Many sports people are interested in trying yoga techniques in the hope of improved flexibility, strength, breathing and concentration, but many can be prevented from optimal results due to a lack of understanding on the part of yoga teachers of the specific physical requirements of their sport. This is a manual for professionals who work with athletes of all disciplines and shows them how to adapt yoga practice for swimmers, cyclists, runners, tennis players and more.

This bridge between evidence-based modern sports medicine and the ancient practices of yoga, provides solid training guidance as well as offers psychological wisdom to help control and refine the actions of the mind.

Essential reading for yoga therapists and teachers, athletic coaches and bodywork professionals who work with athletes.

Johnny Reece is a major league pitcher who has always had a talent for striking people out. Teams fell over themselves trying to recruit the young man with the menacing fastball. But baseball isn't his only talent. You see, he's also a major league hit-man.... a contract killer who likes his work. Reece can do more than strike you out...he can eliminate you altogether.Jack Kane is a retired New York City detective who travels to Pittsburgh in search of the killer of one of his long time informant friends. Kane is in his mid-forties and a talented man in his own right. He left the NYPD and tried other things, but eventually he returned to what he did best...catching bad guys. When it comes to murder investigations, Jack Kane is a big leaguer too. For action and suspense, 'Squeeze Play' is a grand slam. Squeeze Play is a Grand Slam.

Retired NYC detective Jack Kane returns and joins forces, once again, with Pennsylvania state police detective Tom Caputo to stop a terrorist cell from exploding a suitcase nuclear bomb in the center of downtown Pittsburgh. If they are not stopped, the president of the United States and the Israeli prime minister, who are in town to speak at a meeting of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, will die. Not only is the duo pitted against a sophisticated and deeply embedded terrorist cell, but Kane also finds that he is up against an old nemesis who is known only as the Ghost. He had his first falling out with this hired assassin while on the force in the mid nineties. The two return for an explosive confrontation. Jim Harrington is a former major market radio personality. You may have heard his work in Boston on WBZ, New York on WCBS-FM or Pittsburgh on KDKA. This is his second book in the Jack Kane mystery series.