Sport science, physical education

The proceedings of the Second World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and Fifth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress contain six keynote lectures which provide the latest research on a range of sport science topics as applied to tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton.

Sport psychology is a competitive profession with rigorous and demanding entry routes in terms of education, training and accreditation.

This edited book by two prominent professionals of Sport and Exercise and Performance Sciences addresses relevant issues and experiences as one becomes a sport, exercise and performance psychology practitioner.

Mobilizing Knowledge in Physiotherapy: Critical Reflections on Foundations and Practices is a collection of 15 collaboratively written critical essays, by 39 authors from 15 disciplines and seven countries.

Appealing to a wide audience, this ground-breaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies now being used by professional soccer clubs around the world.

Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching 'difference' in Sport and Physical Activity.

Throughout time, people have explored the ways in which they can improve some aspect of their performance.

Preschoolers are constantly using their bodies to play and learn, whether you encourage activity or not.

There have been many books written on the subject of obesity, but most have approached the topic from the standpoint of the nutritionist, concluding from the somewhat fallacious evidence of changes in body mass that exercise has little place in the prevention or the treatment of obesity.

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished.

Ethnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field of sport and exercise studies.

Athletic Development: A Psychological Perspective is an examination of the psychological factors that help or hinder the development of participants in sport.

Understanding and applying psychology within youth sport settings is key to maximising young athletes' enjoyment, wellbeing, and sporting performance.

Reaching for objects in our surroundings is an everyday activity that most humans perform seamlessly a hundred times a day.

When working with sports men and women, the biomechanist is faced with two apparently incompatible goals: reducing injury risk and improving sports performance.

Science and Football V presents the edited papers from the Fifth World Congress on Science and Football that took place in Portugal in April 2003.

Figurational sociology offers an important set of conceptual and methodological tools for helping us to understand sport, leisure and health and their relationship to wider society.

This revised text describes the theory substantiating adventure therapy, demonstrates best practices in the field, and presents research validating the immediate and long-term effects of adventure therapy.

Advances in Applied Sport Psychology aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in contemporary sport psychology.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive review of current research in the psychology of sports coaching.

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating in different societies, living in the system as a performer, and future developments in the domain.

The fourth World Scientific Congress of Golf, to be held in St Andrews in July 2002, will bring together all of the world's leading golf researchers.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.

Science and Racket Sports IV presents a selection of important contemporary research into the four core racket sport disciplines of tennis, badminton, squash and table tennis.

The ultimate pain-to-personal-best guide to running injuries, covering prevention, detection and rehabilitation.

Lifecourse research in physical activity tracks long-term trends in physical activity behaviours and gives an insight into the link between a physically active lifestyle and later-life health outcomes.

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise.

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

The health benefits associated with regular physical activity are now widely recognized.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

Contemporary strength and conditioning coaching is, for the most part, informed by the exercise sciences, with little engagement being made with sociocultural and pedagogical perspectives which have emerged in sports coaching research over the last two decades.

Community-based research has recently gained attention within the sport and exercise sciences.

Contemporary sport psychology is a rapidly developing and theoretically rich discipline, and a sophisticated and challenging profession.

Statistics for Sport and Exercise Studies guides the student through the full research process, from selecting the most appropriate statistical procedure, to analysing data, to the presentation of results, illustrating every key step in the process with clear examples, case-studies and data taken from real sport and exercise settings.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe.

Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society.

Digital technology plays an important role in the everyday lives of people.

Positive Pedagogy is an athlete-centred, inquiry-based approach that transforms the way we understand learning and coaching in sport and can be successfully employed across a range of different sports and levels of performance.

What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world?

It is well known that fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are all energy-yielding nutrients that influence health and physical performance.

Strength and power are key elements of soccer performance.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene V contains selected contributions from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2017, 10-11 April 2017, Guimaraes, Portugal).

Applied Exercise & Sport Physiology, Fourth Edition, presents theory and application in an appealing, balanced, and manageable format.

This book has arisen out of a need for a text which tackles the special issues relating to coaching children (from 6 - 16) in sport.

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games.

In recent years a new set of psychological principles has emerged from research investigating adventure and adventurous activities.

Positive Pedagogy is an athlete-centred, inquiry-based approach that transforms the way we understand learning and coaching in sport and can be successfully employed across a range of different sports and levels of performance.

Sport Psychology: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental ideas at the heart of Sport Psychology today.

Offering a philosophical perspective to the educational improvement agenda, this engaging text provides a new language for research into educational improvement, bringing leading-edge philosophy to current practice.