Sports training and coaching

In this book, Timo Boll and Bernd-Ulrich Gro provide the reader with as much information as possible about modern table tennis.

Motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices are rapidly evolving.

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

What is physical literacy?

What is life really like for the elite athlete?

This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction.

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field.

Athletic Development: A Psychological Perspective is an examination of the psychological factors that help or hinder the development of participants in sport.

A one-stop resource for everyone to improve flexibility and keep muscles supple.

THE RUNNING AWARDS BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK'an inspiring collection of stories about runners who have run through unimaginable adversity to find perspective, resolution and ultimately peace, within themselves and with the universe.

Psychology has an important part to play in the teaching and practice of physical education and sport, and this volume, originally published in 1972, provided a systematic and authoritative introduction to the major areas in this field at the time.

The game of American football may be the greatest team sport that exists.

Taking a refreshingly different approach to the subject, this new textbook uses original case studies of psychological support work with individual athletes and groups to illustrate the underlying theory and inform the reader of cutting edge practice in the field.

Tag rugby, the RFU's official version of the game for under-7s and under-8s, is the perfect entry into the world of rugby.

Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people.

Sport Coach Education, Development, and Assessment offers a range of coach assessment ideas and practices from leaders in the coach education and development field.

Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations.

Why did Michael Jordan quit basketball and take up baseball?

Sport and physical activity are embedded in our education systems and in wider society.

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.

A one-stop guide for any aspiring runner including everything you need to know, whether you're doing your first run or your first marathon.

This book analyzes several hot topics in scientific literature about individual and team sports performance.

Dietary Supplementation in Sport and Exercise removes the myths associated with many dietary supplements.

This essential guidebook provides a comprehensive, holistic, and evidence-based account for improving the decision making of sports officials across different sports and levels.

Die Psyche ist maßgeblich an sportlichen Erfolgen und Misserfolgen beteiligt.

Elite Performance: Running is the second in a new series of Elite Performance titles aimed at aspiring recreational athletes who typically train and compete at club level and above.

This edited collection is positioned at the nexus of sports, society and creative writing.

For the last 25 years, a constraints-based framework has helped to inform the way that many sport scientists seek to understand performance, learning design and the development of expertise and talent in sport.

Dirk Bauermann gibt sein geballtes Fachwissen, das er mit der deutschen Basketball-Nationalmannschaft sowie internationalen und deutschen Spitzenmannschaften in 25 Jahren Trainertätigkeit gesammelt hat, an Trainer weiter.

Exercise by itself tears down the body.

The 4th edition of The Fitness Instructor's Handbook is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry.

Golf is one of the world's major sports and consequently the focus of world-class scientific research.

Interpersonal coordination is an important feature of all social systems.

Originally published in 1946, this companion volume to the author's cricket book deals with rugby football coaching and practice in schools.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING'A fascinating book about the psychology of elite sport Mind Games explores compelling territory.

Mental health is a rapidly increasing topic in the field of sport psychology.

This important study brings together world-leading researchers to reflect upon the state of the social scientific study of sport.

Building on the unfolding and expanding embeddedness of digital technologies in all aspects of life, Interactive Sports Technologies: Performance, Participation, Safety focuses on the intersection of body movement, physical awareness, engineering, design, software, and hardware to capture emerging trends for enhancing sports and athletic activities.

This edited collection is positioned at the nexus of sports, society and creative writing.

This book demonstrates the efficacy of a multidisciplinary intervention strategy for promoting active and healthy ageing, with the assistance of dedicated technological resources.

An updated third edition of the guide for new mums, fitness leaders and physios on how to regain fitness following the birth of a baby.

A New York Times-bestselling author presents the definitive biography of arguably the last team to play old-fashioned tough-guy football.

Sport Science and Studies in Asia encourages readers to be reflective practitioners, as students or researchers, or thinkers of sports, to be independent seekers of future sport knowledge, and yet mindful and grounded in a full knowledge and awareness of the social, cultural and country-specific nuances of sports.

The sport of trail running is booming as more runners seek more adventurous routes and a deeper connection with nature.

The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing.

If you want to burn calories but don't have the time, find out how by following this calorie burn workout book - in e-book formatCreated in collaboration with the popular boutique chain Sweaty Betty, with a foreword from its founder Tamara Hill-Norton.