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The Fit and Healthy Dancer (110166)

£39.50

by Yiannis Koutedakis and N C Craig Sharp

Published 1999 by John Wiley & Sons (Paperback)

This volume will help dance and drama students and their teachers, professional dancers dance fitness instructors and choreographers, physiotherapists and medical practitioners appreciate the importance of a whole host of fitness-related concepts including:

  • energy and energy production
  • nutrition to fuel dance
  • principles and training of endurance, strength and power, mobility and flexibility
  • the importance of warm-up and cool-down
  • weight balance and the effects of reduced body weight in dancers
  • bone density, osteoporosis, amenorrhoea and the most common injuries in dancers
  • the causes of injuries, overtraining, exercise induced asthma
  • life after a professional dance career

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