Routledge handbook of elite sport performance

"The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating in different societies, living in the system as a per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Collins, Dave, editor (editor), Cruickshank, Andrew, editor, Jordet, Geir, editor
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2019
Colección:Routledge international handbooks
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Defining, delineating and driving elite performance
  • The principles of elite coaching : blending knowledge, experience and novelty
  • Being the personal coach
  • Being the national coach in an Olympic sport
  • Coaching a national team in professional football
  • doing it week in, week out
  • Coaching in action/adventure sports : a novel challenge
  • Specialist coaching : coaching quarterbacks in NFL, college and high school
  • Developing the players of tomorrow
  • physiology : working in endurance
  • Strength & conditioning in the elite team sport environment
  • Performance analysis : working in football
  • Working with psychology in professional football
  • Keeping them on the pitch
  • Medical practice with elites athletes
  • Effective performance support : an integrated view
  • Interdisciplinary performance development in elite sport : applied sport science
  • Using data in football
  • Research and innovation : seeking and securing competitive advantage
  • Culture, leadership and management with elites
  • Developing elites : academy systems
  • Supporting performance : a national institute perspective
  • The performance director's role
  • Leading a national system
  • Managing a professional football club
  • Managing impressions and relationships when speaking to the sports media
  • Fitting within the social milieu
  • Vive la difference : perspectives on the challenges of being a woman in high level sport
  • Developing coaches and players around the globe
  • The coach nomad
  • The transition to elite performance : societal contrasts in the same sport
  • The new kids on the block
  • Staying at the top in Olympic rowing for 25 years
  • Playing home and away and away and away
  • Life and sport : making it happen and progressing while you play
  • Driving the performance system : does research help?
  • Working in the jungle : how should elite sport practitioners operate and be developed?
  • Creating long-term high performing teams.