Tennis Medicine

Tennis Medicine
Author: Giovanni Di Giacomo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319714988

This book will serve as a key resource for all clinicians working in orthopedics, sports medicine, and rehabilitation for the sport of tennis. It provides clinically useful information on evaluation and treatment of the tennis player, covering the entire body and both general medical and orthopedic musculoskeletal topics. Individual sections focus on tennis-related injuries to the shoulder, the elbow, wrist, and hand, the lower extremities, and the core/spine, explaining treatment and rehabilitation approaches in detail. Furthermore, sufficient sport science information is presented to provide the clinical reader with extensive knowledge of tennis biomechanics and the physiological aspects of training and rehabilitation. Medical issues in tennis players, such as nutrition and hydration, are also discussed, and a closing section focuses on other key topics, including movement dysfunction, periodization, core training, and strength and conditioning specifics. The expansive list of worldwide contributors and experts coupled with the comprehensive and far-reaching chapter provision make this the highest-level tennis medicine book ever published.

Young People in Canada

Young People in Canada
Author: William Francis Boyce
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Care in Sport Coaching

Care in Sport Coaching
Author: Colum Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1351109294

While it is accepted that sport coaches should safeguard participants, Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases argues that coaches have a duty of care that moves beyond protection and involves the development of caring relationships with athletes. Recent high-profile incidents of abuse in sport highlight the need to reposition coaching as a caring activity and to embed care within coach education and coaching policy. Based around extended case studies, this book provides grounded accounts of how coaches care in their everyday practice. These case studies are analysed using multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives to illustrate and problematise how coaches care. Conclusions are provided, based on these analyses, that will help coach educators, researchers and policy makers establish care as a key facet of everyday sport coaching activities. Additionally, the book offers guidelines that will aid practitioners to enact care in their practice. This is important reading for coaches, researchers, lecturers and students who are concerned with the role of coaches and the development of coaching practice.

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes
Author: Rhodri S. Lloyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1136510591

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for children and young athletes. Drawing upon leading up-to-date research in all aspects of fitness and movement skill development, the book adopts a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete. While other textbooks focus on a single aspect of youth trainability, this book explores every key topic in strength and conditioning as applied to young people, including: talent identification motor skill development strength, power and plyometrics speed and agility metabolic conditioning mobility and flexibility periodization weightlifting myths overtraining and injury prevention nutrition. Written by a team of leading international strength and conditioning experts and paediatric sport scientists, every chapter includes programming guidelines for youths throughout childhood and adolescence to show how the latest scientific research can be applied by coaches to optimize young athletic potential. This is an essential resource for all students of strength and conditioning or paediatric exercise science, as well as any coach or athletic trainer working with children and young people.

Game On

Game On
Author: Tom Farrey
Publisher: ESPN
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

In this fascinating journey into a culture gone haywire, an Emmy-award winning reporter examines what's right and what's wrong with the fevered pursuit of excellence in youth sports.

The Athletic Skills Model

The Athletic Skills Model
Author: René Wormhoudt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 135178210X

The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It places the emphasis on ‘physical intelligence’ – including attributes such as agility, flexibility and stability – through adaptable and varied training programmes, creating a skilled athlete before introducing sport specialization. The book sets out the scientific underpinnings of the ASM before going on to offer practical guidance on the content of the programme, how to adapt and vary the programme, and how to apply the approach to different age groups and sports. The ASM’s application in the youth development programme at AFC Ajax is explored in depth, before a future of talent development with an emphasis on athletic, rather than sport-specific, expertise is imagined. The Athletic Skills Model introduces an important and timely challenge to conventional wisdom in talent development and is a fascinating read for any upper-level student or researcher interested in youth development, skill acquisition, motor learning or sports coaching, and any coaches wanting to refresh their approach to talent development.

Long-term Athlete Development

Long-term Athlete Development
Author: Istvan Balyi
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Athletic Performance
ISBN: 9780736092180

Long-Term Athlete Development offers an in-depth explanation of the long-term athlete development model, an approach to athlete-centered sport that combines skill instruction with long-term planning and an understanding of human development to produce athlete growth.

Talented Teenagers

Talented Teenagers
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521574631

The findings in this book are the results of a monumental five-year study of a group of exceptionally talented teenagers, examining the role that personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Diagrams.