Sports training and coaching

Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture.

Jungian psychology of football is a new and cutting edge approach being applied by Champions league teams and used in youth football training.

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work.

The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people's involvement in sport.

Top handball athletes Andy Schmid, Uwe Gensheimer, and Domagoj Duvnjak not only react to game situations in the moment, but they can also predict the next situations, allowing them to anticipate their opponents and win games.

Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body.

Whether on water, pavement, or fluffy white powder, the history of surfing,skateboarding, and snowboarding is a landscape filled with rugged personalities, exotic locales, wild innovation, and most of all the united dream of becoming one with the oceans, streets, and mountains.

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

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics.

When human muscle fatigues, athletic performance becomes impaired.

This is the first book to explore in depth the science of climbing and mountaineering.

Sports Coaching: The Basics is an engaging and provocative introduction to sports coaching which combines coaches' views and experiences of their work with discussions and topical issues that feature in this fast-growing field.

'A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football' Matthew Syed, The Times'A fascinating assessment of football in 2019' ObserverAn insightful, comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the author of the much heralded The Mixer.

Can you really keep your eye on the ball?

Swimming Studies is a wonderful, unique book from the writer and artist Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, with her artwork.

Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying extends and enriches the current literature on workplace bullying by examining specifically how work abuse disproportionality hurts women of color, affecting their mental health negatively and hence their career progression.

Positive psychology (PP) is a fast-developing area of research that emphasises personal growth and the positive qualities of life.

With contributions from international scholars of marketing and consumer studies, this renowned text engages directly with a range of contemporary themes, including: The importance of arts consumption and its socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions The impact of new technologies, platforms, and alternative artforms on the art market The importance of the aesthetic experience itself and how to research it The value of arts-based methods The art versus commerce debate The artist as entrepreneur The role of the arts marketer as market-maker This fully updated new edition covers digital trends in the arts and emerging technologies, including virtual reality, streaming services, and branded entertainment.

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of Sport and Exercise Psychology research, charting the progression of the field from the early days when well-controlled experimental research was the standard, to the subsequent paradigm war between positivism, post-positivism and constructivism.

Sport psychologists working with athletes, teams and sports performers are only as effective as their professional techniques and competencies will allow.

This shortform book defines and situates the role of Public Relations as a creative industry and discusses the trends and issues that the sector is facing within the wider context of the Creative Industries.

Controversies in Exercise Science introduces a series of selected unresolved issues in the field of human exercise science.

The Complete Guide to Sports Massage, 4th edition is a comprehensive, practical handbook.

Coaches are placed in a myriad of ethical decision-making situations.

Sport is an integral part of society, playing a key role in human health and well-being, and cultural, political and economic development.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the range of research methods available to applied psychologists.

Scoreboard Soccer develops players through play and praise.

Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations.

"e;Coaching for Performance is the proven resource for all coaches and pioneers of the future of coaching.

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 Complete Guide to Postural Training is the first book to take a systematic approach to improving posture, from initial postural assessment to a programme of corrective exercise.

To understand play, we need a bottom-up phenomenology of play.

Motor Learning in Practice explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport, and explains how a constraints-led approach can be used to design more effective learning environments for sports practice and performance.

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

There is now a widespread expectation that teachers and coaches should be reflective practitioners, an expectation written into national standards of education in many countries.

Learn the secrets for becoming the inspirational coach everyone is waiting for Think about the coaches you ve had throughout your life.

Successful sport psychology professionals have benefitted from stimulating conversations, challenging questions, support, camaraderie, guidance, and advice offered by their graduate school classmates.

This book looks at how sport and sports organisations have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing on those instances where commodification gives rise to morally undesirable consequences.

Das Lehrbuch greift Themen auf, die für die beiden Hauptanwendungsgebiete der Psychologie stehen: nämlich Leistung und Gesundheit.

This book showcases new research in sport business management around the world, offering a platform for the international exchange of ideas, best practices, and scientific inquiries in a globalized sport economy.

Physical education and sport in schools is undergoing renewed emphasis and the primary sector key stages are rightly seen as fundamental elements in the new initiatives.

Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport.

As technology becomes an ever more prevalent part of everyday life and population-based physical activity programmes seek new ways to increase lifelong engagement with physical activity, so the two have become increasingly linked.

In this superbly researched, accessible text, Paul Bennett delivers a novel and much sought-after approach to clinical psychology: lifespan perspective.

Pilates for Runners is a valuable resource filled with mat Pilates exercises designed for runners of all abilities.