Sport and Exercise Science (Active Learning in Sport)

✍ Scribed by Joanne Thatcher, Rhys Thatcher, Melissa Day, Matthew Portas, Simon Hood

Publisher: Learning Matters
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

"Sport and Exercise Science introduces students to the essentials of the major contributing disciplines - biomechanics, physiology, and psychology. It combines detailed exposition of each subject area with explicit advice on how to study effectively, research further and think critically. Case studies help to relate theory to practice and learning exercises help readers to extend and assess their understanding. This Read more...

Content: Introduction --
Understanding research --
Planning research --
Positivist research --
Interpretative research --
Motivation in sport and exercise --
Stress, anxiety and emotions --
Group dynamics --
Exercise psychology --
Nutrition --
Skeletal muscle --
Cardiovascular system --
Describing motion and quantifying kinetics --
Analysing motion and quanifying kinematics --
A multidisciplinary approach to sport and exercise science.
Abstract:

Whatever areas of Sport and Exercise Science students are studying, this will be the resource they turn to first and return to most often. Read more...

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