Sports training and coaching

Nutritional Ergogenic Aids provides an up-to-date review of what is hypothetical and what is known about the most extensively used nutritional ergogenic aids; dietary supplements to enhance physical and athletic performance.

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics.

The Complete Guide to Abdominal Training replaces Abdominal Training 2nd edition.

Why is performing under pressure often so difficult?

The safeguarding of children and young people participating in sport has become an increasingly prominent concern in policy-making and research communities around the world.

Play for Health Across the Lifespan uses case studies to explore the impact of play and creativity on health and wellbeing throughout the lifecycle.

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.

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

Individual achievement in sport is often constrained by an athlete's age relative to the peers with whom they participate.

The ultimate pain-to-personal-best guide to running injuries, covering prevention, detection and rehabilitation.

Interpersonal coordination is an important feature of all social systems.

In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change.

What does it really take to make the podium?

First published in 1997.

Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch.

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 timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activity, and discusses how sport, and society, can move forward beyond the gender binary, in both theory and practice.

First published in 1997.

In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Science and Soccer is still the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the physiology, biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport.

How do the world's best athletes combat ageing, and what you can do to keep up?

Positive Pedagogy is an athlete-centred, inquiry-based approach that transforms the way we understand learning and coaching in sport.

How do winning streaks work?

Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some.

Now in its fifth edition, The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice is the ideal resource for undergraduate courses devoted to the study of exercise behavior.

In the decades following the American Civil War, reformers championed the explosion of public gymnasiums and fitness centres in cities all across the country.

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.

In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century.

Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture.

This is the first book to focus on participatory research in the context of sport and physical activity.

Fully illustrated with depictions of proper exercise technique, this book contains exciting strength training programs based on sport (e.

Contemporary strength and conditioning coaching is, for the most part, informed by the exercise sciences, with little engagement being made with sociocultural and pedagogical perspectives which have emerged in sports coaching research over the last two decades.

Das Denken über den Leib verändert sich innerhalb der Epoche der Aufklärung und besonders in der philanthropischen Bewegung.

A step-by-step approach to problem-solving techniques using SPSS in the fields of sports science and physical education Featuring a clear and accessible approach to the methods, processes, and statistical techniques used in sports science and physical education, Sports Research with Analytical Solution using SPSS emphasizes how to conduct and interpret a range of statistical analysis using SPSS.

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement.

A revised and updated second edition of the popular Complete Guide to Nordic Walking.

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

Athletes' Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource.

Sport and those who run it have an important duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young participants.

Our bodies are designed to move.

Exercise interactions with green and blue spaces offer low-cost, non-invasive solutions to public health challenges-particularly around mental health and obesity-and issues around environmental sustainability.

The ultimate 'one stop' guide to training with suspended body weight training devices.

Feel great, look good and live well with this simple home fitness and healthy eating plan.

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries.

Aus einer sportdidaktischen Perspektive geht Katja Schönfeld der Frage nach, wie sich kognitive Aktivität von Schülerinnen und Schülern im Sportunterricht charakterisiert.