Moody Library and Student Athletes: Track and Field

Leading-edge information on the timing of meals, the pros and cons of the most popular supplements, and recommendations especially applicable to the energy needs of athletes who train at least four or five times a week.

Discusses the past and future of women's soccer and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Michelle Akers, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Carin Gabarra, Mia Hamm, Kristine Luly, Carla Overbeck, and Brianna Scurry.

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Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens would nevertheless go on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international superstar overnight and exploding Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy in the process. William J. Baker's Jesse Owens is the most complete and probing biography of Owens ever written, vividly detailing the successes and failures of this complex and troubled but ultimately indomitable figure who transcended his own athleticism and became an American icon.

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Improve your flexibility and reach your athletic potential. Sport Stretch shows you how with stretching programs for 41 sports.

Inside you'll find illustrations and guidelines for 311 stretches. The most effective exercises are presented for each sport, with the 12 best highlighted -- perfect for warming up and cooling down. Or, work on your overall flexibility with the special "All Star" stretches -- the single most effective stretches for 28 different muscle groups. Take the guesswork out of stretching for your sport. Whether you're a weekend warrior or an elite athlete, Sport Stretch has everything you need to limber up and perform your best.

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These "ultimate guides" are 4 of a total of 33 like volumes that offer sport-specific training workouts. All of these books--and presumably the other titles in the sequence--have the same format. The first section covers year-round workouts for the specific sport, plus stretching, nutritional, and hydration needs for the athlete. The next four sections of each book are essentially the same: Price gives descriptions (complete with pictures) and reviews techniques for more than 80 different weight-training exercises. In each book he attempts to provide the best methods, program, and strategies for maximizing the athlete's potential in the sport. The books are geared toward the serious athlete who has experience in weight training. (Choice: Reviewed by T. K. Ambrose.)