Event for Sport & Exercise Physicians
The 3rd ECOSEP conference is constituted as a forum to understand and discuss the principles and rationales behind modern treatment methods, applied in Sports and Exercise Medicine.
All posts tagged: Sport Psychology
Sport Psychology and Exercise Psychology.
Social networks use may reduce self-control
Feeling good about oneself after being on facebook can actually have a detrimental impact on behaviour by momentarily lowering one’s ability to say no.
Can testing be useful for both students and teachers?
Testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts.
Coaching success through the application of psychology
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes discusses how to improve coaching success and athletic performance through the application of teaching principles and theories. Delving deeper than simply offering an explanation of what athletes learn and what coaches teach, it provides insight into the principles of psychology that drive the emotions, motivation, expectations, self‐worth and relationships of athletes. Developing coaches gain focus, motivation and guidance as they learn how a thoughtful coach provides the structure and discipline to make athletes more successful. Normal Price: £43.99 I €57.20 HK Rewards Members’ Price: £35.19 I €45.76 Find out more
Meet the HK Bunch at ICSEMIS
Over twenty HK authors are speaking at ICSEMIS and many will no doubt be paying us a visit, so come along and meet the top bananas on Stand One
See you at ECSS
If you are attending next week’s ECSS Congress in Bruges, please make a note to come and visit Human Kinetics on stand 69.
Dai Greene and Redlight
World champion 400m hurdler Dai Greene has teamed up with Dr Costas Karageorghis (Inside Sport Psychology) and music producer Redlight to record his own motivational track to enable him to perform at his peak and hopefully win gold at the forthcoming London Olympics. The BBC News Team joined them in the studio to get an insight in to how it works. You can watch it now on the BBC iPlayer (25 mins 15 secs) – what do you think?
A triathlete’s most important tool is not a physical trait
Regardless of their differing levels of knowledge and experience, success for all triathletes begins with the planning process.