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Sport Psychology for Young Athletes

Sport Psychology for Young Athletes

Understanding and applying psychology within youth sport settings is key to maximising young athletes’ enjoyment wellbeing and sporting performance. Written by a team of leading international researcher-practitioners this book is the first to offer an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of sport psychology for children and young athletes. It provides practical strategies and guidance for those working in or researching youth sport demonstrating how to integrate sport psychology effectively in a variety of youth sport contexts. With real-life case studies that demonstrate psychological theory put into practice it discusses a wide spectrum of issues faced by young athletes and recommends the best approaches to addressing them. Key topics covered include: the cognitive social and physical development of young athletes optimising fun motivation and self-confidence enhancing young athletes’ relationships with coaches parents and peers managing stress injuries and transitions effectively developing talent and long-term engagement in sport encouraging organisational culture change. The most up-to-date and authoritative guide to sport psychology for young people this is essential reading for anyone working in youth sport. | Sport Psychology for Young Athletes

GBP 42.99
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Mental Skills for Athletes A Workbook for Competitive Success

Mental Skills for Athletes A Workbook for Competitive Success

Mental Skills for Athletes: A Workbook for Competitive Success is a step-by-step guide for developing a toolbox of mental skills. In this user-friendly workbook Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt compiles materials from over 35 years of experience as a performance psychologist working to achieve competitive excellence creating the go-to resource for athletes and coaches in any sport and at any level. The book includes succinct easily understood explanations of key mental skills based on the science of performance excellence. It discusses both cognitive and physical skills to ensure competitive success covering a range of topics including focus confidence resilience mindfulness motivation role clarity problem solving team values and strategic goal setting. Shoenfelt includes over 25 different exercises to ensure the reader can readily apply these skills across a variety of sports and across all levels of competition from high school to Olympic athletes. Worksheets encourage a hands-on approach and provide structure to guide the appropriate implementation of mental skills for each athlete. Examples of completed worksheets help demonstrate to the reader how to best utilize these resources. This book is essential for early career sport psychology practitioners across the globe as well as aspiring graduate students. The book is an invaluable resource for coaches and athletes at all levels. | Mental Skills for Athletes A Workbook for Competitive Success

GBP 28.99
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Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes Science and Application

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes Science and Application

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. Fully revised and updated this second edition draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete. With 20 new authors and 8 new chapters the book explores every key topic in strength and conditioning applied to young athletes including: Growth and maturation Talent identification and talent development Monitoring and assessment Coaching young athletes Motor skill development Strength development and plyometrics Speed and agility development Metabolic conditioning Mobility and flexibility Periodisation and nutritional strategies Injury prevention and wellbeing Developing a holistic programme for young athletes. Written by a team of leading international strength and conditioning experts and paediatric sport scientists the book includes expanded practical guidelines in every chapter to show how the latest scientific research can be applied by coaches to optimise young athletic potential. Including sample training programmes and exercises throughout this is an essential resource for all students of strength and conditioning or paediatric exercise science as well as any coach and athletic trainer working with children and young people. | Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes Science and Application

GBP 44.99
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Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport

Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport

While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture’s binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable inclusive and equitable. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender politics identity and ethics.

GBP 39.99
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The Seven Practices of Mentally Superior Athletes Harnessing Skills from Sport Psychology

The Seven Practices of Mentally Superior Athletes Harnessing Skills from Sport Psychology

Once athletes reach the highest levels of competition in college and professional sports the mental aspect of the game becomes increasingly vital to performance. The Seven Practices of Mentally Superior Athletes is a short and snappy reference text intended for repeated use that explains the importance of the mental side of the game and offers concise advice for improvement. Wald outlines the most important sport psychology skills in a way that can be easily understood and applied to athletes regardless of what sport they play. It also features illustrative stories that demonstrate exactly how these skills can be applied on the field court course or arena. This book is particularly helpful to busy athletes with demanding lifestyles. It will also be useful for coaches who want to continue their education and learn more about sport psychology and how to implement these mental training habits with their athletes. | The Seven Practices of Mentally Superior Athletes Harnessing Skills from Sport Psychology

GBP 16.99
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Sports Medicine for Coaches and Athletes Soccer

Sports Medicine for Coaches and Athletes Soccer

This book is a practical guide and concise sports medicine reference written exclusively for the sport of soccer. Based on Adil Shamoo's notes from years of coaching teaching and lecturing on the subject this succinct handbook approaches soccer from a unique scientific perspective. The experiences of Dr. Shamoo and coauthors William Baugher a sports medicine orthopedist and Robert Germeroth a physical therapist combine to make the latest sports medicine research relevant and accessible to those who participate in the sport. Coaches referees players parents and athletic trainers from grade school through college will find the authors' knowledgeable discussion of soccer injuries to be an invaluable resource for prevention and treatment. Sports retailers pediatricians and professionals in the field of sports medicine will also appreciate the book's comprehensive coverage of the physical mental and nutritional aspects of playing the game of soccer the world's most popular sport. | Sports Medicine for Coaches and Athletes Soccer

GBP 130.00
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Coaching Masters Athletes Advancing Research and Practice in Adult Sport

Coaching Masters Athletes Advancing Research and Practice in Adult Sport

This book is a foundational resource for all coaches and student coaches who are or who plan to be working with Masters athletes. This athletic cohort typically includes adults over the age of 35 years who are registered for sport programs/events and who invest in training to improve themselves for competitions that range from recreational to championship caliber. As the boom in Masters sport continues worldwide coaches are increasingly tasked with the development and support of adults’ quality sport experiences and the implementation of strategies to foster skill acquisition and to facilitate their pursuit of competitive goals. This book presents what is different about coaching Masters athletes and prompts coaches to expand their scope of practice beyond traditional knowledge associated with youth or younger adult cohorts. It is essential for coaches to understand the psychological and social considerations that are unique to coaching adult sports-persons and Masters athletes and that can be adapted to adults whose training and preparation for competition is quite varied. Coaching Masters Athletes: Advancing Research and Practice in Adult Sport explores the research and practice specific to planning to coach Masters athletes and divulges what is known about distinctive considerations for delivering coaching interventions to this cohort expanding on coaches’ abilities to influence adults’ personal development as well as their own coach education through Masters Sport. Readers and students of Coaching Physical Activity Health Psychology Sport Leadership and Exercises Science will gain valuable applied perspectives grounded in best practice research on how to coach one of the fastest-growing sporting cohorts to promote quality adult sport and to keep adult sports-persons engaged and active as they age. | Coaching Masters Athletes Advancing Research and Practice in Adult Sport

GBP 38.99
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Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

Mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness Acceptance Commitment (MAC) are gaining momentum with sport psychology practitioners who work to support elite athletes. These acceptance-based or third wave cognitive behavioral approaches in sport psychology highlight that thought suppression and control techniques can trigger a metacognitive scanning process and that excessive cognitive activity and task-irrelevant focus (self-focused attention such as trying to change thoughts) disrupts performance. Using this perspective the aim of sport psychology interventions is not to help the athletes engage in the futile task of managing and controlling internal life. Rather it suggests that sport psychology practitioners should work to increase athletes’ willingness to accept negative thoughts and emotions in pursuit of valued ends. Key aspects of such interventions include: teaching athletes to open up and accept teaching athletes to mindfully engage in the present moment and helping athletes formulate the values and engage in committed actions towards these values. The goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport: How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure then is to provide students researchers practitioners and coaches of sport psychology with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. This book brings together highly experienced practitioners and shares their working methods exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession. | Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

GBP 38.99
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Treating Athletes with Eating Disorders Bridging the Gap between Sport and Clinical Worlds

Treating Athletes with Eating Disorders Bridging the Gap between Sport and Clinical Worlds

This book provides readers with concrete tangible tools for treating athletes with eating disorders by discussing issues that are unique to this population and introducing specific ideas to help facilitate recovery among this population. Dr. Bennett integrates her experiences in sport and mental health to provide a comprehensive resource for all healthcare providers who support athletes with eating disorders. Traditional sport psychology interventions are translated into clinical action to help therapists align with the athletic identities of individuals recovering from eating disorders. From diagnosis and neurobiology to athletic identity and excellence this book covers a range of topics to help readers build their own toolboxes of creative and clinically sound psychological interventions. This comprehensive guide provides professionals who are new to the field with essential knowledge pertaining to the treatment of eating disorders and offers experienced healthcare providers insight on treatment aspects that are unique to working with athletes. | Treating Athletes with Eating Disorders Bridging the Gap between Sport and Clinical Worlds

GBP 29.99
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Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially. However with no dedicated mixed methods research design textbook in this domain students have struggled to conduct research projects involving a mixed methods research design. Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment provides a useful research methodology resource for students academics and researchers across various disciplines in the built environment such as construction management and project management property and real estate management quantity surveying and commercial management building surveying building services engineering civil and geodetic engineering and other built environment disciplines. The book can also be useful for students and academics outside the built environment knowledge domain. This textbook offers practical and step-by-step guidance on how to apply mixed methods research design including an elucidation of the various philosophical and methodological underpinnings upon which the choice of a particular variant of the mixed methods research design is predicated. It provides practical case examples and guidance on the processes involved to design and undertake mixed methods research the advantages and disadvantages of using mixed methods research and how multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative data can be combined and applied to carry out research projects.

GBP 42.99
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Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Winner of the 2020 IDEC award Homelessness and the Built Environment provides a practical introduction to the effective physical design of homes and other facilities that assist unhoused persons in countries identified as middle- to high-income. It considers the supportive role that design can play for unhoused persons and other users and argues that the built environment is an equal partner alongside other therapies and programs for ending a person’s state of homelessness. By exploring issues trends and the unique potential of built environments this book moves the needle of what is possible to assist people experiencing trauma. Examining important architectural and interior architectural design considerations in detail within emergency shelters transitional shelters permanent supportive housing day centers and multi-service complexes such as space planning choices circulation and wayfinding visibility lighting and materials and finishes it provides readers with both curated conclusions from empirical knowledge and experienced designers’ perspectives. Homelessness and the Built Environment is an imperative and singular reference for interior designers architects and building renovation sponsors design researchers and students forging new discoveries and policy makers who seek to assist communities affected by homelessness. | Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

GBP 31.99
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Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear concise easy-to-read format. This book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social cultural ecological and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of the book is themed around the origins principles and frameworks of sustainable design aimed at inspiring a deeper broader and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry adaptation and resilience health and well-being. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global urban district building and human scale illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span the context of time space and varied perspectives. This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative coevolutionary model for sustainable design. By allowing the reader an insightful look into the history motivations and values of sustainable design they begin to see sustainable design not only as a way to deliver green buildings but as a comprehensive and transformative meta-framework that is so needed in every sector of society. Supported by online resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.

GBP 46.99
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Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers ‘see’ subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to analyze designs before they are built this new edition brings readers up-to-date on scientific tools relevant for assessing architecture and the human experience of the built environment. The new edition includes: Over 100 full color photographs and drawings to illustrate key concepts. A new chapter on using biometrics to understand the human experience of place. A conclusion describing how the book’s propositions reframe the history of modern architecture. A compelling read for students professionals and the general public Cognitive Architecture takes an inside-out approach to design arguing that the more we understand human behavior the better we can design and plan for it. | Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

GBP 39.99
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Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students is a step-by-step guide to get students through their final year research project. Trusted and developed over three previous editions the new fourth edition shows you how to select a dissertation topic write a proposal conduct a literature review select the research approach gather the data analyse and present the information and ultimately produce a well-written dissertation. The book simplifies dissertation research and writing into a process involving a sequence of learnable activities and divides the process into three parts. Part One covers the necessary groundwork including: identifying the problem writing a proposal and reviewing the literature. Part Two covers the research design and includes: approaches and techniques for data collection and constructing and sampling a questionnaire. Part Three covers: measurement of data analysis of data with SPSS structuring and writing the whole dissertation and supervision and assessment. This new edition is packed with updated examples and research samples making this the ideal resource for students involved in research in built environment subjects such as construction management construction project management facilities management real estate building surveying quantity surveying and civil engineering.

GBP 36.99
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Esports in Higher Education Fostering Successful Student-Athletes and Successful Programs

Esports in Higher Education Fostering Successful Student-Athletes and Successful Programs

This comprehensive resource examines the rapidly-growing esports phenomenon in higher education bringing the perspectives of players administrators and scholars together in one volume to discuss the basics of esports how to start and maintain successful esports programs and issues and trends in the field. Esports are a global phenomenon with an estimated audience of 400 million people in 2018. Given their already strong base and rising popularity on college campuses esports have been referred to as the new college football. This book offers practical insights into how to develop and maintain an esports program that is consistent with institutional purposes and values. The book is helpful to all types of institutions (small to large public and private 2-year or 4-year). It draws on current scholarship and the professional experience of the authors focused heavily on practical advice for higher education professionals. Among the challenges of esports in higher education the book addresses are competition structure competition climate child protection cheating gambling lack of reliable relevant data to inform decisions and the advent of an esports arms race. Some of the opportunities described in the book include student recruitment and success networks with high schools and partnerships with the esports industry. Done correctly esports can provide a structured way for all students (on campus off campus and online) to engage in both curricular and cocurricular programming that can provide measurable learning outcomes and have a positive impact on retention rates. | Esports in Higher Education Fostering Successful Student-Athletes and Successful Programs

GBP 29.99
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Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving planning designing funding constructing occupying and managing the built environment to face the challenges and grasp the opportunities that lie ahead over the next few decades. Four major themes form the basis of the volume: (1) Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place. (2) Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership. (3) Innovation Reform and Exemplars. (4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations. Within these structural themes are a diverse range of 'Discourses' addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today – whether by organisations individuals cities or communities – to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students practitioners agencies and corporations across the built environment especially in the fields of urban planning real estate development architecture civil engineering and construction. | Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

GBP 34.99
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Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition before during and after training or a sporting event can improve the comfort energy and performance of athletes of all levels from elite to recreational as well as providing long-term health benefits. Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance offers a clear practical and accessible guide to the fundamentals of sport and exercise nutrition. The expert authors begin by explaining key principles including understanding energy systems exercise physiology and metabolism. They cover the basics of digestion absorption and nutrition; examine the key macronutrients and micronutrients essential for performance; and discuss the process of dietary assessment. Part 2 goes on to explore in detail nutrition for pre- and post-training hydration the use of supplements and body composition and provides guidance on developing plans for both individual athletes and teams. The final component examines specific nutrition issues and special needs including working with elite athletes strength-and-power athletes young older and disabled athletes endurance sports GI disturbances and rehabilitation issues. Cultural issues are also explored including diets for vegan and vegetarian athletes and religious perspectives and requirements. Featuring contributions from a range of sport and exercise nutrition professionals and including practical diet plans diagrams and the latest research and evidence throughout this is a core reference for undergraduates nutritionists and trainers. | Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

GBP 39.99
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Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. The need for life cycle assessment to inform environmental design within the built environment is critical due to the complex range of materials and processes required to construct and manage our buildings and infrastructure systems. After outlining the framework for life cycle assessment this book uses a range of case studies to demonstrate the innovative input-output-based hybrid approach for compiling a life cycle inventory. This approach enables a comprehensive analysis of a broad range of resource requirements and environmental outputs so that the potential environmental impacts of a building or infrastructure system can be ascertained. These case studies cover a range of elements that are part of the built environment including a residential building a commercial office building and a wind turbine as well as individual building components such as a residential-scale photovoltaic system. Comprehensively introducing and demonstrating the uses and benefits of life cycle assessment for built environment projects this book will show you how to assess the environmental performance of your clients’ projects to compare design options across their entire life and to identify opportunities for improving environmental performance. | Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

GBP 44.99
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i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

The conference presented a multidisciplinary interactive forum to researchers students academicians industry professionals policymakers and scientists focusing on three key tracks namely Architecture and Built Environment Planning and Practices and Design and Society. Presenters shared experiences research results and scholarly contributions and discussed the practical challenges encountered and solutions to be adopted. The selected contributions are enclosed within the proceedings. | i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

GBP 38.99
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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers project managers academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects the book addresses some key themes challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking organisational and individual identity storytelling and narration. The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as ‘innovation’ and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today. | Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

GBP 44.99
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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region. As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic the future trajectories for living environments city-making processes and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners positioning the Arctic as a dynamic diverse and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban architecture and landscape systems and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic. This is a unique resource for researchers creative practitioners policymakers and community decision-makers as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

GBP 35.99
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Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure is an essential resource on improving sporting performance in high-pressure situations. Perry’s work guides coaches and athletes through nine key elements of the sporting mindset to help athletes to perform at the highest standards even under the most pressurized of situations. This valuable read includes empirically-based advice on areas such as embracing competition; building confidence concentration and focus; maintaining emotional control; learning from and coping with failure or injury; being braver; and being able to push harder. Perry also provides 64 strategies to support each sporting mindset offering not just the evidence as to why they work but exactly how to implement them. This book uniquely offers those supporting athletes a toolkit of sport psychology strategies and interventions in a way that is evidence-based accessible and engaging whether you are starting out studying sport psychology on a sports science course or are a coach of many years' standing for both elite and amateur athletes. | Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

GBP 19.99
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The World Anti-Doping Code Fit for Purpose?

The World Anti-Doping Code Fit for Purpose?

Following the recent doping scandals that have brought the highest echelons of international sport into disrepute this book examines the elitism at the core of the World Anti-Doping Agency and considers how the current World Anti-Doping Code might be restructured. Analyzing the correlation between the commodification of sports and doping and the role WADA plays in this context it takes into consideration the perspectives of non-elite athletes as well as athletes from developing countries which have previously been excluded from the anti-doping discourse. It offers recommendations for improving the coordination and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code and argues for the creation of a more inclusive anti-doping regime. This is an important resource for students of sports law sports management and sports ethics as well as vital reading for sports administrators sports sociologists sports policy makers sports lawyers and arbitrators as well as athletes themselves. | The World Anti-Doping Code Fit for Purpose?

GBP 38.99
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Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

Balancing training stress and recovery is essential for achieving optimal performance. The performance of professional athletes can be severely compromised by overtraining injuries prolonged periods of competition or even life events outside their sporting lives. The current recovery-stress state depends on preceding stress and recovery activities but through simultaneous assessment of stress and recovery a differentiated picture can be provided. This manual includes two measurement instruments to gauge individual recovery enabling both athletes and coaches to better understand the often-unconscious processes that impinge upon peak performance and to monitor the physical mental emotional mental and overall recovery-stress state before and after training. The Acute Recovery and Stress Scale (ARSS) and the Short Recovery and Stress Scale (SRSS) are instruments that systematically enlighten the recovery-stress states of athletes. Through utilization of the ARSS and the SRSS athletes and coaches can better understand the importance of daily activities including how they can relate to stress/recovery and the direct impact on athletic performance. In addition to the instruments themselves both of which are simple and easy to use the manual also discusses their development their basis in theory and case studies showcasing their usage. The ARSS and the SRSS provide important information regarding the current recovery-stress state during the process of training and are essential tools for coaches sport scientists sport psychologists and athletes alike. | Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

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