Sport science, physical education

This book takes a radically different approach to the challenge of coaching in strength and conditioning.

Clinical sport psychology is a rapidly growing field that brings together research and clinical interventions from both clinical psychology and sport and performance psychology.

Advanced Statistics for Kinesiology and Exercise Science is the first textbook to cover advanced statistical methods in the context of the study of human performance.

Work smarter, not harder.

Data Analysis and Research for Sport and Exercise Science is tailored to suit undergraduate sports and exercise science students seeking a clear understanding of data and statistics to support their scientific research.

Performance analysis has become an essential tool for coaches, athletes, sports organisations and academic researchers.

The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference.

Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work.

Die körperlichen Belastungen von Fallschirmjägern der Bundeswehr sind höher denn je.

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

The new edition of this leading text is an essential guide to promoting healthy behaviour in a multi-cultural society, providing a holistic stance that integrates both physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes.

Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport.

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity.

Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader's understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management.

This text explores the attentional processes of athletes using a theoretical framework derived from contemporary cognitive psychology.

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being.

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The fifth edition of Introduction to Exercise Science introduces students to every core area of study in the discipline.

The pandemic has taught us all how important it can be to look after our physical and mental health, and how worthwhile it is to invest in taking care of ourselves.

Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

This book describes how, as a species our survival and capacity to flourish depends on realizing the intimate relationship of humans with nature through active, embodied participation with nature.

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology integrates the topics of motor control, physical education, exercise, adventure, performance in sports, and the performing arts, in several important ways and contexts, drawing upon diverse cultural perspectives.

This book critically analyses the concept of endurance from different theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical perspectives.

Many female athletes struggle with body confidence and change their nutrition in unhealthy ways, only to the detriment of both their performance and their health.

Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and exercise psychology with the art of judgement and decision-making to deliver services to athletes.

Within the Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) and allied disciplines, reflective practice has become firmly established as a fundamental aspect of education, professional training and development, and applied service delivery.

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

Positive psychology (PP) is a fast-developing area of research that emphasises personal growth and the positive qualities of life.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives.

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

Many sport and performance psychologists worldwide practise cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) as a therapeutic and applied practice approach.

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.

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

First published in 1922, The Psychology of Golf examines the mental side of golf from the point of view of the player, and the author's whole aim is to assist and interest both the expert and the novice.

A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new approach to baseball coaching and practice.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control brings together the very latest developmental research using biomechanical measurement and analysis techniques and is the first book to focus on biomechanical aspects of child development.

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA), the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world.

In recent times, the ASEP (American Society of Exercise Physiologists) leaders have developed and implemented academic standards to promote professionalism in academic programs throughout the U.

In diesem Buch werden die Vorträge des dritten "Gebhardt-Symposiums" veröffentlicht, das vom Willibald-Gebhardt-Institut gemeinsam mit der Deutschen Olympischen Akademie Willi Daume im Mai 2011 als Beitrag zum "Gebhardt-Jahr" in Essen durchgeführt wurde.

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences.

It is commonly accepted that "e;exercise is good for children"e; but, considering the number of children worldwide exercising, we know comparatively little, compared to adults, about how specific mechanisms influence health and sports performance.