Sport Exercise and Environmental Physiology

ISBN-13: 9780443073588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str.

Reilly; Thomas Reilly; Jim Waterhouse

Opis

This thorough book collates the relationships between exercise and the environment into one efficient volume. The aim of this text is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the environmental influences that impact the individual when exercising or competing in sport. The main environmental factors are considered, and the physiological reactions to discrete environmental stresses are described and methods of adaptation or coping are explained.

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: Environmental exercise physiology

1. Exercise and the environment - an ergonomics approach
2. Exercise in the heat
3. Exercise in the cold
4. Altitude stress and hypoxia
5. Underwater sports
6. Space
7. The traveling athlete
8. Air quality
9. Noise
10. Living and exercising in hostile environments