Koutedakis, Yiannis,

The fit and healthy dancer / Yiannis Koutedakis and N.C. Craig Sharp, with contributions from Colin Boreham [and others]. - xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography of Editors and Authors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Energy and Food for Exercise and Fitness -- Energy for Exercise and Fitness -- Food for Exercise and Fitness -- Fit to Dance -- Non-artistic Components of Dance Performance -- Muscle and its Physiology -- The Main Physical Fitness Components and Dance -- Fitness and Training -- The Healthy Dancer -- Introduction -- Overtraining - Burnout -- Asthma and Dance -- Body Weight Control -- Body Weight and Bone Density -- Anatomical and Physiological Gender Differences -- Children and Dance -- Life After a Professional Dance Career -- Glossary -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Dancers--Health and hygiene

RC1220.D35 / K68 1999

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