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.

About the Author
Margo Apostolos is Associate Professor of Dance at University of Southern California and co-director and co-founder of the Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center. In addition to teaching and research in dance and sport, her research includes work in robot choreography, dance medicine, dance science, and conditioning for dance.

Reviews
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 ... Recommended. * E. McPherson, CHOICE *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190621384
Author Margo K. Apostolos
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 173mm * 251mm * 13mm