Continuous Improvement
Intertwining Mind and Body in Athletic Expertise
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 November 2021
- ISBN 9780198852261
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156x8 mm
- Weight 368 g
- Language English 170
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Short description:
How is it possible for world-class athletes who are already at the top of their game to keep improving? This book addresses this puzzle by presenting a theory of “continuous improvement”, exploring the psychological and physical processes behind advancing elite performance.
MoreLong description:
How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau?
Commentators and spectators alike are fascinated by how athletes such as Roger Federer, Tom Brady, and Serena Williams are capable both of moments of exquisite brilliance and of sustaining such excellence over a prolonged period. But what separates these great athletes from those who have achieved a certain level of expertise before finding that their performance has started to plateau? How is it possible for world-class athletes- athletes who seem to be at the top of their game- to keep improving?
To solve this puzzle, this book presents a theory of “continuous improvement” that explains how experts use conscious strategies to update and improve motor execution in training contexts and stabilise performance under highly pressurised conditions. It argues that expertise is characterised by an attentional flexibility involving the use of reflection, abstract thought, and bodily awareness; processes used by athletes to alter bodily routines in response to contextual demands. Drawing on theory and empirical findings from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, and cognitive science, the authors outline methodological approaches and practical strategies that can be used by coaches, researchers, and athletes to understand, improve, and maintain optimal levels of performance.
A fascinating exploration into the psychological and physical processes behind elite performance, this book will be an insightful read for students and academics of sport science, sport psychology, and kinesiology, as well as coaches, practitioners working with performers, athletes, or anyone with an interest in physical performance and improvement.
Continuous Improvement explores all the facets of athletic expertise and is a terrific read for a wide range of readers, from scholars and academics to coaches and sports performers. One of the many triumphs of this book is its seamless ability to demystify and clearly reveal how performers manage to maintain and develop expertise aka 'continuous improvement'— a phenomenon whereby performers appear capable of continuously improving their skills even after they have become experts.
Table of Contents:
The phenomenology of continuous improvement
Habit and skilled action
Is optimal performance really 'mindless'?
Deliberate practice
Cognitive control
Bodily awareness during skilled action
Aesthetic awareness in athletics
Exploring the orthogonal relationship between controlled and automated processes
Practical and methodological considerations
Explaining continuous improvement
