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Protect the Puck and Shoot for the Goalie

Protect the Puck and Shoot for the Goalie

1. The forward protects the puck for 15 seconds and then drives for the net... Read More

Power Play Breakouts and Double Double With a Drop

Power Play Breakouts and Double Double With a Drop

To begin, the coach shoots the puck into the corner. The five players for the... Read More

Understand the function of ligaments

Understand the function of ligaments

You can read Human Kinetics e-books on desktop, laptop, and various mobile devices, as long... Read More

Guidelines for stretching

Guidelines for stretching

Proponents of stretching claim it helps prevent injuries, prevents soreness, improves performance, promotes body awareness,... Read More

Safety considerations for facilitated stretching

Safety considerations for facilitated stretching

Facilitated stretches entail virtually no risk of injury because there is little or no passive... Read More

General Procedures for Testing and Evaluating Physical Fitness

General Procedures for Testing and Evaluating Physical Fitness

The most common way of using the BPFT is for testers to adopt the parameters... Read More

Youngsters With Intellectual Disability and Mild Limitations in Physical Fitness

Youngsters With Intellectual Disability and Mild Limitations in Physical...

Health-related needs and concerns of youngsters with intellectual disability and mild limitations in physical fitness... Read More

Testing a bench press

Testing a bench press

This test item and its procedures were modified from Johnson and Lavay (1989). In it,... Read More

Stretching your quadriceps, hip flexors, and adductors

Stretching your quadriceps, hip flexors, and adductors

Runners cannot avoid working their quadriceps and hip flexors (the muscles in front of the... Read More