Athletic Training for Men and Boys - A Comprehensive System of Training Tables for All Events
Athletic Training for Men and Boys - A Comprehensive System of Training Tables for All Events

Author: F. A. M. Webster

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1528768744

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“Athletic Training for Men and Boys” is a vintage illustrated guide to athletics by F. A. M. Webster. It contains a complete system of athletics training to be followed by coaches or students, and will be of considerable utility to athletes new and old. Frederick Annesley Michael Webster (1886 – 1949) was a British athletics coach and author, and soldier active during World War One. He wrote profusely on the subject of athletics, with his best known book being “Athletics in Action” (1931). Contents include: Value of Training and Use of Training”, “Tables of Effort Explained”, “The Sprints”, “440 Yards”, “Short Middle Distances and Three-quarter-mile Steeplechase”, “Distance Races and Two-mile Steeplechase”, “Yards High Hurdles”, “Yards Low Hurdles”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on athletics.

A History of British Sports Medicine
A History of British Sports Medicine

Author: Vanessa Heggie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1526130246

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This book offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the development of sports medicine in Britain, as practiced by British doctors and on British athletes in national and international settings. It takes as its focus the changing medical concept of the ‘athletic body’. Athletes start the century as normal, healthy citizens, and end up as potentially unhealthy physiological ‘freaks’, while the general public are increasingly urged to do more exercise and play more sports. It also considers the origins and history of all the major institutions and organisations of British sports medicine, and shows how they interacted with and influenced international sports medicine and sporting events. As well as being an important read for anyone interested in ‘body history’, this volume will be essential reading for those studying or researching the history of modern medicine, sports, or twentieth century Britain more generally.

An Athletics Compendium
An Athletics Compendium

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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The genesis for this book was a 1969 compilation in which Peter Lovesey and Tom McNab described all books on track and field to date. Both authors have had a lifetime interest and involvement in athletics and the present work builds on that knowledge and expertise to give the reader a definitive guide to the UK literature of track and field. This super bibliography includes an extensive introductory overview of the literature by Tom McNab, as well as annotations contributed by all three compilers. The compendium covers the history, theory and practice, and personalities of athletics as well as special chapters on athletics in literature and the visual arts.

Greek Athletics
Greek Athletics

Author: F. A. Wright

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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Greek Athletics explores the inspirations for the current day Olympics. Anybody would marvel at the fun illustrations and accurate descriptions of ancient Greek recreation. Contents: Athletics, Athletic Festivals, Gymnastics and Military Training, Physical Exercise, cont.