Penguin Books Australia

As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it's past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigors and focus?

This new edition expands upon this success by making the book even more visual and easy-to-read.

Read it, watch it, do it - book and DVD guides for anyone itching to get up off the sofa and go!

The fast track way to play great golf. Clear step-by-step instructions from the book are visually reinforced on the 30-minute DVD using 360-degree live-action footage and eye-catching freeze-frame graphics.  

The only book and DVD series of it's kind to show you every aspect of playing golf from how...

Practical pocket guides, for quick and easy reference any time, anywhere.

Strength-Training Skills is a handy, pocket-sized instruction manual, covering the fundamentals of strength-training with step-by-step illustrations and clear, bite-sized tips. Offering everything you need to know to get started, along with a wealth of expert tricks and tips to improve skills and techniques, bench presses and...

The complete step-by-step guide to a stronger, sculpted body.

Build a better body with this essential handbook to strength training for men and women of all abilities. Step-by-step instructions and tailor-made programmes will help you reach individual goals.

Find over 150 exercises, with invaluable advice on preparation, nutrition and preventing injury. Each exercise is illustrated so you can perfect...

Football for Kids is a valuable resource for community football coaches of players aged seven and under.  This informative guide is designed to accompany and complement the FFA Grassroots Football Certificate course and its purpose is to make coaching children's teams easy and, most importantly, fun.

Sport Motivation covers all the bases for achieving excellence in sport, treating the mind as an essential part of sport training. It presents chapters on the skills and methods of Psychological Skills Training (PST), anxiety and peak performance, self-confidence, motivation and mental toughness, coping with pressure, communication and team-building, concentration, psychological rehabilitation from...

In The New Rules of Lifting , fitness guru Lou Schuler and strength-training expert Alwyn Cosgrove boil down the most recent findings on weight lifting and fitness to create a program of workouts that focuses on the movements at which the body naturally excels. These six "real-life" movements-squat, bend...

There's something about Australian Rules football that drives people towards madness. Something that produces great pain and joy and an insatiable hunger for more.

Passion Play journeys into the world of footy mania and the love and suffering at its heart. Drawing on the experiences of a diverse set of fans who've told their stories in interviews, books, articles, and on footy websites and blogs it...