Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Sports Psychology

The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States, a global sporting giant with a unique, market-driven sporting landscape.

Presenting an innovative model of integrated sports development, the book explores the inter-relationship between elite and mass sport across history, drawing on comparative international examples from Australia to the...

Sport potentially can teach character as well as social and moral values, but only when these positive concepts are consistently taught, modeled, and reinforced by sport leaders with the moral courage to do so. The seeming moral crisis threatening amateur and youth sport--evidenced by athletes, coaches, and parents alike making poor ethical choices--and ongoing scandals regarding performance-enhancing drug use by professional athletes make sports ethics a topic of great concern. This work enables readers to better understand the ethical challenges facing competitive sport by addressing...

What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introduction to the philosophy of sport uses dialogue a form of philosophical investigation to address the fundamental questions in sport studies and to explore key contemporary issues such as fair play, gender, drug use, cheating, entertainment and identity.

Providing a clear, informative and accessible introduction to the philosophy of sport, every chapter includes current sporting examples as well as review questions and guides to...

What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introduction to the philosophy of sport uses dialogue - a form of philosophical investigation - to address the fundamental questions in sport studies and to explore key contemporary issues such as fair play, gender, drug use, cheating, entertainment and identity.

Providing a clear, informative and accessible introduction to the philosophy of sport, every chapter includes current sporting examples as well as review questions and guides to...

O jogo mental pode ser mais importante no poker do que em qualquer outra forma de competiCAo. E um dos Unicos jogos no mundo, onde vocE pode jogar perfeitamente, e perder repetidamente. Centenas de jogadores de poker se voltaram para a abordagem revolucionAria do treinador de jogo mental Jared Tendler, que os ajudou a jogar o seu melhor, independente de quAo ruins fossem as cartas. Neste livro, vocE encontrarA instruCOes simples, passo-a-passo e tEcnicas comprovadas para corrigir, permanentemente, os problemas como o "tilt," lidar com a variAncia, com o controle emocional, confianCa, medo...

'Why don t young athletes in sport just quit? Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, "Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport" seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.

As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by a worldview of instrumental rationality, the book introduces key ideas from educational philosophy to describe talent development through the concept of elite-Bildung. It pursues an...

An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology--the mental mapping and engineering of their own brains--for peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism, sports, and the rest of us.

Moneyball showed how statistics were revolutionizing baseball. The Sports Gene revealed the role genetics play in sports. Now, Head in the Game examines the next evolution: how mental engineering--the manipulation of the cognitive processes...

The Science of Gymnastics provides the most comprehensive and accessible introduction available to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning performance in artistic gymnastics.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition introduces two new sections--on motor control, and injury prevention and safety--and features contributions from leading international sport scientists and gymnastics researchers. With case studies and review questions included in each chapter, the book examines every key aspect of gymnastic training...

The Science of Gymnastics provides the most comprehensive and accessible introduction available to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning performance in artistic gymnastics.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition introduces two new sections--on motor control, and injury prevention and safety--and features contributions from leading international sport scientists and gymnastics researchers. With case studies and review questions included in each chapter, the book examines every key aspect of gymnastic training...