Introduction to all aspects of human movement
This updated edition introduces readers to key concepts concerning the anatomical, mechanical, physiological, neural and psychological bases of human movement
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Sport Psychology and Exercise Psychology.
The importance of recovery programmes in sport
This new book presents techniques and modalities currently used to enhance athletes’ recovery, optimize training time and avoid overtraining.
A unique opportunity to hear the world’s top rugby union experts
Talent Identification and Development The Royal Society, 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1y 5AG Friday 17th to Sunday 19th May 2013 The RFU is hosting a ground-breaking Talent Symposium. This unique event will involve debate amongst 15 of the World’s leading experts in the field of sporting talent, 12 eminent panellists and rugby stakeholders, to reach a consensus that will have a profound impact on understanding and practice relating to the identification and development of talented rugby players. On 18 May the same experts, including Professor Joe Baker, Professor Jamie Timmons, Dr Stephen Cobley, Dr Jotg Shorer, Professor Mark Williams, Professor Bruce Abernathy, Professor Keith Davids and Dr Ross Tuckerfrom will be presenting on the identification and development of talent as part of a parallel education programme. This group of experts has never before been assembled in one place.
Effects of multiple concussions in contact sports
Unlike most musculoskeletal injuries, concussions are invisible (i.e., no swelling, stitches) injuries and often there is no timeline for recovery.
It’s not the taking part it’s the winning that counts
Two-thirds of parents believe that cheating by high profile sportsmen and women is adding to the pressure on young people to copy them.
Team membership boosts performance
Individual performance, enjoyment, anxiety and effort are greater in team competitions than in individual events
ECSS 2013 Unifying Sport Science
This year’s ECSS Congress is being held in Barcelona from Wednesday 26th to Saturday to 29th June. The 2013 event seeks to help sport science make its own leap forward towards an understanding of ourselves not as part of a technical world but as interacting parts of an indivisible whole: nature. Human Kinetics will once again have stand at the 2013 ECSS Congress and will feature a large range of new and bestselling books covering all that is relevant in the field of sports science. We look forward to seeing you there. Find out more
The effects of exercise on mood and mental health
Learn the biological foundations of exercise psychology