This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these...
A top sports psychologist reveals the nine keys to winning, in sports or business Success in business is often based on the quality of the teams within the business. Even personal success is often based on a person's ability to work well with others. In Why Teams Win, top sports psychologist Saul Miller reveals the nine key factors that...
A new procedure for combined validation of learning models – built for
specifically uncertain data – is briefly described. The procedure, called the queue
validation, relies on a combination of resubstitution with the modified learn-andtest
paradigm. In the initial experiment [Burda and Hippe 2010] the developed...
"Whether your primary interest is popular science or pro football, you will enjoy FOOTBALL PHYSICS." (Bill Belichick, head coach, New England Patriots )
"Football Physics is great fun. It taught me more about football than 50 years of watching the game." (Robert K. Adair, Ph.D., author of Physics of Baseball ) ...
The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season
If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games...
As diverse as tomorrow’s society constituent groups may be, they will share the common requirements that their life should become safer and healthier, offering higher levels of effectiveness, communication and personal freedom. The key common part to all potential solutions fulfilling these requirements is wearable embedded systems,...
WHEN I FIRST started working as a nutritionist in elite sport
over a decade ago, the most common thing I would hear from
athletes was: ‘James, I’m here because Coach says I need to
lose weight.’
Fortunately things have moved on just a little since then.
Nutrition has become an integral part of...
Muscle and Exercise Physiology is a comprehensive reference covering muscle and exercise physiology, from basic science to advanced knowledge, including muscle power generating capabilities, muscle energetics, fatigue, aging and the cardio-respiratory system in exercise performance. Topics presented include the clinical...
The original volume of The Foot and Ankle in Sport by Don Baxter has become a widespread authority on the diagnosis and treatment of athletic injuries to the foot and ankle. It is an ominous task to improve on this text. In fact, our attempt with the second edition is to update the already authoritative text and provide the same authoritative...
Football is probably the most widespread sport in the world. Like many other sports football has undergone major changes. It has increased in intensity, speed, and other factors contributing to increased risks of traumatic injury. Footballers, trainers, and the sport's medical staff are asking for greater information on the traumatic...
Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored, but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation.
Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport...
Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.
SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes...