The Running Athlete

The Running Athlete
Author: Gian Luigi Canata
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3662650649

This book explores running in a broad range of sport disciplines, providing a full spectrum coverage on this extremely important and commonly diffused activity. The volume opens with basic information, such as biomechanics, physiology, training principles, nutrition and then presents discipline-specific aspects of running in several individual and team sports. Each chapter is structured organically to offer a uniform and thorough information. For each sport, the authors examine biomechanical, physiological and training specificities as well as injury epidemiology and preventive measures. Filling a gap in literature, this book appeals not only to sports physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, trainers, coaches, fellows, and researchers but also to athletes in the various disciplines. Written in collaboration with ESSKA, it provides a useful toolkit to those readers interested in the state-of the-art update on the running athlete.

Athlete Learning in Elite Sport

Athlete Learning in Elite Sport
Author: Natalie Barker-Ruchti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 135161780X

Elite athletes lead a particular way of life, which creates significant learning and shapes their selves. This is the first sociological-pedagogical text to conceptualise athlete learning in elite sport and across athletic careers. It outlines theories of learning and argues for a cultural perspective capturing contextual influence, temporal changes, individual dispositions, and subjectivity. Presented in three parts—landscaping elite sport and theorising athlete learning; showcasing athletes’ learning in elite sport; and informing research and practice—the book features nine international, multi-contextual, and multi-experience case studies of athlete careers, experiences, and learning across individual and team sports such as boxing, rugby, basketball, hockey, and gymnastics. This is fascinating reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in sport organisations, sports coaching, coach education, and sport sociology and pedagogy.

The Youth Athlete

The Youth Athlete
Author: Brian J. Krabak
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323983197

The Youth Athlete: A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care includes topics that provide the most comprehensive and holistic understanding of the youth athlete. The foundation of the book focuses on the growth and development of the athlete from child to adolescence, balancing their physical, mental and emotional needs. The middle sections expand on this foundation, concentrating on common injuries and illnesses as well as unique topics (e.g., Female, Athlete Triad, Sports Specialization). Final sections emphasize specific sports (e.g., Soccer, Basketball, eSports), allowing the reader to synthesize the previous information to assist with return to play decision-making. Written from a scientific perspective and incorporating evidence-based medicine into its content, this book is perfect for health care practitioners of varied specialties. The complete and comprehensive structure of the book will clearly distinguish it from all other textbooks on the market. - Covers diverse topics that reflect our current understanding of youth athletes and issues related to their care - Incorporates evidence-based approach, highlighting the latest state-of-the-art information and research - Written by global content experts throughout the sports medicine field

Running Throughout Time

Running Throughout Time
Author: Roger Robinson
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-05-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1782558837

Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atalanta, the heroic woman runner of ancient Greece—when goddesses advised on race tactics—to the new legends of Billy Mills, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Allison Roe (the modern Atalanta), this book brings the greatest runners back to life. It's the perfect runner's bedside storybook. Colorful, dramatic, alive with human insight and period detail, these stories are also full of new discoveries. Within these pages, you will find the true story of Pheidippides and the Battle of Marathon; you will read text from the world's first newspaper report of a footrace (1719). This book uncovers important evidence of the first road races, the origins of cross-country running, and the earliest marathons, telling the true story of the origins of the marathon and just why racers must run exactly 26 miles, 385 yards (42.2 km). New light is thrown on more modern stories like the first fourminute mile and the troublesome birth of the women's marathon. All runners should read this book to really know whose footsteps they run in and why running is worthy of the effort they give to it.

The Dynamics of Modern Rugby

The Dynamics of Modern Rugby
Author: Bruce Davies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1000369951

The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game. The contributors to this book consider the physical, mental and nutritional demands of the game in its present form and how best to acquire these attributes in the most effective and efficient manner. The inevitable injuries that are associated with collision are considered in terms of prevention and the most effective forms of treatment. New concepts to improve exercise capacity, game preparation and recovery are discussed in conjunction with the modern coaching theories of the game. The possible changes to the rules are discussed by two outstanding International referees, and the future vision for World Rugby is outlined by the President of World Rugby. The Dynamics of Modern Rugby is both a unique and contemporary addition to the rugby literature and, as such, is essential reading for any student, researcher, coach, sports scientist, physiotherapist, nutritionist or clinician with an interest in rugby.

Introduction To Becoming and Remaining RugbyFit

Introduction To Becoming and Remaining RugbyFit
Author: James Andrew Haskell
Publisher: James Haskell Health and Fitness Ltd
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0995544603

As a professional rugby player and renowned athlete, James is widely known for his elite athleticism and commanding physique. As such, it would be fair to say James Haskell knows a thing or two about getting and keeping fit, as well as preparing to play rugby.Since the beginning and the publication of his very first blog, James's mission has been to provide clear, concise information to help both aspiring male and female rugby players, as well as general fitness enthusiasts, to achieve their health and fitness goals.There is an awful lot of information in this book, which equally applies to a number of other sports, aside from rugby, as well as general training advice.At the very heart of James Haskell Health & Fitness exists a burning passion for rugby. Like no other sport, rugby tests all elements of true fitness: speed, strength, power, agility, balance, endurance and co-ordination. These sit alongside all of rugby's other core ethics and values; such as teamwork, unity, working for each other, respecting the referee, the opposition and leaving everything on the field of play.James has been inundated with requests from people all over the rugby world to provide specific rugby focused training, fitness and nutritional advice well, now he has answered the clarion call.

Running

Running
Author: Ema Volavola
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1664104879

RUNNING tells the story of a single mum, a solo parent who with two children in tow left the shores of Fiji bound to Sydney Australia in the hope of a better life. Her journey takes you through her challenges from when she was a child into her adult life. She shares the consequences of the choices she has made in life. Consequences that she had to make right. Pregnant at 21 with her first child and alone in New Zealand, she took on the task of raising this child with the help of family in Sydney Australia. Because of her family’s Christian values, abortion was out of the question. Adoption was the only option. An option that she chose not to go along with but rather keep and raise the child herself. Now a solo mum she moved back to Fiji and met a man who would soon become the father to her second child and guardian to her first. The relationship ended after 11 years. Determined to give her children the best life that they deserved, she chose to go back to school. Four years later she graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Liberal Studies degree from the University of Sydney. Today, this woman and her children now walk in the blessing because of her choices. Walking with Jesus is a choice and the blessings that come with that decision will be revealed in her next book titled, WALKING. This is her story.