, and corporate sponsors eager to slap their logos on everything from scoreboards to footballs and uniforms. In one recent year, the 10 biggest programs took in $800 million from football, with profit margins far surpassing those of Fortune 500 companies.

In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with huge numbers of people all focused on the same thing at the same moment. That timeless, live quality makes sports very powerful, and very lucrative. And the media spectacle around them is only getting bigger, brighter, and noisier.

John Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today's cloistered stars won't share with them. The result is an audiobook guaranteed to stir memories for the generation that was - and to leave subsequent generations wishing they had it so good.

From her first strokes as a novice, Ginny Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Short, asthmatic, and stubborn, Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: how badly do you want to go fast?