The Psychology of Strength and Conditioning
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 October 2011
- ISBN 9780415574082
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
This is the first book to examine the importance of psychological factors in strength and conditioning and to offer a comprehensive overview of current research, theory and best practice. Written by a team of leading international researchers and practitioners, it looks at how psychology influences training and performance and how training can influence an individual?s psychological well-being. Throughout, evidence-based research is combined with discussion of the practical issues facing athletes, coaches and sport science professionals. This book therefore, represents invaluable reading for all advanced students, researchers, trainers and sport scientists with an interest in strength and conditioning or sport psychology.
MoreLong description:
An effective strength and conditioning program underpins the training regime of every successful athlete or sportsperson and it is now widely recognized that psychology plays a significant role in the application of strength and conditioning principles. This is the first book to examine the importance of psychological factors in strength and conditioning and to offer a comprehensive overview of current research, theory and best practice.
Written by a team of leading international researchers and practitioners, the book looks at how psychology influences training and performance and how training can influence an individual?s psychological well-being. It explores a range of key topics in contemporary sport psychology and athletic training, including:
- mental skills training
- behaviour change
- psychology in professional practice
- psychological problems, including exercise dependence, eating disorders and steroid use.
Throughout, the book combines evidence-based research with discussion of the practical issues facing athletes, coaches and sport science professionals. By firstly developing our understanding of the latest psychological skills and techniques used by athletes and coaches to maximize strength and conditioning training and performance, and then the ways other psychological factors influence, and are influenced by, strength and conditioning training, this book represents invaluable reading for all advanced students, researchers, trainers and sport scientists with an interest in strength and conditioning or sport psychology.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction 1. Mental Skills Training and Strength and Conditioning 2. Social Psychological Theories and Models 3. Perceptual Monitoring in Strength and Power 4. Exercise, Self-Esteem, and Self-Perceptions 5. Resistance Training and Mental Health 6. Exercise Dependence 7. Drive For Muscularity 8. Eating Disorders in Sport 9. The (Ab) Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids 10. Professional Development in Strength and Conditioning Coaches
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