Around the Buoys

Around the Buoys
Author: Michael Huck
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780070308176

Presents a guide for beginning and intermediate racers who are mired in the bottom or middle of the fleet. With the help of numerous diagrams, readers learn to recognize when they are threatened on the race course and when they must move to realize a potential advantage.

H.O. Pub

H.O. Pub
Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1920
Genre:
ISBN:

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1982
Genre: Administrative law
ISBN:

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Handbook

Handbook
Author: Hull Yacht Club
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1891
Genre:
ISBN:

Women's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Women's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
Author: Nadya Swedan
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0834217317

This book is a comprehensive interdisciplinary reference for women's sports medicine. It avoids a medical bias and instead focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and wellness. It provides an introduction to women's sport participation, discusses athletic women across the life span, details injury management issues by anatomical region, and emphasizes the importance of health and wellness. Women's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation is full of original research, epidemiological and physiological information, differential diagnoses, treatment algorithms, practical and effective rehabilitation techniques, and case studies. This resource is a must-have for all health care professionals involved in the assessment and treatment of athletic injuries in women.

Open Water Swimming

Open Water Swimming
Author: Emma Davis
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-11-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1847976107

Open Water Swimming: A Complete Guide for Swimmers and Triathletes is aimed at all levels of open water swimmer, from beginners right through to competing professionals. It covers all aspects of the sport: its history and health benefits; a thorough introduction to getting started; a full discussion on training equipment and how it should be used; the safety and legal aspects of choosing a suitable location for swimming; acclimatization for both the beginner and the experienced swimmer. The author then goes on to explain in detail all technical aspects of open water swimming; sighting; drafting; turning around buoys; entraces, exits and transitions. Topics covered include: the importance of nutrition - for training, competition and improving recovery - and injury prevention and rehab, including a programme for core stability and stretching. The only open water swimming guide to be written by a professional athlete and Olympian. Basic training programmes for Triathlon 750m and 1500m distances, Ironman events and 10km and channel swimming. Superbly illustrated with 75 colour photographs.