Human Kinetics Continuing Education

Rocket® Yoga: Your Guide to Progressive Ashtanga Vinyasa presents the beauty and benefits of Rocket yoga—from its history and philosophy to the sequences and practices unique to its style. This modern style of yoga is rooted in traditional ashtanga but allows for more freedom of movement based on individual anatomy and fosters empowerment through creativity, endurance, and rhythm.
The benefits of practicing Rocket yoga are as diverse and numerous as the poses. The poses work on every part of the body, making Rocket yoga ideal for relieving stress; building strength, balance, and flexibility; and stimulating increased consciousness.

Stretching Anatomy is your go-to guide for seeing inside the stretches that help clients improve range of motion, enhance recovery, and facilitate ease of movement during physical and everyday activities.
Introduced in this fourth edition, the Beyond Flexibility chapter explains how stretching can increase force output, improve muscular hypertrophy, prevent and rehabilitate injuries, stimulate cardiorespiratory improvements, and lower blood glucose levels. Each scenario includes a targeted stretch sequence to address these client goals.

Smarter Recovery delivers evidence-based information and practical advice to effectively integrate recovery into program design for each of your clients and athletes Cut through the hype to learn how to maximize recovery, helping your clients feel their best and reap the full benefits of each training session. With 58 exercises and stretches for recovery and mobility, Smarter Recovery breaks down the most effective tools, techniques, and methods.

Timing Resistance Training teaches you how to work with athletes to manipulate their internal muscle clocks so they can train and perform at their best every day—right down to the specific time of day that is best for their body. Learn how to cue those internal clocks with purposeful training methods like biomechanical pairing of exercises, complex training, and concurrent training. The book addresses rest as an integral training variable and explores the timing of activity–rest cycles versus recuperation only.

Before athletes can become strong and powerful, they need to master the movement skills required in sport. Athletic Movement Skills: Training for Sports Performance sets a new standard for athletic assessment and development. This authoritative work presents proven protocols for evaluating, correcting, training, and translating athletic movement to athletic dominance.
Beginning with foundational elements such as observing, analyzing, and improving postural control to develop more resilient athletes, this course presents a progressive structure for creating a movement program to accelerate the development of multidirectional speed, power, and functional strength.

Help your athletes gain a competitive edge with the innovative training methods in Pilates and Conditioning for Athletes. This science-based, multidimensional approach to athletic conditioning helps build a strong and flexible foundation by infusing Pilates into training, resulting in complete training programs that tap into the seven pillars of training needed for success.
You’ll find detailed instructions for 124 Pilates mat and traditional conditioning exercises to strengthen the core, improve posture, increase flexibility, and correct muscle imbalances. The included exercises—combined with 19 foundational, intermediate, and sport-specific sample workouts—offer guidance for developing thousands of programs designed to help your athletes become stronger, faster, healthier, and better-equipped to achieve their performance goals.

Science and Practice of Strength Training shows that there is no single program that works for everyone, at all times and in all conditions. It addresses the complexity of strength training programs while providing straightforward approaches to take under specific circumstances. Those approaches are backed with physiological concepts, ensuring you gain a full understanding of the science behind the practice of strength training.