Sports and Active outdoor recreation

It was 1976 when Leon and Michael Spinks first punched their way into Americas living rooms.

Dieses Buch soll Studierende als auch Doktoranden motivieren, eigene Studien mit dem richtigen Untersuchungsdesign zu planen und durchzuführen.

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

Updated through the 2012 Olympics.

Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike?

Best Easy Day HikesCincinnati includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes.

With Tenkara, there is no reel and the line hitched directly to the end ofthe long rod, imparting an element of highly functional simplicity.

Walking into the wilderness with a pack on your back is an empowering experienceall the more so when that pack on your back isn't weighing you down.

Hundreds of valuable tips and advice based on Justin Lichter's more than 35,000 miles of hiking across the country and beyond.

This guide to nearly 100 public campgrounds in the state of Pennsylvania is perfect for tent and RVcampers alike.

Its not necessary to travel far from home for a great hike.

Best Bike RidesPhiladelphia describes 40 of the greatestrecreational rides in thePhiladelphia area, including road rides, rail trails, bike paths, and single-track mountain bike rides.

Sports are big business.

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, generating close to 230 million Tweets per day.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film.

This book compares two major leisure activities - watching sport and engaging with art.

This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

This book provides an account of the use of computational tactical metrics in improving sports analysis, in particular the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data in soccer.

This book gathers papers presented at the 2019 Movement, Health & Exercise (MoHE) Conference and International Sports Science Conference (ISSC).

The risk of athletes sustaining concussion while participating in professional team sports raises two serious concerns both nationally and internationally.

Ideas are ubiquitous.

This book introduces the structure, economic arguments, and business strategies for entrepreneurship in sport.

This book introduces the ultimate performance analysis tool (uPATO) as a new software to compute social network metrics in the scope of team sports analysis.

This book provides an overview of biomedical applications in sports, including reviews of the current state-of-the art methodologies and research areas.

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.

The term chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has recently gained a significant amount of media coverage.

Sports coaching is a social activity.

Trust is a fundamental concept in modern society.

How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity?

Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women's lives in the modern world.

Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives.

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.

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders-home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls-is where it first came to national prominence.

Basketball: A Guide for Physical Education Teachers and Coaches is a valuable resource for those beginning to teach the sport or even seasoned coaches looking for a fresh approach to the game.

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports.

You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts.

The history of hockey is filled with the bizarre, the unexpected, and the hard to believe.

Some would argue that professional football became America’s premier sport through a slow, painstaking evolution starting with the 1920 formation of a fourteen-team circuit that became the National Football League.

Lessons learnt for over 35 years from the battlefield of soldiering to the hidden battlefield of life.