| Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
| Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition.
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| Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength
| Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength is a 542 page comprehensive guide to the most overlooked, yet most powerful elements of strength training. In this book, Steven Low takes the reader on a journey through logically and systematically constructing a strength oriented bodyweight workout routine. With a highly systematic and scientific approach, Steven delves into the exercise physiology behind strength training and how to adequately prepare the b...More
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| Shawn Johnson: Gymnastics Golden Girl (GymnStars)
| Shawn Johnson, the young woman from Des Moines, Iowa, captivated the world at the 2008 Beijing Olympics when she snagged a gold medal on the balance beam. Shawn Johnson: Gymnastics' Golden Girl chronicles the life and career of one of sport's most beloved athletes.
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| Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
| The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of Americas elite, competing at prestigious events worldwide alongsi...More
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| Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10
| A short biography of Olympian gold-medalist gymnast Nadia Comaneci. She won three gold medals during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and two gold medals in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
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| Letters to a Young Gymnast
| In Letters to a Young Gymnast, Nadia Comaneci tells how she found the inner strength to become a world-class athlete at such a young age. Now a woman of tremendous poise and self-assurance, she offers unique insights into the mind of a top competitor. From how to live after you’ve realized your dream to the necessity of a spirit forged with mettle,” Comaneci’s thoughts on athleticism and sacrifice are eye-opening.
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| Grinder Strength Pull-Ups
| Have you struggled with getting your first pull-up?Got a few pull-ups but tired of the same old dull workouts?Training for the BUD/S PST and almost have 8 pull-ups to pass the test?Want to see what it’s like to train like a Navy SEAL out on the grinder - mastering the pull-up with ease?The Grinder Strength Pull-up “How to Improve Your Pull-ups” is the E-book for you.Stoked full of how to lessons taking you from zero pullups to mastering the Chest to Bar (C2B workout). - Links to 12 new pu...More
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| Off Balance: A Memoir
| An unflinchingly honest memoir from Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu that reveals the often dark underbelly of Olympic gymnastics as only an insider can—and the secrets she learned about the past that nearly tore apart her family.At fourteen years old, Dominique Moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastic team, the first and only American women’s team to take gold at the Olympics. Her pixie-like appearance, passion for the sport, and ferocious c...More
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| Keep Moving!: It's Aerobic Dance
| This popular text includes plentiful illustrations that help to explain the basic movements of step and floor aerobics. Additionally, the text offers information and suggestions on mastering difficult movements and avoiding incorrect positions and injury. Useful appendices and worksheets help students apply concepts discussed in the text.
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| Chalked Up: My Life in Elite Gymnastics
| Fanciful dreams of gold-medal glory led Jennifer Sey to the local gymnastics club in 1976. A natural aptitude and a willingness to endure punishing hard work took her to the elite ranks by the time she was eleven years old. Jennifer traveled the country and the world competing for the U.S. National team, but the higher she set her sights—the world championships, the 1988 Olympics—the more she began to ignore her physical and mental well-being. Jennifer suffered devastating injuries, develop...More
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| DK Readers: First Day at Gymnastics (Level 1: Beginning to Read)
| DK Readers is a multi-level learning-to-read program combining DK's highly visual style with appealing stories at four graduated levels. Stunning photographs and engaging, age-appropriate stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. DK Readers allow progression from stories for beginning readers with simple sentences and word repetition through to stories with rich vocabulary and more challenging sentence structure for proficient rea...More
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| Landing on My Feet: A Diary of Dreams
| In this fascinating new autobiography, Kerri Strug comes to life as the brave young gymnast who struggled for years in the shadow of flashier athletes, then secured her place in the Olympic pantheon for her brilliant success under fire.
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| Gymnastics
| A comprehensive look at the history of gymnastics and the talented athletes that contributed to its development describes its origins, profiles famous gymnasts, explains how scoring is done, and defines gymnastics terms. Jr Lib Guild.
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| A Gymnastic Riding System Using Mind, Body, and Spirit: Progressive Training for Rider and Horse
| A unique, highly illustrated book that offers training techniques for the mind, body, and spirit of both rider and horse, including a specially designed Pilates program for riders.
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| Unfavorable Odds
| When Kim Hamilton rose to fame, she was anything but a typical world-class gymnast. She wasn't white, she didn't come from a middle-class family, and she was tall for a gymnast. But facing those obstacles was nothing compared to the challenges she faced at home. There, she tumbled in a secret world filled with drugs, violence, and financial strain. She met Unfavorable Odds but found hope by persevering through the pain. Here, Kim shares the techniques she learned to catapult herself from the pas...More
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| Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
| From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Bela Karolyi, "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families. An acclaimed expose that has already helped reform Olympic sports -- now updated to reflect the latest developments in women's gymnastics and figure skating -- it continues to plead for sanity, safety, and an end to our national obsession: winning at an...More
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| Coaching Youth Gymnastics (Coaching Youth Sports)
| Coaching Youth Gymnastics covers all the basics of coaching and gymnastics in a concise style that is customized for entry-level gymnastics coaches. Developed by ASEP in cooperation with USA Gymnastics, this one-of-a-kind book offers a unique blend of general coaching and sport-specific information. The book’s 600-plus photos will help you understand skill technique and decide what skills to teach your athletes. Included are Coaching Tips boxes that highlight key concepts, in add...More
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| How to Create Champions: The Theory and Methodology of Training Top-Class Gymnasts (Gymnastics)
| This book answers in detail the many unanswered questions relating to high performance. Written by the world's leading coach and his scientific advisor it explains in detail the essential components for planning and preparation for high level results. It demonstrates clearly the necessity for a team approach - coach, doctor, masseur, scientists (bio mechanist, psychologist, physiologist, dietician), apparatus manufacturers and engineers, to achieve the ultimate prize, an Olympic gold medal. It i...More
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| Coaching Youth Cheerleading (Coaching Youth Sports Series)
| We've got spirit—how 'bout you? As a newly anointed youth cheerleading coach, you've demonstrated that you have the spirit to coach, but what about the know-how? Even if you were a cheerleader in a previous life, being a cheerleader and coaching a cheer squad are two different things. Not to worry: Coaching Youth Cheerleading will help you sort out the herkies from the handsprings and provide you with the tools and knowledge to run your cheerleading squad with confidence.Written espe...More
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| Suck It Up!: Memoirs of a Gym Mom
| Suck it Up asks the question, why do parents promote childhood sports? It attempts to answer the question, how can parents support athletics without compromising their personal values or standards of behavior? Parents and coaches of children in any competitive sport can identify with this book and use its guidance in raising young athletes. The memoir offers a glimpse inside the world of girls' gymnastics from a mother's perspective, and it includes personal reflection based on research. It e...More
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