Sports training and coaching

Case Studies in Sport Communication: You Make the Call goes beyond the box scores by offering readers the opportunity to evaluate popular and diverse issues in sport-including management, crisis, health, ethics, gender, race, and social media.

Awareness of the importance of exercise and physical activity to optimal physical and mental health has never been greater.

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport explores whether high-performance athletes have healthy and prosperous relationships with exercise and well-being after retirement from elite sports.

INTRODUCING THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE BEST-SELLING LITTLE LEAGUE GUIDESPacked with valuable information on how to help their players improve at the plate, this guide takes coaches and parents step by step through: Correct techniques of hittingDevelopmental practice drillsSkills kids need to bat .

In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete is a unique exploration of the vital archetypal elements and themes that emerge when considering elite sportssport psychology through a depth psychological lens.

To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education.

Bringing together the world's leading experts, this multi-disciplinary collection examines both the psychological and physiological dimensions to recovery from sport.

This is the first book to introduce flipped learning in the context of physical education.

How can we use persuasion methods to make people more physically active and improve their sport and exercise experiences?

Psychoneuroendocrinology is the study of the interaction between hormones, the brain and human behaviour.

Guided by the conceptualization of content knowledge, this book covers sports analysis (identification of techniques and tactics), skill analysis (identification of critical elements, observation, evaluation of students' performance through error detection, and interventions), and biomechanical principles and their applications to skill performance and analysis, which teachers or coaches need to possess for effective teaching and coaching.

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances.

Designing Presence offers a unique insight into the training that has helped people around the world to cultivate more presence in both professional and personal settings.

Over the past 16 years, new theories and models have emerged in the stress and anxiety knowledge base regarding the unique forms associated with performance.

What makes a great sport psychologist?

How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield?

The ultimate 'one stop' guide to training with kettlebells.

Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote 'sport for all' and their motives for doing so vary greatly.

'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world.

For the first time, this book applies The Spectrum to sports coaching to become a Spectrum of Coaching Styles.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Transitions in sport can be either normative (relatively predictable) or non-normative (less predictable) and are critical times in the development of athlete's careers.

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies.

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise.

Exercise and Sport Pharmacology is an essential book for teaching upper-level undergraduates or entry-level graduate students about how drugs can affect exercise and how exercise can affect the action of drugs.

Outspoken, honest, game changingultimate soccer insider and legendary coach Bruce Arena looks back on an extraordinary career, and forward to what the United States needs to do to compete successfully on the world stage once again.

'A brilliant new perspective' Jamie Carragher'Superb' Daniel TaylorTHIS INSIGHTFUL INVESTIGATION REVEALS THE MINDSETS AND UNBELIEVABLE APPROACHES OF THE COACHES SEEKING FOOTBALL'S ULTIMATE PRIZE.

Frailty is a clinical syndrome caused by multiple chronic conditions that makes it difficult to maintain homeostasis.

This book explores the consumption behaviour of 'extreme' athletes from a quantitative perspective.

Der Absprung vom Sprungbrett spielt eine Schlüsselrolle für das erfolgreiche Ausführen von Elementen am Gerät Sprung im Gerätturnen.

In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena.

Anyone who has ever competed in a sport, taken an exam, or appeared on stage understands the importance of performing at the right time.

This is the first book to examine trauma research in the context of sport, exercise, and health.

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.

How do migrant youth negotiate their role in society through sport and leisure practices?

Designed specifically for younger players, 101 Youth Rugby Drills is the practice bible for youth rugby coaches.

Five-time Mr.

How can we use persuasion methods to make people more physically active and improve their sport and exercise experiences?

Proper stretching can lead to better health; greater range of motion; and a longer, healthier life.

China's sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of China's two Special Administrative Regions - Hong Kong and Macau - have not received the coverage they deserve either in their historical contexts or since the handovers of control to the People's Republic.

Kanusport mit aufblasbaren Booten auf Flüssen und Seen liegt voll im Trend: Minimales Packmaß, aber maximaler Spaß.

This book explores how medical device integration (MDI) supports quality patient care and better clinical outcomes by reducing clinical documentation transcription errors, improving data accuracy and density within clinical records and ensuring the complete capture of medical device information on patients.

First published in 1990, this reissue contains the papers presented at the First World Scientific Congress of Golf, held at the University of St Andrews.

This broad-ranging resource is for librarians who want to begin a new program or incorporate healthy living into an existing one.

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.