Sport and Exercise Science /
Joanne Thatcher, Rhys Thatcher, Mel Day, Matthew Portas and Simon Hood.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (263 pages)
- Active Learning in Sport Series .
- Active Learning in Sport Series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding research -- 3. Planning research -- 4. Positivist research -- 5. Interpretative research -- 6. Motivation in sport and exercise -- 7. Stress, anxiety and emotions -- 8. Group dynamics -- 9. Exercise psychology -- 10. Nutrition -- 11. Skeletal muscle -- 12. Cardiovascular system -- 13. Describing motion and quantifying kinetics -- 14. Analysing motion and quantifying kinematics -- 15. A multidisciplinary approach to sport and exercise science -- Bibliography and references -- Index.
Whatever areas of Sport and Exercise Science students are studying, this will be the resource they turn to first and return to most often.