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.
This book provides core coaching principles and beliefs for you to operate from as you manage your team, as well as guidance to help you develop key coaching skills including listening, asking effective questions, building rapport and how to give constructive (performance-based) feedback.
Placebo effects have been recognised by medicine and by science, yet only recently has systematic research begun to fully understand what they are and how they work.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure offers contemporary, research-informed information regarding the key psychological factors affecting golf development and performance under pressure.
Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities.
Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities.
In this fully revised third edition of Isokinetics: Muscle Testing, Interpretation and Clinical Applications, a group of international experts cover the main developments that have taken place in the field of isokinetics in the last 20 years.
In this fully revised third edition of Isokinetics: Muscle Testing, Interpretation and Clinical Applications, a group of international experts cover the main developments that have taken place in the field of isokinetics in the last 20 years.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century.
The global increase in viewership of and participation in women's football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the specific scientific and health issues that determine successful performance for women.
The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are studied and understood in relation to bodies in action.
Elite youth sport competitions have increased significantly in number in recent years, with the Youth Olympic Games representing the high point of this phenomenon.
Uno de los principales interrogantes que intenta resolver este libro consiste en entender el concepto de competencia desde un enfoque histórico y teórico de las ciencias de la educación, que concibe al ser humano como un ser competente en vez de competitivo.
Bewegte Schule, Bewegungsfreundliche Schule, Bewegungsfreudige Schule - es gibt verschiedene Begriffe für dasselbe Grundanliegen: Schulen sollen bewegungsfreundlicher und das Schulleben der Schülerinnen und Schüler soll bewegungsfreudiger werden.
Este nuevo libro de Pablo Esper Di Cesare, completa la trilogía sobre preparación física en Baloncesto en etapas de formación, convirtiéndose así en una obra de referencia mundial, única en su tipo, para los entrenadores y preparadores físicos.
The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is a comprehensive text that provides students with meaningful lab experiences in the area of strength and conditioning and applied sport science.
The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is a comprehensive text that provides students with meaningful lab experiences in the area of strength and conditioning and applied sport science.
This book utilizes a wealth of case studies to demonstrate the importance of using depth sport psychology to explore and understand athletes' unconscious feelings and fears, and provides the knowledge needed to help athletes deal with pressures faced throughout their sporting career.
This book utilizes a wealth of case studies to demonstrate the importance of using depth sport psychology to explore and understand athletes' unconscious feelings and fears, and provides the knowledge needed to help athletes deal with pressures faced throughout their sporting career.
This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.
This book offers a thorough and accessible look into the importance of recovery in both staying healthy and performing well, and highlights the detrimental effects of underrecovery on physical and mental health.
This book offers a thorough and accessible look into the importance of recovery in both staying healthy and performing well, and highlights the detrimental effects of underrecovery on physical and mental health.
This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.
Esta obra recoge algunas experiencias de formación en recreación de promotores lúdicos del país y presenta un profundo análisis en torno a la pertinencia de la recreación en diversos contextos en los que la relación con los niños exige agentes de cambio creativos y reflexivos.
