"One of the greatest changes in the sports world during the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results. This book presents a concise but thorough introduction to the analytic and statistical …
Ayuda a los estudiantes a apreciar las consecuencias de las fuerzas externas, cómo el cuerpo genera fuerzas internas para mantener la posición y cómo las fuerzas crean el movimiento en las actividades físicas. Este título también ofrece un enlace a un recurso web adjunto que inc…
Helps students learn to appreciate the consequences of external forces, how the body generates internal forces to maintain position, and how forces create movement in physical activities. This title also offers a link to an accompanying web resource that includes all of the prob…
"Find your endurance advantage in the foods you eat Endurance Sports Nutrition will help you select the best foods, fluids, and supplements to train longer, recover more quickly, avoid injuries, and achieve your performance goals in any endurance endeavor. Complete with customiz…
Fathering through sport and leisure
Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as sepa…
Covers the topic of sports and music from the ancient to the post-modern.
Ntoumanis and Myers have done sport and exercise science researchers and students a tremendous service in producing An Introduction to Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Analyses for Sport and Exercise Scientists. This book has an outstanding compilation of comprehensible cha…
Sport, coaching, and intellectual disability
"There are more opportunities than ever before for young people with disabilities to participate in sport and adapted physical education. For example, there are more than 3.7 million athletes worldwide aligned to the Special Olympics organisation, with national associations acti…
Sports videogames
"She Can Coach! is both an invaluable guide for current female coaches and a superb manual for the next generation of female mentors. This book presents the experiences and insights of 20 top women coaches from 13 different sports." "Each chapter addresses a key factor in guidin…
My Life at the Gym brings together essays, poems, and personal narratives of women's experiences in gyms, dance studios, and outdoors. This diverse collection points to an important part of women's everyday experience--exercise and fitness--often ignored by feminists within a nu…