Este libro se plantea de una manera sencilla con el objetivo de hacerlo asequible a todas aquellas personas que se inician en el estudio y el entrenamiento de resistencia, con un enfoque especial en las edades de iniciación. Puede considerarse un manual básico que, pese a estar fundamentado en conocimientos científicos, se ha tratado de simplificar para acercar estos a aquellas personas que comienzan a interesarse por el estudio y el entrenamiento, sobre todo cuando se refiere a edades escolares (infantiles, preadolescentes y adolescentes). Aunque se abordan todos los aspectos que contempla el entrenamiento de resistencia, se ha tenido presente que esta cualidad interacciona y es influenciada por otras capacidades tales como la fuerza, la velocidad, la flexibilidad, las cualidades coordinativas, etc. Por ello, también son contempladas desde el prisma de esa interacción y su evolución. Igualmente se ocupa de los métodos de entrenamiento con objetivos de resistencia y su influencia en las zonas o áreas funcionales, lo que implica los efectos que pueden producir. Los niños y adolescentes, por sus características particulares debidas a su evolución y desarrollo, requieren un tratamiento especial en cada momento y, por consiguiente, la última parte de la obra se ha dedicado a contemplar esa evolución, los efectos que producen las diferentes cargas y los momentos más adecuados para incidir o evitar ciertos contenidos de entrenamiento.

A growing body of research evidence suggests that physical activity can have a positive effect on educational achievement. This book examines a range of processes associated with physical activity that are of relevance to those working in education – including cognition, learning, memory, attention, mood, stress and mental health symptoms – and draws on the latest insights from exercise neuroscience to help explain the evidence. With contributions from leading scientists and educationalists from around the world, this book cuts through the myths to interrogate the relationship between physical activity and educational achievement in children, adolescents and young adults in a variety of cultural and geographical contexts. Examining both the benefits and risks associated with physical activity from the perspectives of exercise science and educational psychology, it also looks ahead to ask what the limits of this research might be and what effects it might have on the future practice of education. Physical Activity and Educational Achievement: Insights from Exercise Neuroscience is fascinating reading for any student, academic or practitioner with an interest in exercise science and education.

SUPERANNO Leading experts Avery Faigenbaum and Wayne Westcott guide you in developing safe, effective, and enjoyable training programs for ages seven to eighteen. Advice will help kids safely develop a strong musculoskeletal system that can help them improve their health and fitness and also withstand the rigors of sport participation. Includes the most up-to-date information in the areas of nutrition, hydration, and recovery to maximize the effects of strength training and minimize the risks of overtraining. Original.

This book has two major objectives. The first is to propose the Health Resource Allocation Strategy as a social and political process for comparing costs and outcomes of alternative policy options in the health and medical care arena to select interventions with greatest benefit in relation to cost. The second objective is to provide a reference for state-ofthe-art development and application of health status and quality of life measures for health care policy and research, including clinical applications. Not all policy applications of health- related quality of life involve resource allocation. Thus we present guidelines to assessment for use in program evaluation, monitoring of health policy, clinical trials, and health services research.

Endurance in Sport is a comprehensive and authoritative work on all aspects of this major component of sports science. The book also embraces medical and sport-specific issues of particular relevance to those interested in endurance performance. The scientific basis and mechanisms of endurance - physiological, psychological, genetic and environmental - are all considered in depth. Measurement of endurance is extensively reviewed as is preparation and training for physical activities requiring endurance.