Sports training and coaching

The fully revised third edition of the popular Foundations of Sports Coaching textbook aims to provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the practical and theoretical principles that underpin the sports coaching process, from both a participation and performance perspective.

Psychology for Dancers: Theory and Practice to Fulfil Your Potential examines how psychological theory can be related to dance practice.

Much is known about the physical strain that athletes' bodies are subjected to and the dangerous aspects of competition immediately spring to mind.

Twitter, Facebook, online forums, blogs and websites - scholars are increasingly turning to digital sources to study sport and physical activity.

Looking for a way to shed stubborn fat, or wondering why your current exercise programme isn't helping you slim down?

How to use math to improve performance and predict outcomes in professional sportsMathletics reveals the mathematical methods top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance, and gives math enthusiasts the practical skills they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports-and maybe even gain the outside edge to winning bets.

How to Effectively and Efficiently Build Muscle Mass and Muscle ForceIn this informative as well as practical book based on the latest integrative muscle research, Marco Toigo, PhD, describes which factors are crucial to successfully build muscle mass and muscle force through resistance training.

This book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the ways in which the Games served the city.

Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces.

The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level.

Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer.

Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods.

Based on the well-known, long-running You Are the Ref football feature, illustrated by legendary artist Paul Trevillion and written by former international referee Keith Hackett, this guide is aimed at established, trainee, and newly qualified football referees.

Safeguarding should be a central concern for any sports organisation working with children or young people.

Fully updated, revised and consolidated into one single volume, the fourth edition of Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology offers the best theoretically contextualised, practical resource for instructors and students available.

Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research, teaching, or practice.

FUN AND EFFECTIVE SOCCER DRILLS-FROM AN EXPERIENCED COACH IN THE SPORTSoccer is an exciting sport, but it is even better when your team is playing at its best.

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

Strength training is a complex task calling for a comprehensive knowledge of the physiological basis of muscle contraction as well as the principles of strength training and the different methods used.

Are children playing less than they used to?

This book offers both sport psychology practitioners and sport athletes a clear understanding of mindfulness to help athletes optimize sport performance.

This book discusses the diverse array of aquatic life of Indian waters, including rivers, lakes, and coastal regions.

This is the definitive book for fitness professionals, coaches and sportspeople using or supervising the use of heavy weightsHeavy weights are very popular in gyms but there is a lack of supervision and good instruction.

'I'd love to do a marathon, but I don't have six days a week to train' 'I'm too old/unfit/overweight to run 26 miles, aren't I?

No single instructional method can meet all of the student learning needs expressed in the SHAPE America National Standards for Physical Education.

Understanding and applying psychology within youth sport settings is key to maximising young athletes' enjoyment, wellbeing, and sporting performance.

What is play?

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.

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.

Taoist Wisdom to Inspire, Empower, and Lead in Sports & Life.

Designed specifically for players aged 12 to 16, this manualcontains a wide range of progressive practice drills to help youngplayers develop.

The cycle of emotions, like few other phenomena, can significantly influence our performance in sports.

This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research.

Over the past fifteen years, there has been a great increase in the knowledge of eating disorders in sport and effective means of treatment.

This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).

The International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, held every four years under the aegis of the International Society of Biomechanics and the World Commission of Sports Biomechanics, provides a forum in which research related to swimming is reported and problems that confront swimming practitioners are debated.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industry sector, from youth and intercollegiate sport to professional leagues.

Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching 'difference' in Sport and Physical Activity.

Analytical Psychology and Sport: Epistemology, Theory and Practice introduces the epistemology and psychology of C.

This book offers an ultimate clinical guide to all the medical issues related to  triathlon - a very popular Olympic and international sport, and the most modern of all the endurance activities.

This important new volume brings together recent research by leading international ergonomists and sport and exercise scientists.

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

Children and Exercise XXVIII presents the latest scientific research into paediatric exercise physiology, endocrinology, kinanthropometry, growth and maturation, and youth sport.

The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge.