Sport science, physical education

Sport and exercise psychology has grown exponentially as an academic discipline and profession in the past decade.

Science in Elite Sport brings together experts from around the world with the aim of furthering collaboration between athletes and scientists working in the field of training in sport.

This book questions the limitation of exercise capacity in women by discussing female physiology from the perspectives of respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, body composition, and training adaptations.

Success in high performance sport is highly valued in today's world, with lucrative contracts, sponsorship deals, and opportunities for celebrity status balanced against substantial investments of time and energy, and high chances of failure.

In recent years, more students have chosen to study sport and exercise psychology with a view to building careers as applied practitioners.

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

This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate.

This book explores how medical device integration (MDI) supports quality patient care and better clinical outcomes by reducing clinical documentation transcription errors, improving data accuracy and density within clinical records and ensuring the complete capture of medical device information on patients.

The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant.

In recent years, more students have chosen to study sport and exercise psychology with a view to building careers as applied practitioners.

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.

Sport is increasingly being described as a complex system.

First published in 1997.

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

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.

The Third World Congress of Science and Football was held in Cardiff, Wales in April 1995.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs.

This is the first book to draw together cutting-edge research on the psychological processes underlying doping use in sport and exercise, thereby filling an important gap in our understanding of this centrally important issue in contemporary sport.

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team.

Athletes participating at all levels of endurance performance can relate to the impact of psychological factors.

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation.

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

Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects.

SPSS is the international standard software package for data analysis in the social sciences.

Whether you are an athlete suffering from nerves or someone who lacks motivation to exercise, sport and exercise psychology can help.

The relationship between sport and exercise psychology and the realm of professional sport and performance has grown exponentially in recent years.

Despite the rapid advance of the academic study of coaching science, there is a dearth of evidence on contemporary progressions within the coaching profession itself, particularly around the wide-ranging challenges that coaches face.

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role.

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.

Once athletes reach the highest levels of competition in college and professional sports, the mental aspect of the game becomes increasingly vital to performance.

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

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success.

A new volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series from the International Olympic Committee, this volume Canoeing provides an accessible and comprehensive summary of the topic.

World-class rehabilitation of the injured athlete integrates best practice in sports medicine and physical therapy with training and conditioning techniques based on cutting-edge sports science.

Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: PEFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Inspire, motivate and give confidence to your students with OCR PE for A Level Book 1.

This timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activity, and discusses how sport, and society, can move forward beyond the gender binary, in both theory and practice.

The third edition of Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology: New Perspectives explores the unique psychological dynamics that emerge in sport and exercise groups.

Creativity is an essential component of sport performance.

The 'feel-good' effect of physical activity is widely reported among participants.

Clinical Exercise Science is an introduction to core principles and best practice in exercise science for students and practitioners working with clinical populations.

Doping - the use of performance-enhancing substances and methods - has long been a high-profile issue in sport but in recent years it has also become an issue in wider society.

Sports Performance Massage instructs the student and practising therapist to use a combination of experience and scientific evidence to inform their sports massage practice, particularly when working with athletic populations.

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.

Masters athletes are those that continue to train and compete, typically at a high level, beyond the age of thirty-five and into middle and old age.

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology, Exercise Testing, and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences--whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment, or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials.

Over the last two decades Outdoor Studies has emerged as an innovative and vibrant field of study.

Exercise interactions with green and blue spaces offer low-cost, non-invasive solutions to public health challenges-particularly around mental health and obesity-and issues around environmental sustainability.

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.

Sport, Leisure and Tourism is a practical guide to finding information, encouraging readers to make active use of libraries in their research.

The 'feel-good' effect of physical activity is widely reported among participants.