This is an examination of the major sports and the physiological demands of each presented by an international group of sports scientists. It will serve as a reference for sports physicians, physical educationalists, exercise physiologists, coaches and researchers.

The International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, held every four years under the aegis of the International Society of Biomechanics and the World Commission of Sports Biomechanics, provides a forum in which research related to swimming is reported and problems that confront swimming practitioners are debated.
This volume contains the papers presented at the sixth symposium. The keynote addresses covered lactate metabolism, performance determining factors and the analysis of sprint swimming. The contributed papers range widely across sports science, coaching and...

Based on the First World Congress on Science and Racket Sports, held in Merseyside in July 1993, this book discusses such topics as: the physiology, biomechanics and psychology of racket sports; fitness in these sports; racket sports equipment; sports medicine; and match analysis.

The field of sports ergonomics is now recognised as an interdisciplinary area in its own right. This book forms the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics, providing a particular focus on disabled athletes, health and fitness educations and sports equipment.

The Third World Congress of Science and Football was held in Cardiff, Wales in April 1995. The aim of the conference was to continue to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of the various branches of football and increase the awareness of the value of a scientific approach to these games. These aims and the outcomes of the conference are reflected in this volume.