Sports training and coaching

We all like to prove people wrong who say were no good, says the eternally driven Steve Spurrier, the 1966 Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback who took off his helmet, put on his coaching visor, and turned three downtrodden universities into winners.

Adventure Education is a form of experiential learning typically associated with activities involving risk, from cooperative games such as raft building to high adventure activities such as rock climbing.

Divided into nine parts, Leisure Marketing: a global perspective guides the reader through leisure and marketing concepts, the marketing mix, key issues in different sectors, topical issues (such as globalisation, marketing research and ethics, for example branding and environmental issues), and the future of leisure marketing.

A key title in the successful Complete Guides series, this is the definitive text on using free weights for strength, conditioning and flexibility training.

Social exclusion is one of the most pressing challenges in post-industrial societies, encompassing economic, social, cultural and political dimensions.

Ein Buch aus dem neuen Wissenschaftsgebiet der Sportpsychiatrie, das aufrüttelt: Während bislang vorwiegend körperliche Verletzungen sportmedizinisch beachtet wurden, dringt nun mehr und mehr ins Bewusstsein, dass auch äußerst erfolgreiche Sportler psychische Probleme haben.

Research methods courses have become a compulsory component of most degree programs in sport management.

Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader's understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management.

Training Disabled People is the only book to provide fitnessprofessionals with detailed guidance on working with disabled clients.

This text explores the attentional processes of athletes using a theoretical framework derived from contemporary cognitive psychology.

'Inspirational' - ObserverA transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older.

This book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.

Students often learn better on their feet than in their seats, and this powerful book helps you make the most of that in the classroom.

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

From the breakout star of Netflix's Cheer, a motivational and inspiring guide to becoming a champion in all areas of life.

Movement variability in soccer training is the new approach to enhancing practice and developing players' movement adaptabilities and creative play on the field.

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

This book takes an in-depth look at the economics and finance of professional team sports, with a strong focus on applied analysis and performance measurement, to enable students, researchers, and practitioners to develop their professional knowledge of contemporary sport business.

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in today's rapidly changing media environment.

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being.

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The fifth edition of Introduction to Exercise Science introduces students to every core area of study in the discipline.

Contemporary sport business is international.

Jack Nicklaus set a record for most career victories in major championships, capturing a total of eighteen between 1962 and 1986, including six Masters wins.

What are cultural centers for?

This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of the sport shutdown on all levels of society.

The pandemic has taught us all how important it can be to look after our physical and mental health, and how worthwhile it is to invest in taking care of ourselves.

Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal.

This book describes how, as a species our survival and capacity to flourish depends on realizing the intimate relationship of humans with nature through active, embodied participation with nature.

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology integrates the topics of motor control, physical education, exercise, adventure, performance in sports, and the performing arts, in several important ways and contexts, drawing upon diverse cultural perspectives.

Based on the popular 101 Youth Netball Drills titles, this is a practical training manual for netball coaches, packed with drills, coaching tips and advice for building a netball club.

Artists are creative workers who drive growth in the creative and cultural industries.

Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place.

This book highlights the latest advances in coach education and development through collaborative research co-ordinated by the English Football Association, the only national governing body of sport to run a coaching research programme.

This book explores how physical education (PE) can be best enacted in primary schools in order to optimise children's wellbeing.

The World Cup 2018 saw a record 66 goals scored from set-piece situations (42% of the 155 total goals scored), a remarkable and emphatic statement regarding the influence of set-pieces on the modern game.

Setting a common international agenda for physical education, this book asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to changes in today's fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport is a comprehensive text that underscores the importance of learning and context for those who sculpt the environment in which people of all ages develop in and through sport.

Baseball is one of the few truly global sports.

As the woman who trained the great Best Mate to win three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups, no one could be better qualified than Henrietta Knight to discover what makes today's top jumps trainers succeed.