Haile Gebrselassie – The Greatest Runner of all Time
by Klaus Weidt

The author of this book has been meeting up with the world’s best marathon runner since 2005, following his world record runs first hand and visiting him several times in Addis Ababa. He has traced his background, traveled the length and breadth of the African highlands, unearthed interesting Ethiopian running stories and with Haile Gebrselassie’s help, got a school project in a remote village off the ground. more

Mental Training for Runners
by Jeff Galloway

This book explains how to improve motivation, why and how you lose motivation and it gives specific tips and methods for staying at your best. Generations of exercisers and athletes have struggled with the motivation to get out the door, to continue on tough days, or to push through the final barrier of discomfort to the long awaited goal. This book describes the source of problems, how to diffuse them, with methods that can keep one motivated. more

Women's Complete Guide to Running
by Barbara and Jeff Galloway

This is the book that will take any woman, at any level of fitness, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered during most training programs. Jeff developed the Run-Walk-Run method of training, and together with his wife Barbara he offers a step by step program specifically designed for the needs and concerns of women. Included are lots of tips on staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching and strengthening, as well as smart nutrition choices, and much more. more

Nancy Clark’s Food Guide for Marathoners
by Nancy Clark

"Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners is perfect for athletes like me, an inexperienced, adult-onset marathoner. Nancy understands that marathoners come in all sizes and shapes. She understands their struggles with managing time, making meals, and choosing healthful foods in fast-food America. Whether this is your first week as a marathoner or you're putting the finishing touches on your training diet, Nancy Clark speaks your language." (John "the Penguin" Bingham, Columnist, Runner's World) more

Fearless Swimming for Triathletes
by Ingrid Loos Miller

Are you afraid of being pummeled by surf, eaten by sharks and bullied by rip currents? Most triathletes learned to swim in a pool, but they have to race in rivers, lakes and oceans. For many the fear of vast open water, crashing surf and sharks, disorientation, seasickness and anxiety can make the triathlon swim the worst part of the day. This guide addresses those concerns in a progression of skills to take the athlete confidently from pool to lake to river to sea. Ultra endurance swimmers share insights for dealing with fears and medical professionals provide sound safety advice for swimming in dirty water. Readers will also learn about screening for preexisting medical conditions that have contributed to triathlon swim deaths. more

Full Contact Karate Training
by Juergen Hoeller and Axel Maluschka

K1, UFC, Kyokushinkai and Muay Thai are enjoying ever increasing popularity. People practicing Martial Arts who want to train and fight in the Full Contact manner will find a systematic guide to the development and long-term build-up of their training. This guidebook provides a concept for Full Contact training and effective self-defense. One can imagine that Full Contact training would be a very hard and demanding martial art form, however, given adequate training, it can be undertaken completely without any danger. more

Kettlebell Conditioning
by Paul Collins

Kettlebell Conditioning helps to steer you through essential foundational exercises, key movement and swing patterns prior to undertaking more complex power drills using both single and double kettlebells. Every good exercise program starts with a method by which training principles are based upon. In Kettlebell Conditioning, Coach Collins has developed the 4-Stage BodyBell® Training System™ that allows you to learn the basic strength and swing pattern drills before more complex power orientated movement patterns. more

Table Tennis – Tips from a World Champion
by Bernd-Ulrich Groß and Werner Schlager

"Table Tennis – Tips from a World Champion" is a practical training book for successful table tennis. The aim is not to copy Werner Schlager as a player but to use his tips to find your own way to use them successfully. Numerous picture series explain technique and tactic. This book is meant to encourage individuality in technique and game. All in all this is a “different” table tennis teaching book for players and coaches who are keen to progress further. more

The Ultimate Parkour & Freerunning Book
by Jan Witfeld, Ilona E. Gerling and Alex Pach

The increasing number of followers of the two movement cultures, Parkour and Freerunning, has given rise to the need for safe, methodical orientation, which the reader will find in this book. Parkour, a new movement culture from France, is all about moving as efficiently as possible between points A and B by sprinting fluently over obstacles. The sport of Freerunning has developed from it, involving developing and showing off the most creative, extreme, flowing, acrobatic moves possible on obstacles. more

Contemporary Issues in Physical Education
by Ken Hardman and Ken Green

The book provides an insight into the current situation of PE in schools across Europe as a forerunner to addressing PE-related existing and emerging issues in various contexts. It is aimed, primarily, at students pursuing entire programmes or discrete courses and modules in the broad area of PE and related areas such as health and exercise science. more