Sports training and coaching

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

Winning strategies of one of football's most successful coachesAs FIFA's most decorated female football manager and a former player, Sarina Wiegman has led both the Netherlands and England women's national teams to historic victories.

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

'Quite simply, it contains the tools to make you a better runner.

This book explores early childhood teacher educators' lived experiences in designing and implementing intentional play-based approaches in teaching preservice teachers.

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.

This book seeks to bring together the two disciplines of informal and outdoor education, and challenges readers to think differently about outdoor and adventure education.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

This brief highlights the application of performance analysis tools in data acquisition, and various machine learning algorithms for evaluating team performance as well as talent identification in beach soccer and sepak takraw.

This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football.

The ultimate 'one stop' guide to using this bestselling piece ofequipment - not just in the gym but at home too.

The breadth of our moral experience is more extensive than has been believed over the past several millennia.

"e;The best general introduction to positive psychology available.

This book outlines an approach to teaching and learning in physical education that prioritises meaningful experiences for pupils, using case studies to illustrate how practitioners have implemented this approach across international contexts.

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.

The Game Centred Approach (GCA) is the ideal framework for coaches and teachers to develop comprehensive tactical or technical lessons for any game, both in physical education and in extracurricular sport contexts.

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

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people.

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

'Humble and very funny' - Ned Boulting'Essential reading for any tape rider' - Daniel Friebe, co-host of The Cyclist PodcastAn Everyman dropped into the world of Supermen.

Research Methods in Sports Coaching is a key resource for any student, researcher or practitioner wishing to undertake research into sports coaching.

Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest.

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.

This is the first book to offer a critical examination of the delivery of before and after-school physical activity programs, from global perspectives.

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.

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade.

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.

Overweight students often suffer negative consequences with regard to low physical ability, skills, and fitness; obesity-related health implications; teasing and exclusion from physical education by their peers; and psychosocial and emotional suffering as a result of weight stigma.

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.

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability?

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.

This book outlines an approach to teaching and learning in physical education that prioritises meaningful experiences for pupils, using case studies to illustrate how practitioners have implemented this approach across international contexts.

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.

In recent decades, the sporting landscape has seen many changes, notably the inclusion and professionalization of sport science and coaching.

This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy.

Vince Lombardi's views on life and leadership--inspiring and motivational--placed in A-Z format for the first timeLegendary football coach Vince Lombardi left the national spotlight more than three decades ago, but his fiery words continue to resonate in today's hard-charging business arena.

First published in 1992, David Kirk's book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools.

Dieses Trainingsbuch ist das Ergebnis zweier Weltmeisterschaftsvorbereitungen in der 10-Tänze-Disziplin.