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1) Golf
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Learn about the world of golf and how science is helping the game. You'll read about golf clubs, balls, courses, carts, and statistics, and get a better understanding of how golf is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
2) Hockey
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Learn about the world of hockey and how science is helping the game. You'll read about hockey skates, hockey sticks, and goalie equipment, and get a better understanding of how hockey is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim around Great Britain, breaking multiple world records. Now Ross focuses on mental strength, stoicism and the training needed to create an unbreakable body. Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848m),...
4) Desarrollar la musculatura en la tercera edad: Ejercicios de entrenamiento de fuerza para hombres
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Atención: Las personas mayores que quieren ganar músculo
¿Piensa que es demasiado mayor para ganar músculo?
¿Está confundido sobre cómo empezar?
¿Ha iniciado anteriormente el entrenamiento de fuerza solo para dejarlo debido a lo extenuante del ejercicio?
Este completo audio libro de ejercicios de entrenamiento de fuerza está diseñado específicamente para ayudarle a descifrar el misterio que hay detrás de la construcción de músculo...
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Hear the voices of Olympic Track Greats, including Jesse Owens, winner of 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; Josy Barthel, a Luxembourgish runner who won the men's 1500 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics; and Roger Bannister, an English athlete best known for breaking the 4-minute mile.
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On October 3, 1951, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a dramatic ninth inning game-winning home run off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in the decisive third game of a three-game playoff to win the National League pennant. It would be known in baseball lore as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." The game-the first ever televised nationally-was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions...
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From world-renowned adventurer and best-selling author of The Art of Resilience and The World’s Fittest Book comes the ultimate blueprint to (re)building a bulletproof body.
Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human...
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Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who...
11) Walkabout
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Walkabout is about the people, places, and experiences that you discover when you step out on the trail. In this novel, you will meet peakbaggers, daytrippers, thru-hikers, tribes, ruckers, and the earthy set, all finding their way to whatever that five miles at a time reveals to them at different moments. You will hear from people on the Appalachian Trail who have hiked it from one end to the other. People that seek peeks in a way that adds a bit...
12) Resistance Band Workout for Seniors: The Only Workout Program With Resistance Bands You'll Ever Need
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If you're an older adult looking to improve your strength and mobility, then keep listening…
Do you sometimes feel physically weak?
Have you ever felt constantly weary and continuously fatigued?
Are you intrigued by the idea of improving your body composition without having to purchase a gym membership?
Don't worry about feeling weak again; this guide will show you how to gain strength by only using resistance bands! The program is designed...
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Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "Bumble", the legendary SkySports cricket commentator who's one ball short of an over and delivers madcap moments galore in this ebullient, endearing and hilarious new book. David "Bumble" Lloyd is a legend in our living rooms, a genuine "good bloke" all cricket fans feel they know inside out because of his infectious, larger-than-life personality and that distinctive Lancashire burr. Bumble has become the...
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Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates Britain's unique and extraordinary network of...
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Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, gulls, kites — Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies. The problem is that predators eat what we farm or use for sport. From foxes and ravens attacking new-born lambs to weasels eating game-bird chicks, predators compete with us, putting them directly into the firing line. Farming,...
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2017 marked a record-breaking year for Lewis Hamilton. Becoming only the fifth driver in history to win more than three World Championships, Hamilton joined the ranks of motor racing legends. Through in-depth race reports and analysis this audiobook will relive the dramatic race to the title. The list of Lewis Hamilton's accolades is seemingly endless. The Englishman now holds the outright record for the number of consecutive races in which he has...
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Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and...
18) Hard Miles
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Hard Miles tells the uplifting true story of the bicycling team at Rite of Passage's Ridge View Academy, a medium-security correctional school in Colorado. The film follows beleaguered coach Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) as he rounds up an unlikely crew.
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Bumble is back! The funny, forthright and not infrequently filthy author of best-seller 'Start the Car' and star of Sky Sports returns with a new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the microphone. It's the book that Bumble's many fans have been longing for. After three long years, Bumble is finally back! The outspoken author of best-seller 'Start the Car' returns with a whole new cricket bag full of yarns from his years on the...
20) Mental Endurance
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You can train all you like, but when it comes to the crunch, do you have the mental endurance to see yourself through combat situations, being held hostage or finding yourself at the mercy of the elements? SAS and Elite Forces Handbook: Mental Endurance examines what it takes to be as mentally fit as a special forces soldier. It is equally important to focus on diet, rest patterns and mental discipline as it is to concentrate on push-ups, sit-ups...
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