Trends in Human Performance Research

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Duncan; Mark Lyons

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Series: Sports and Athletics Preparation, Performance, and Psychology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The topic of human performance has grown dramatically in recent years and draws on a range of academic disciplines including Physiology, Biomechanics, Psychology and Nutrition. This book presents recent research in the field that provides a bridge between scientific knowledge and the practitioner in human performance. This book covers topics such as the efficacy of exercise training to enhance human performance, the cognitive impact of performance tasks, nutritional interventions that influence performance, predicting human performance from anthropometric variables and examining the impact of specific physiological and environmental factors that influence the performance of daily tasks.

✦ Subjects

Sports -- Physiological aspects.; MED075000

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