"Sport and exercise psychology is a rapidly expanding field both academically and professionally. Aidan Moran provides the first textbook to combine an explanation of the theoretical foundations of sport and exercise psychology with critical reviews of contemporary research and …
"The text is designed to help clinicians learn how to motivate and educate patients on how to incorporate regular exercise into their daily lives. The central focus is on how to help patients become motivated and stay that way. It covers how to design practical exercise programs…
"You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much? Why can't you stay with a reasonable exercise program? It's your moods!" "The causes of obesity and lack of exercise can be traced to unprecedented increases in stress, depression, and anxiety. People are working more, sleep…
You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much? Your moods! Why can't you stay with a reasonable exercise program, and why is obesity at epidemic proportions in our society today? Negative moods hold the explanations. Feeling down? Wish you had more energy and less stress?…
Robert Thayer shows how unprecedented stress in society and epidemic levels of depression have led people to food as a poor means of managing mood. In this original approach, Thayer describes how people's daily energy and tension variations occur, and how this knowledge helps ov…
"Calm Energy" analyses broad psychological and biological issues concerning eating and exercise by focusing on the crucial nexus of mood. It discusses such topics as mood-controlled eating, the influence of mood on exercise, and the influence of exercise on mood, and gives an ex…