Sport science, physical education

This lab manual is designed to benefit those colleges and universities that offer courses with lab components in physical fitness, exercise physiology, and healthy lifestyles but do not have the facilities and/or budget to allow students to train in high-tech laboratory settings.

Physical education is an important part of the primary curriculum and one that provides unique challenges for those involved with its teaching.

Athletes are dependent upon a constant supply of accurate and reliable information from the environment whilst performing complex movements.

Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve.

Sports, and the fans that follow them, are everywhere.

In Functional Exercise Prescription, Eyal Lederman presents a revolutionary new approach for exercise prescription that uses the individual's own movement repertoire.

The use of performance analysis as an evaluative tool in the coaching process is now strongly embedded.

This book reviews the main principles of resistance training, from basics to modern insights.

First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football.

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

Critical Pedagogies in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health explores critical pedagogy - and critical work around the body, health and physical activity - within physical education.

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

Die Stabilität der Kraft unter dem Einfluss konditioneller Belastungen im Ringen ist eine aus dem Wettkampf sich ergebende Problemstellung.

The Science of Gymnastics provides the most comprehensive and accessible introduction available to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning performance in artistic gymnastics.

The ability to anticipate and make accurate decisions in a timely manner is fundamental to high-level performance in sport.

The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the media, and other key stakeholders in the field.

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

Filling an important gap in performance analysis literature, this book introduces the key concepts and practical applications of performance analysis for team sports.

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

Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research.

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

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance offers a clear, practical, and accessible guide to building a comprehensive understanding of sport and exercise nutrition from leading experts in nutrition and exercise science.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us.

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.

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.

Now in its second edition, this book provides a focused, comprehensive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in sport, with expertise from global experts in the field.

Speed and agility are central to success in a wide range of sports.

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

This book gives evidence-based background information and advice to athletes and coaches on if and how data from wearable technologies can be applied for preparing individual training procedures to achieve improvement on aspects of performance and health.

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality.

Growth Following Adversity in Sport: A Mechanism to Positive Change is the first text to carefully consider the positive changes that may follow adverse experiences in sport at micro (e.

This book introduces readers to Psychoadaptation-a general model of change that stresses the importance of experiencing disequilibrium in the development of a healthy Self-and applies it to a range of examples across the academic, sport, and health domains.

Originally published in 1963, Skill in Sport was addressed to students and teachers of Physical Education, to coaches interested in the more theoretical aspects of their work, and to all individuals who wished to find out the best ways to acquire skill in any particular game or sport.

Nutrition plays a role in the causes, treatment, and/or management of many chronic diseases, yet the physician's primary responsibility is to treat through medication.

There is developing interest in the use of sporting settings as a channel to connect people to health improvement services and an emerging body of research highlights football as being associated with positive motivational and social elements that support the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle.

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

This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy.

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.

The positive benefits of physical activity for physical and mental health are now widely acknowledged, yet levels of physical inactivity continue to be a major concern throughout the world.

Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, Theorie und Praxis der Angewandten Sportpsychologie im Leistungssport zu verbinden und somit neue Anregungen sowohl für die Forschung als auch für die Betreuungspraxis zu bieten.

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

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport.

Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means?

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

Die Sportpsychologie ist ein zentrales Lehrgebiet in den Studiengängen der Sportwissenschaft.

Esta obra ofrece al entrenador personal tanto los medios prácticos como la base científica para ayudarle a conformar programas de ejercicio seguros y eficaces para una amplia diversidad de personas.