Dance for Sports: A Practical Guide
- Author: Apostolos, Margo K.
This book will be useful in advocating for dance classes for athletes and serves as a guide for sports coaches, teachers, and players who wish to incorporate dance into their training regimens...
Dance for Sports: A Practical Guide
- Author: Apostolos, Margo K.
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This book will be useful in advocating for dance classes for athletes and serves as a guide for sports coaches, teachers, and players who wish to incorporate dance into their training regimens...
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In Dance for Sports, author, choreographer, and dance instructor Margo Apostolos offers a new training approach for athletes and coaches that synthesizes common techniques between athletics and dance. By utilizing this approach, in- and off-season athletes can improve efficiency and relaxation. Throughout the book, Apostolos shows the potential exchange between sport and dance in exercises that focus on overlapping physical components of both practices including flexibility, strength, coordination, agility, balance, and timing. She also demonstrates how dance serves sport as a cross training activity with additional opportunities for athletes to explore creativity, improvisation, and mindfulness. Discussion with athletes from several sports interweaves each chapter to expand the learning process and offer useful anecdotes. Based upon the author's decades-long career and extensive experience with athletes and coaches in sports from basketball to swimming to track and field, Dance for Sports provides a fully integrative guide for students and instructors alike.
Contents
- Dedication Acknowledgements Foreword By Steve Miller Introduction The Backstory An Accidental Athlete: Boxing Baseball, and Ballet The Framework of Dance For Sports
- 1. Seeing the Dance: Sport Similarity
- 2. Feeling the Dance: Transfer of Training
- 3. Hearing the Dance: The Rhythmic Response
- 4. Poetry In Motion: Kinesthetic Awareness Mind and Body Fitness
- 5. Between the Linear and the Lateral: Creativity and Improvisation
- 6. Form, Fun, and Fitness: Cross Training Beyond the Dance
- 7. Arete: Body and Spirit in Pure Symmetry Glossary of Terms in Dance, Sport, and Anatomy Conversations With Champions Bibliography Further Readings Appendix - Dance For Divers Index
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