Sport

Useful for anyone pursuing boxing as a hobby or who is interested in training to become a professional boxer. This book presents an introduction to the sport, including the game's history, rules of the ring, how fights are scored, how to spar, the basics of defence and offence, the fighter's workout, a directory of boxing gyms, and more.

This is a guide to power yoga - one of the fastest growing mind and body fitness trends by the world's foremost instructors of Ashtanga. They provide 30, 60 and 90 minute customized power workouts to promote flexibility, strength and endurance.

Including GPS Waypoint lists and a Place Name Index, this 160-page colour book contains walking routes within the Lake District South region. Wire-O spiral binding allows it to lay flat and be folded back on itself without damage. It features: route summary of exertion rating; refreshments rating; time, distance, ascents/descents; and more.

An in-depth guide to muscle training offers a complete six-month course in the style of Arthur Jones, the famous inventor of the Nautilus exercise equipment, providing the fastest, safest way to build muscle, steroid-free.

Thank God for Football traced the Christian origins of some famous clubs. This illustrated companion features a substantial number of images of founders, founding churches, early teams. It also includes images reflecting the impact of the original book. A limited amount of text accompanies the images.

Helps cruising sailors upgrade older fiberglass sailboats for cruising. This title covers strengthening major components, interior layout, plumbing, steering systems, repowering, rigs and sails, galley systems, and more. It presents a survey that reviews 90 models of fiberglass sailboats that lend themselves to offshore sailing.

Long typecast as the hotrods of the sea - fast but dangerous - modern cruising multihulls actually are among the safest and most comfortable cruising sailboats available. This book supplies the reader with information about design, construction, rigs, seamanship, safety, and rebuttal of the 'accepted wisdom' concerning multihull dangers.

What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in Scotland, to lure Nigerians to the cold of the Ukraine while heating up class warfare in the US heartlands, and both profit local gangsters and create local - and international - celebrities?

Detailing Lance Armstrong's battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller, appealing to fans of cycling as well as cancer survivors inspired by his full and dramatic recovery.

This book covers every practical aspect of cruising for the beginner and expert alike.

Explains a system of scantling rules and rules-of-thumb for calculating the necessary dimensions, or scantlings, of hulls, decks, and other boat parts, whether built of fiberglass, wood, wood-epoxy composite, steel, or aluminum. This book also offers a discussion of boatbuilding materials, methods, and practices of boat construction.

A reissue of acclaimed writer Paul Kimmage's classic bestselling sports biography of Tony Cascarino.

Based on the training principles of the Weider System of Bodybuilding, this book helps to improve your physique. It helps you master the fundamental of bodybuilding and how it reacts to various training and nutritional practices.

On 3 November 1996 sixteen sailors set out from the Bay of Biscay to embark on the Vendee Globe - a single-handed yacht race through the world's most treacherous and isolated seas. Of the sixteen starters only six completed the course, six others withdrew, three were plucked from sinking boats and one disappeared. This book deals with this race.

Leads readers through the process of crafting their own lashed-frame, fabric-covered, custom-fitted Greenland kayak, using common woodworking tools. This manual includes: primers in lumber milling, fastening, rib bending, and measuring; and instructions for making a Greenland paddle, paddling clothing, float bags, skegs, and more.

This amply illustrated introduction to flatwater and river paddling will be an important resource for both instructors and those who like to teach themselves.

As an instructor it takes time to develop a repertoire of exercises to suit all ages and abilities. This book has the answer: it provides a wide range of ideas with notes on how these can be adapted and developed for different levels, from beginner to advanced, whether children or adults, along with teaching tips for a professional delivery.

On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achievement. Messner describes his journey through Tibet and identifies with mountaineers who went before him, such as Mallory, Irvine and Wilson.

Offers details on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races. This book answers questions for those who are serious about the sport for example, how your body systems respond to training, the effects of different training methods, how to detect and avoid overtraining, and genetic versus trainable potential.

In this series of books on throwing and take-down techniques, Geoff Thompson, a leading expert on self-protection, teaches how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw. The book includes the original "blow before throw" techniques.

He ascended from a depth of 200 feet without breathing equipment to see if his lungs would burst, then studied the effects of underwater explosions by standing closer and closer until shattered by the blast.

Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook is a book of discovery, explaining the everyday skills you need to live in and enjoy the natural world. Packed with practical tips, insights into nature and respect for traditional knowledge, this is a book for families, groups and individual hikers and climbers - for everyone who enjoys outdoor life.

"The Secret Carp is a fishing book with a difference. As The Independent comments, it is one of the few books that manages to capture the real joy of fishing in such a way that even a non-angler could be seduced. It tells the true story of the events of a single day and night beside an English carp lake in high summer. When he stumbled upon a long-neglected, overgrown lake holding some monster carp, Chris Yates knew that he had discovered the kind of place about which every carp angler dreams. He set about trying to catch the huge, elusive inhabitants with rod and line. It was a quest that was to reveal many insights into the secretive behaviour of this king of freshwater fish and bring him thrillingly into contact with his quarry. Waiting, watching and stalking, quite undeterred by the damp sleeping bag and the cold. Yates' enthralling story whispers adventure and promise. And it is punctuated by moments of great drama as monster fish disturb the tranquil world of the angler. Fishermen of all persuasions will enjoy this masterful angling chronicle."