How to manage risk
Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation: The Essential Guide for Loss Prevention provides all the tools you need in order to design a bespoke comprehensive risk management plan to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Month: September 2009
Size a clue to anterior cruciate ligament damage
A study comparing images of the knees of people who had and hadn’t suffered injury to their anterior cruciate ligaments, suggests that those who tore their ACLs were more likely to have a smaller ligament than do similarly sized people who have never injured a knee.
The Sociology of Sport
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory addresses a range of academic and general topics and provides readers with the opportunity to consider these issues in light of traditional and contemporary sociological theories.
British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation Annual Conference
We would like to remind delegates to previous BACR conferences, that this year’s event is being held on Thursday and Friday and not Friday and Saturday as in other years.
Kettlebells reinvented as the trendiest new fitness tool
After being used consistently by the Russian military for over 200 years, the Kettlebell has shrugged off its iron curtain image and reinvented itself as the trendiest new fitness tool. Looking like cannonballs with handles, celebrities love them and it’s not just macho types like Sylvester Stallone and Matthew McConaughey either. The likes of Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Aniston and Geri Halliwell are all fans and even Premier League giants Chelsea and Liverpool have incorporated them into their training regimes So what is the difference between exercising with a kettlebell and lifting barbells or free weights?
Are vitamin supplements a waste of money?
Well, unless you have particular dietary needs, vitamin supplements probably are a waste of money and may even be harmful, a nutritionist told a meeting at the recentBritish Science Festival
Understanding the function of the nutrients in the body
Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance, Second Edition, will help students and practitioners understand the function of the nutrients in the body and how these nutrients affect health and athletic performance.
Showering can damage your health
If you are getting a face full of water when you first turn your shower on, that means you are probably getting a particularly high load of Mycobacterium avium, which may not be too healthy