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Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practical Drills

by Rory Miller

The speed and brutality of a predatory attack can shock even an experienced martial artist. The sudden chaos, the cascade of stress hormones--you feel as though time slows down. In reality, the assault is over in an instant. How does anyone prepare for that?As a former corrections sergeant and tactical team leader, Rory Miller is a proven survivor. He instructs police and corrections professionals who, in many cases, receive only eight hours of defensive tactics training each year. They need techniques that work and they need unflinching courage.In Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practical Drills Miller gives you the tools to prepare and prevail, both physically and psychologically. He shares hard-won lessons from a world most of us hope we never experience.* Train in fundamentals, combat drills, and dynamic fighting.* Develop situational awareness.* Condition yourself through stress inoculation.* Take a critical look at your training habits."You don't get to pick where fights go," Miller writes. That's why he has created a series of drills to train you for the worst of it. You will defend yourself on your feet, on the ground, against weapons, in a crowd, and while blindfolded. You will reevaluate your training scenarios--keeping what works, discarding what does not, and improving your chances of survival.Miller's "internal work," "world work," and "plastic mind" exercises will challenge you in ways that mere physical training does not. Sections include* Stalking* Escape and evasion* The predator mind* Personal threat assessmentThis is a fight for your life, and it won't happen on a nice soft mat. It will get, as Miller says, "all kinds of messy." Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practical Drills prepares you for that mess.

Training for the New Alpinism

by Steve House Scott Johnston Mark Twight

In Training for the New Alpinism, Steve House, world-class climber and Patagonia ambassador, and Scott Johnston, coach of U.S. National Champions and World Cup Nordic Skiers, translate training theory into practice to allow you to coach yourself to any mountaineering goal. Applying training practices from other endurance sports, House and Johnston demonstrate that following a carefully designed regimen is as effective for alpinism as it is for any other endurance sport and leads to better performance. They deliver detailed instruction on how to plan and execute training tailored to your individual circumstances. Whether you work as a banker or a mountain guide, live in the city or the country, are an ice climber, a mountaineer heading to Denali, or a veteran of 8,000-meter peaks, your understanding of how to achieve your goals grows exponentially as you work with this book. Chapters cover endurance and strength training theory and methodology, application and planning, nutrition, altitude, mental fitness, and assessing your goals and your strengths. Chapters are augmented with inspiring essays by world-renowned climbers, including Ueli Steck, Mark Twight, Peter Habeler, Voytek Kurtyka, and Will Gadd. Filled with photos, graphs, and illustrations.

Training for Warriors: The Ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Workout

by Martin Rooney

To be a warrior, you must train like a warriorDiscover the training secrets that have produced World Champions in MMA, Submission Grappling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Judo. More than 750 color photos will show you how to perform hundreds of exercises designed to specifically target each area of your body. You'll also learn:Nutrition and safe weight-cutting tipsInformation on dealing with injuriesAdvice on the warrior mind and mental gameThe ultimate 8-week warrior workout planWhether you are a fighter or just want to look like one, Training for Warriors is a proven, comprehensive system to get you fit for whatever battle life throws at you.

Training in Sachen Liebe

by Christina Löw und Eva Markert Catherine Gayle

Der Mannschaftskapitän von Portland Storm, Eric "Zee" Zellinger, weiß für gewöhnlich, was zu tun ist. Aber sein einstiges Elite-Team zum Sieg zu führen, wird schnell ein aussichtslos erscheinender Kampf. Er darf seine Konzentration jetzt nicht verlieren - nicht wenn seine Karriere auf dem Spiel steht. Doch als die kleine Schwester seines besten Freundes eine Bitte an ihn heranträgt, die er ihr nicht abschlagen kann, besteht die Gefahr, dass Eric den Antrieb verliert, den sein Team von ihm als Captain braucht. Seit einem einschneidenden Erlebnis in ihrer College-Zeit befindet sich Dana Campbells Leben in einer Abwärtsspirale. Sie versucht verzweifelt, dem Horror dieser schicksalsträchtigen Nacht zu entkommen, und ist bereit, alles dafür zu tun. Selbst wenn das bedeutet, den einzigen Mann, dem sie vertraut, um Hilfe zu bitten. Egal, wie unwiderstehlich sie ist oder wie sehr ihn ihre Bitte in Versuchung führt, kann Eric diese Grenze möglicherweise nicht überschreiten - vor allem nicht, solange sein Team darum kämpft, die Play-offs zu erreichen. Nun muss Eric eine letzte Entscheidung treffen. Doch wird er Dana die Chance geben, aus ihrer Abwärtsspirale auszubrechen und ein glückliches Leben zu führen, oder wird er sich bemühen, seine Karriere weiter voranzutreiben?

Training Load in Professional Soccer: Guide to Monitoring Performance

by José M. Oliva Lozano Luca P. Ardigò

This concise yet comprehensive book bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering a sound understanding of training load and its impact on performance and injury prevention.In the opening part it equips the reader with a clear definition of training load as well as evidence-based methods and parameters for its monitoring, including advanced technologies like wearable sensors and tracking systems. It further explores the critical role of training load in preparing athletes for peak performance and managing the overall training process. Specifically tailored to football, the authors analyze the challenges of monitoring training load in team sports and highlight the importance of accurate management for optimal adaptation and fatigue reduction. They further analyze the relationship between training load and injury risk as well as the role of its monitoring in mitigating injury risks. Additional chapters delve into topics such as fatigue in soccer, return-to-play decision-making, manipulating training load within a seasonal schedule, and building a comprehensive monitoring system.With each chapter written by leading experts in the field, this book is a must-have resource for sport scientists, coaches and players seeking evidence-based strategies to optimize performance and minimize injuries in the dynamic world of soccer.

Training the Body: Perspectives from Religion, Physical Culture and Sport (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

by David Torevell Clive Palmer Paul Rowan

This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise. The book presents a series of fascinating thematic and case-study led chapters from around the world, examining topics including the martial discipline and symbolism of artistic gymnastics; religious interpretations of body vulnerability in the context of marathons; the religious language of corporeal training in sport; and martial arts. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, from sport, religion, history and philosophy, the book also explores the often contested and sometimes over-zealous application of training in both sport and religion, and the ways in which this can cause harm to athletes or adherents. This is fascinating reading for any advanced student or researcher with an interest in the body, physical cultural studies, the ethics and philosophy of sport, the sociology of sport, religious studies, Asian studies, or philosophy.

Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook

by Thomas Cleary

Through the ages, the samurai have been associated with honor, fearlessness, calm, decisive action, strategic thinking, and martial prowess. Their ethos is known as bushido, the Way of the Warrior-Knight.Here, premier translator Thomas Cleary presents a rich collection of writings on bushido by warriors, scholars, political advisors, and educators from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth century that provide a comprehensive, historically rich view of samurai life and philosophy. Training the Samurai Mind gives an insider's view of the samurai world: the moral and psychological development of the warrior, the ethical standards they were meant to uphold, their training in both martial arts and strategy, and the enormous role that the traditions of Shintoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism had in influencing samurai ideals. The writings deal with a broad range of subjects--from military strategy and political science, to personal discipline and character development. Cleary introduces each piece, putting it into historical context, and presents biographical information about the authors. This is an essential read for anyone interested in military history and samurai history, and for martial artists who want to understand strategy.

Training Thoroughbred Horses

by Preston M. Burch

Preston M. Burch, considered one of America's most distinguished horsemen, summarizes his observations in this book in logical progression, for the benefit of both the novice horseman and the experienced professional.His approach to training Thoroughbreds is eminently practical, and readers will gain a new appreciation of the many details of racing stable operation.Training Thoroughbred Horses includes chapters on:The Selection of Racing MaterialBreaking YearlingsTraining 2-Year-OldsTraining 3-Year-Olds and Older HorsesThe Condition BookStable ManagementFeedingand many other aspects of the operation of a racing stable.

Trainingskonzeption für Patienten mit Rückenschmerz: PhysioNovo - Angewandte Rehabilitation und Sporttherapie

by Paul Geraedts

Dieses Praxisbuch liefert alles Wesentliche für Befund, Differenzialdiagnostik, Prävention und motorische Behandlung in Physiotherapie, Sporttherapie und Rehabilitation bei Patienten mit Rückenschmerzen. Wie behandele ich idealerweise eine Skapuladyskinesie in Zusammenhang mit Nacken- oder Schulterschmerzen? Welchen Einfluss hat das Hüftgelenk als motorisches Zentrum auf das Iliosakralgelenk? Wie hängen paradoxe Anspannungsmuster der Bauchmuskulatur mit der Arm- und Beinmotorik zusammen? Der Experte liefert in diesem Buch die Antworten!Aus dem Inhalt:• Artikuläre (Nozi-)Sensorik und motorische Steuerung bei Rückenschmerzen• Radiologische und klinisch-motorische Diagnostik• Integrale Schulter-, Hüft- und Rumpfmotorik sowie Lokomotorik• Regionale Interdependenzen wie z. B. das Hip-Spine-Syndrom und die Korrelation Hüfte-BeckenbodenPlus: Über 50 Videos zu den einzelnen Übungen via Springer Nature More Media-App.Verstehen Sie Gelenk- und Muskelfunktionen bei Rückenschmerzen und tragen Sie mit den richtigen Übungen zur Schmerzreduktion und Verbesserung der Lebensqualität Ihrer Patienten bei.

Trainingswissenschaft für die Sportpraxis: Lehrbuch für Studium, Ausbildung und Unterricht im Sport

by Alexander Ferrauti

Dieses motivierende und reichhaltig illustrierte Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studierende im Fach Sportwissenschaft sowie an Trainer, Auszubildende und Schüler in sport- und fitnessbezogenen Berufen und dient diesen als ideale Prüfungsvorbereitung. Es ist besonders geeignet als Begleit- und Vertiefungslektüre für Vorlesungen im Fach Trainingswissenschaft.Trainingswissenschaftliche Themen werden anschaulich, gut verständlich und praxisrelevant dargestellt. Auch interessierte Leistungs- und Freizeitsportlerinnen und -sportler erhalten eine ausgewogene Mischung von evidenzbasierten sportwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und praktischen Trainingstipps.Wertvolle Hinweise zu den Bereichen Leistungsdiagnostik, Trainingssteuerung, Monitoring und Wettkampfanalyse bilden das Rückgrat des Buches. Das Grundlagenwissen zum Kraft-, Schnelligkeits-, Beweglichkeits-, Ausdauer- und Techniktraining wird durch angemessene biologische Vertiefungen und durch Exkurse zu modernen Trainingsinterventionen erweitert. Dem klaren Plädoyer für Individualisierung und Sportartspezifität des Trainings wurde durch gesonderte Kapitel zu ausgewählten Sportarten Rechnung getragen. Neben dem Leistungssport, stehen auch die Besonderheiten des Trainings mit Kindern und Jugendlichen, mit Aktiven im mittleren Lebensalter oder mit älteren Masterathletinnen und -athleten im Fokus. Das Buch wagt den Spagat zwischen einer international ausgerichteten forschungsorientierten Trainingswissenschaft und der unweigerlich damit verknüpften Sportpraxis. Abgerundet wird das didaktische Konzept durch interaktives Zusatzmaterial in Form von Videobeispielen, die einfach mit der Springer Nature More Media App abgerufen werden können.

Transformation of American Capitalism

by John R. Munkirs

Do Americans live in a planned economy? Most of us would say no. John Munkirs. however, argues that the American economy has “centralized private sector planning.” Assessing 138 major industries and 5 major market areas, the author shows how firms in a given industry are technologically, financially, and administratively interdependent. He then demonstrates how industries are both structurally and functionally interdependent and how a series of economic planning instruments evolved over the years that both allow and may even necessitate regional, national, and international private sector planning.

The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules (Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business)

by M. Milne

The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules examines how developments in technology, broadcasting rights and regulation combine to determine what sport we see on television, where we can see it and what the final output looks and sounds like.

The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules (Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business)

by Mike Milne

The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules examines how developments in technology, broadcasting rights and regulation combine to determine what sport we see on television, where we can see it and what the final output looks and sounds like.

Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

by Thomas F. Carter Daniel Burdsey Mark Doidge

Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to merely advocate for change. Rather, they insist that scholars need to take an active political stance when conducting research with the explicit purpose of attempting to transform the practices, structures, and the ways in which knowledge is produced about sport. By exposing and challenging the power relations which perpetuate discrimination and inequality within sport, it becomes possible to catalyse wider societal changes. Drawing on a diversity of topics including sport for development and peace, transnational feminism, disability sport, refugees and football activism, FIFA, the Olympics, sports journalism and digital sports media, this book makes a case for sport sociology as an agent of positive change in the hierarchies and institutional structures of contemporary sport. Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures provides valuable insights for all students and scholars interested in the sociology of sport and its transformative potential.

Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide for Survivors, Therapists, and Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners to Facilitate Embodied Recovery

by Jamie Marich Anna Pirkl

Heal from trauma and PTSD with the martial art of jiu-jitsu--written for survivors, mental health therapists, and trauma-informed martial arts instructors.This groundbreaking book introduces jiu-jitsu as a powerful embodied modality for trauma survivors in recovery, and includes 10 grounding practices, self-defense techniques, and 30 instructional photos. Unhealed trauma--from &“little t&” traumas to complex PTSD--leaves a lasting imprint on the bodies and minds of survivors. And in the aftermath of trauma, many people experience shifts in how they feel, connect with others, and interact with the world at large. This embodied, whole-person approach will help you heal the wounds of traumatic stress and how it shows up within yourself and your relationships, from disembodiment and numbness to anger, fear, anxiety, confusion, and dissociation.As part of a martial arts trauma recovery program, you&’ll learn about: • Trauma, embodiment, and the transformative power of jiu-jitsu • Self-defense skills that can help survivors of violence define boundaries and feel safe, secure, powerful, and at home in their bodies • Creating a welcoming, responsive practice space as a studio owner • Integrating jiu-jitsu practice into a safe, accessible recovery protocol for survivors--and how therapists can recommend them to clients or build them into a treatment plan Written for trauma survivors, mental health clinicians, and martial arts practitioners and studio owners who want to create a safe, empowering, and trauma-sensitive space, Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu is a unique and vital guide to healing trauma&’s invisible wounds.

Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport: A Trans Feminist Approach to Improving Inclusion (Gender and Sexualities in Psychology)

by Abby Barras

This formative work discusses transgender people’s inclusion in everyday sport in the United Kingdom. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal issues regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people.Offering a critical perspective on the current landscape surrounding this topic, the book draws from insightful interviews conducted by the author with 18 transgender and non-binary individuals. The author uses a critical social science approach to explore the heteropatriarchal construction of sport in the modern industrialised West, and how this has formed the backdrop to the continuing discrimination towards many athletes, not just those who are transgender. Using first-hand perspectives, it focuses on the three themes of the sporting body, sporting spaces and sporting communities. It investigates why conversations about fairness and safety regarding transgender athletes have become so polarised within the media, and the significance of taking a trans feminist approach to reducing barriers in sport. Lastly, the book’s key findings initiate a dialogue on the importance of gender affirmation in sport, the value of supportive teammates/role models and how sporting spaces can be reimagined to promote greater inclusion for all.Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport is a crucial resource for researchers, academics, and students in the field of social science, sports organisations, policy makers, third-sector organisations, activists and other related disciplines. The book will also be a compelling read for anyone with an interest in improving inclusion for transgender and non-binary people in everyday sport and wants to learn more about how trans feminism can achieve this.

Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

by Eric Anderson Ann Travers

While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture’s binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics.

Transient Moon (Lotte Freundenberger Series #3)

by Gaja J. Kos

Off the court, the stakes are higher than just a lost matchIsa Vogt is convinced Lotte would make a great agent. But after spending three months cooped up at the ICRA facility, probed and prodded for any genetic changes, tying herself to them willingly is the last thing Lotte wants.She has the Zentrum. Afanasiy. Her friends. There’s nothing that could convince her to sign away the freedom she has lost one too many times already.Until a brutal beating leaves her former lover on the verge of death.Lotte is incapable of waiting idly on the sidelines while the bastard responsible walks free. But if she strikes a deal with Isa Vogt to join the investigation, she will embark on a path she can’t come back from.Is seeking justice for a ruined life worth ripping apart her own?Join Lotte as she makes a monumental choice by purchasing a copy of TRANSIENT MOON today!

Translational Informatics: Sports and Exercise Medicine (Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology Ser. #1005)

by Bairong Shen

The book provides readers the informatics and data-driven models for the discovery of personalized excise prescriptions applied to different cases. Overdiagnosis or over-treatment often happened since the complex interaction among the lifestyle, genetic, and environmental factors. Sports and exercise are reported efficient to prevent or reduce the risk of diseases, but the interactions between sports/exercise and disease are personalized and complex. Translational informatics is a powerful paradigm and it promotes the transfer of big data, knowledge and models to the precision application of sports to prevent diseases. Sports and exercise may have different effects on diverse diseases including cancers, neurodegenerative disease, and cardiovascular diseases, etc. This book covers many modern informatics models such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, blockchain, participatory medicine, semantic artificial intelligence, big data modeling, and so on. It also describes the challenges for the sports and exercise medical data sharing and standardization, the privacy protection of data as well as the integration of data from genomic level to physiological phenotype level. This book will be helpful to the readers who are interesting in sports and exercise medicine, healthcare, big data modeling, artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare.

Transnational and Comparative Research in Sport: Globalisation, Governance and Sport Policy

by Ian Henry the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy

The wider adoption of a post-modern understanding of truth and knowledge, an acceptance of the prevalence of Orientalism inherent in much Western research, and the diminished significance of the ‘local’ within the rhetoric of globalization have all combined to constrain comparative and transnational research under the weight of theoretical and methodological concerns. Transnational and Comparative Research in Sport addresses these difficulties in the context of sport studies, with the aim of developing typology which can be adopted to help re-establish meaningful transnational and comparative research. The book covers theoretical and substantive contexts and introduces a four-fold typology of approaches to comparative research, each supported by case studies and full discussion. .

Transnational Flamenco: Exchange and the Individual in British and Spanish Flamenco Culture (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)

by Tenley Martin

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene. Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural transmission. This concept, referred to as ‘cosmopolitan human hubs’, builds on Kiwan and Meinhof’s ‘hubs’ theory of network migration to move cultural migration and globalisation studies forwards. Martin outlines a post-globalisation flamenco culture through analysis of ethnographic research carried out in the UK, Sevilla and Madrid. Insight into these glocal scenes characterises flamenco as a historically globalized art complex, represented in various hubs around the world. This alternative approach to music migration and globalisation studies will be of interest to students and scholars across leisure studies, musicology, sociology and anthropology.

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

by Holly Thorpe

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea

by Rachael Miyung Joo

Based on ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles, Transnational Sport tells how sports shape experiences of global Koreanness, and how those experiences are affected by national cultures. Rachael Miyung Joo focuses on superstar Korean athletes and sporting events produced for transnational media consumption. She explains how Korean athletes who achieve success on the world stage represent a powerful, globalized Korea for Koreans within the country and those in the diaspora. Celebrity Korean women athletes are highly visible in the Ladies Professional Golf Association. In the media, these young golfers are represented as daughters to be protected within the patriarchal Korean family and as hypersexualized Asian women with commercial appeal. Meanwhile, the hard-muscled bodies of male athletes, such as Korean baseball and soccer players, symbolize Korean masculine dominance in the global capitalist arena. Turning from particular athletes to a mega-event, Joo discusses the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan, a watershed moment in recent Korean history. New ideas of global Koreanness coalesced around this momentous event. Women and youth assumed newly prominent roles in Korean culture, and, Joo suggests, new models of public culture emerged as thousands of individuals were joined by a shared purpose.

Transpacific Field of Dreams

by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese warships fielded teams that played against American teams, and a Negro League team arranged tours to Japan. By the 1930s, professional baseball was organized in Japan where it continued to be played during and after World War II; it was even played in Japanese American internment camps in the United States during the war.From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history, Transpacific Field of Dreams shines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants.

Transport and Safety: Systems, Approaches, and Implementation (Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering)

by Geetam Tiwari Dinesh Mohan

This volume addresses a variety of issues on traffic safety policy, ranging from issues of climate change, urban equity, and transport safety, in a broad global and societal context, while retaining situation-specific details. Written by international experts on issues of transportation and traffic safety, it will be of special interest to advanced researchers in the engineering and planning disciplines working on these issues as well as policy makers concerned with setting up institutions and legislations for traffic safety.

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