Sport science, physical education

Complex Cases in Sport Psychology offers instructors and students a unique and novel approach to teaching and learning about sport psychology.

Coaches, managers and athletes frequently ask about how they can recover as fast as possible from fatigue and improve subsequent performance.

Strength and power are key elements of soccer performance.

The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation.

The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines.

The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level.

The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry held its 8th International Conference in Manchester in July 2002.

Exercise, Health and Mental Health provides an introduction to this emerging field and a platform for future research and practice.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

The relationship between mental health and elite sport has found itself under more intense scrutiny in recent years.

This volume explores how technology-supported learning environments can incorporate physical activity and interactive experiences in formal education.

Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world.

Technological advances over the last two decades have placed genetic research at the forefront of sport and exercise science.

This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).

Over the past three decades the study of pediatric physical inactivity has become a public health concern.

This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).

The popularity of distance running as a sport, and a recreational activity, is at an all-time high.

Sport and Exercise Science: An Introduction provides a broad-based foundation in the major areas that underpin the scientific study of sport and exercise science, thus helping undergraduate students to develop a sound understanding of human anatomy, physiology, nutrition, metabolism, biomechanics and psychology related to sport, exercise and health.

This guide and textbook on motorsport engineering is written from a practical point of view.

This book contains the papers presented at the second World Scientific Congress of Golf.

This ground-breaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how organizational psychology can be used to understand and improve performance in elite sport.

Drawing on real-world experience and presented in an informal and accessible manner, Writing and Publishing Research in Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Science provides upper-level students and early-career academics with an essential resource to aid in disseminating research and publishing their first papers.

This book covers the general laws governing human biomechanics through an extensive review of martial arts techniques and references to fundamental theory.

Starting university can be a daunting prospect, as students come to grips with new ways of working, learning and thinking.

A unique and groundbreaking analysis of how to succeed in equestrian sport, this book unpacks the winning habits of successful equestrians to form a toolkit for readers to develop their own winning habits.

This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations.

This book presents first-time research findings and new empirically based perspectives and applications in sport psychology.

It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health?

The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world's oldest sports medicine organization.

Children and Exercise XXIV presents the latest scientific research into paediatric exercise physiology, endocrinology, kinanthropometry, growth and maturation, and youth sport.

The eighth edition of Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education and Exercise Science, now published in paperback and hardback, offers students a clear and practical guide to best practice for measurement and evaluation in school- and nonschool-based physical activity programs.

Fatigue is an important concern for athletes at all levels, recreational sport and exercise participants, athletic coaches, personal trainers, and fitness professionals.

'Why don't young athletes in sport just quit?

Anyone who has ever competed in a sport, taken an exam, or appeared on stage understands the importance of performing at the right time.

The growth of neuroscience and the spread of general interest in the brain have prompted concern for ethical issues posed by neuroscientists.

Research Methods in Sports Coaching is a key resource for students and scholars who are completing research into sports coaching.

Faster, Fitter, Happier is the first book to bridge the gap between the practice of psychology across both professional and amateur sport, and the theoretical foundations on which the science is based.

Emotion is central to human character, infiltrating our physiological functions and our mental constitution.

Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to provide researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts.

Despite its crucial importance, scientists interested in the limitations of human physical performance have only just started to give the field of oxygen uptake kinetics the attention it deserves.

As sport has become more professionalised over the last thirty years, so the role of nutrition in promoting health and performance has become ever more important to athletes who search for the extra edge to succeed in their respective sports.

Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

This book guides sport coaches, parents and administrators in creating a caring and task-involving sport climate that helps athletes perform their best and have an enjoyable and meaningful sport experience.

Based on survey data derived from face-to-face interviews with 2,400 schoolchildren, 600 four-day diaries and focus groups with both elite performers, coaches and parents, the book offers a comprehensive overview of young people's involvement in sport and physical activity in the 1990s.

Balancing training, stress, and recovery is essential for achieving optimal performance.

The Science of Judo is the first book to set out and discuss the science, coaching and history behind judo performance.

As the field of sport psychology has matured, so a greater appreciation for a diversity of training models, research methodologies, and therapeutic approaches, opposed to the dominant models of objective testing, has developed.

One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results.

Physical training is a key part of preparing to play soccer (football) at any level, but organising a genuinely effective training programme requires both an understanding the physiological principles involved and a practical knowledge of the demands of the game.

Development of the Youth Athlete offers a single-authored, well-illustrated, evidence-based, and integrated analysis of the development and trainability of the morphological and physiological characteristics which influence sport performance in youth.