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Sport and Exercise Science (Active Learning in Sport) PDF

240 Pages·2009·3.516 MB·English
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"Sport and Exercise Science introduces students to the essentials of the major contributing disciplines - biomechanics, physiology, and psychology. It combines detailed exposition of each subject area with explicit advice on how to study effectively, research further and think critically. Case studies help to relate theory to practice and learning exercises help readers to extend and assess their understanding. This is the most concise and most supportive text ever published for students of SES in higher education."--Back cover. Read more... Content: Introduction -- Understanding research -- Planning research -- Positivist research -- Interpretative research -- Motivation in sport and exercise -- Stress, anxiety and emotions -- Group dynamics -- Exercise psychology -- Nutrition -- Skeletal muscle -- Cardiovascular system -- Describing motion and quantifying kinetics -- Analysing motion and quanifying kinematics -- A multidisciplinary approach to sport and exercise science. Abstract: Whatever areas of Sport and Exercise Science students are studying, this will be the resource they turn to first and return to most often. Read more...
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