Athlete’s clock, The
- How biology and time affect sport performance
Autor(es) - Thomas Rowland
- €25.84 €23.26
The Athlete’s Clock: How Biology and Time Affect Sport Performance offers an engaging, interdisciplinary consideration of some of the most compelling questions in sport and exercise science. This unique text takes a broad look at the physiological clock, offering students, researchers, coaches, and athletes a unique approach to understanding how various aspects of time affect sport performance.
The Athlete’s Clock explores the ways in which time and its relationship to athletic effort can optimize sport performance. Readers can investigate challenging questions such as these:
_ If physiological responses to training vary rhythmically throughout the day, what is the optimal time of day for training?
_ If a coach thinks that a high stroke count leads to a better time in a particular swim event, should the athlete go with it? Or is it better to stick to a more intuitively normal cadence?
_ Do endurance athletes consciously control their pacing, or are they under the control of unconscious processes within the central nervous system?
_ In what ways do aging and rhythmic biological variations over time control athletic performance?
_ Can athletes use cognitive strategies to subdue or overcome limits imposed by biological factors out of their control?
ÍNDICE:
Chapter 1. Who’s in charge here? Setting the race pace
Chapter 2. Marching to the same drummer: cadence in endurance events
Chapter 3. Dragsters, tiger beetles, and Usain Bolt: time and speed
Chapter 4. Circadian rhythms and sport performance
Chapter 5. It’s all in the timing: keeping your eye on the ball
Chapter 6. Peaks and valleys: the development of athletic skill - a conversation with Bob Malina
Chapter 7. Over the hill: aging and sport performance
- Formato: Capa mole 18.00 * 25.50
- Nº de páginas: 232
- Editado em: 2011
- Idioma: Inglês
- ISBN: 9780736082747