Performance Assessment for Field Sports

ISBN-13: 9780415426848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 222 str.

Christopher Carling;Thomas Reilly;A. Mark Williams

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This is the first book dedicated to the assessment of performance in field sports such as soccer, rugby, hockey, and lacrosse. It provides detailed and clear information about the laboratory and field-based methods that can be used to assess and improve both individual and team performance, from basic physiological assessment to the use of video and information technologies.

Field sports players should be competent across a range of specific parameters, all of which can now be accurately assessed by the sports coach and sport scientist.

Performance Assessment for Field Sports, the first guide designed specifically for assessing athletes in field sports, describes and carefully explains the relevant criteria – from the athlete’s basic physiology, strength and fitness to their decision making abilities, co-ordination and fine motor skills, to their individual sport skills, strengths and weakness in the team context.

Bridging the gap between sport science expertise and field sports in practice, this book represents cutting edge applied sports science and shows how to use concrete information to help improve athlete and team performance. It covers:

• explanations of the latest feedback, tracking and video technologies
• evaluations of the usefulness of different types of assessment from a coaching perspective
• how an athlete’s potential, as well as their performance, can be measured
• techniques for use both in the laboratory and on the field.

O autorze

Carling, Christopher; Reilly, Tom; Williams, A. Mark