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Somaesthetics and Sport brings together a diverse set of explorations into the embodied experience of watching and playing sport. Sport can at once be a source of sensual beauty and pleasure, and also of pain and anguish; spectators can both celebrate and glorify athletes, but also expect certain forms of behaviour, and intentionally or otherwise police the movements of their bodies; sport and physical exercise can improve our health and increase the self-awareness of our abilities and limitations, but they also help us to shape our sense of what it means to live a good life.

“The stand-out moments in Wolverine history that will motivate not only those who follow the Maize and Blue but any college sports fanatic.” —Jacob Smith, sports editor, Daily TimesOver the past century, the Wolverines have created heroes and legends that excite both the young and old. From the first football game in 1879 to the hundreds of thousands of faithful fans that cheer on the most triumphant program in college football history, University of Michigan football has an undeniable legacy.In Michigan Motivations: A Year of Inspiration with the University of Michigan Wolverines, authors Cyle Young and Del Duduit relive the most famous moments and show readers how they too can overcome adversity, find success, understand true teamwork, and much more. A year's worth of weekly stories will motivate and inspire, showcasing legendary players like Tom Harmon, Anthony Carter, Desmond Howard, Charles Woodson, and Tom Brady. Along the way, readers will also appreciate the Wolverine persistence that drove a 1934 team MVP to become the 38th President of the United States, and they will learn to apply that same Michigan character in their own life.Michigan Motivations is for every fan that bleeds Maize and Blue. Rejoice at the stories that reveal come-from-behind victories, sigh at surprise losses, and scratch your head at how Ohio State went to the Rose Bowl in 1974.“In Michigan Motivations, you'll be challenged to live like a champion at home, at work, and at play. These 52 moments in Michigan football history will not only inspire your mind, they will challenge your heart.” —Gary Rose, former Michigan football player, class of 2001

Mentale Stärke entsteht durch den Einklang zwischen Sein und Handeln, zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit, zwischen Wollen und Tun.Spitzensportler müssen Experten für mentale Stärke sein und sie leben uns vieles vor, was sich auf das Berufsleben übertragen lässt: Sie zeigen uns, dass sich mit vollem Einsatz, harter Arbeit, Motivation, Ausdauer und Disziplin Ziele erreichen lassen. Und dass es sich lohnt, Niederlagen schnell zu verarbeiten, wieder aufzustehen und erneut an den Start zu gehen. Es geht beim Sport um Erfolg und Leistung, aber auch um Freude und Spaß an dem, was man tut. Denn Glück und Zufriedenheit sind die Basis für Erfolg – und nicht umgekehrt.Die Autorin, Antje Heimsoeth, trainiert (Spitzen-) Sportler, Profimannschaften, Bundestrainer, Führungskräfte, Vorstände und Unternehmen.

Over the past several years, both coaches and athletes have started to realize that strength, speed, and other athletic skills are not sufficient for the production of championship athletes. Athletic performance has three parts: physical preparation, technical skill, and psychological readiness. This model suggests that if any of the above areas are neglected, athletic performance will decline. However, psychological preparation is the component that is most often neglected by athletes and coaches alike. Presently, the field of sports psychology and performance enhancement is growing exponentially. However, the sources of information related to the field are extremely limited. This book provides relevant insight into the field of sport psychology.

A description of the ways in which sport, exercise and fitness affect human psychology and development from before birth to old age. The contributing authors cover psychological attitudes to fitness, environmental factors, adolescent identity and moral development.

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports. Through the prism of behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology, they reveal the hidden influences and surprising cues that inspire and derail us—on the field and in the stands—and by extension, in corporate board rooms, office settings, and our daily lives. In this irresistible narrative romp, Wertheim and Sommers usher us from professional football to the NBA to Grand Slam tennis, from the psychology of athletes self-handicapping their performance in the boxing ring or the World Series, to an explanation of why even the glimpse of a finish line can lift us beyond ordinary physical limits. They explore why Tom Brady and other starting NFL quarterbacks all seem to look like fashion models; why fans of teams like the Cubs, Mets, and any franchise from Cleveland love rooting for a loser; why the best players make the worst coaches; why hockey goons (and fans) would rather fight at home than on the road; and why the arena t-shirt cannon has something to teach us about human nature. In short, this book is an entertaining and thought-provoking journey into how psychology and behavioral science collide with the universe of wins-and-losses, coaching changes, underdogs, and rivalry games.— Boston Globe, Best Books of 2016, Sports

Die Bedeutung mentaler Faktoren im Sport gilt als unbestritten; das Schlagwort «Mentale Fitness» findet insbesondere im (Hoch-)Leistungs-, aber auch im Freizeitsport zunehmend Verwendung. Dieses Werk richtet sich an alle aktiven Tennisspielerinnen und Tennisspieler, die ihre mentale Fitness verbessern wollen – egal, auf welchem Leistungsniveau sie Tennis spielen. Die wesentlichen Aspekte werden anschaulich und praxisnah auf den Punkt gebracht. Diese Neuauflage enthält zudem viele praktische Übungen zur Steigerung der individuellen mentalen Fitness. Das Werk basiert auf den Ergebnissen wissenschaftlicher empirischer Forschung und langjähriger Erfahrungen des Autors in der sportpsychologischen Beratung von Tennisspielerinnen und Tennisspielern aus dem Nachwuchs- und professionellen Bereich.

I welcome you to the 2014 accepted writings of Athletic Insight. The ordering of papers does not match with the sequence in which they were released. Rather, I chose to do something a little different in this, my final year as Editor and Chief of Athletic Insight. What the reader finds in this most recent compendium of Athletic Insight writings is nineteen papers, beginning with the most recently accepted as parts of the Autumn, 2014 edition of the journal. Afterward, I reordered the remaining accepted papers so that they made the whole of the book more coherent to the readership. Briefly, there were a significant number of papers submitted to Athletic Insight from India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Sweden, Norway, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Several of these papers were screened out even before they were sent out to editorial board members or guest reviewers for a thorough peer evaluation. Those that were deemed acceptable were then farmed out to scholars well versed in the various topics submitted to the journal. The topics submitted spanned coaching, motor learning and sport psychology intersections, youth sport, elite amateur sport, professional sport, cultural sport psychology, and various aspects relating to exercise psychology. This diversity in subject matter confirms what I have always known – that Athletic Insight is inclusive and open to a breadth of topics, critical scholarship, and emerging and contentious issues pertinent today within the sphere of sport and exercise psychology. To me, the centerpiece of this successful compendium is found within the first seven chapters. These pieces were invited by the editor to provoke thought within the domain regarding the challenges associated with professional accreditation in sport and exercise psychology. Indeed, these pieces reflect current traction relation to accreditation evidenced in the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and the International Society of Sport Psychology. These two worldwide societies are seeking to consider how we might better accreditation within the global domain, taking into account commonalities across countries and also uniqueness and diversity. To my knowledge, there is no recent series of accepted papers where international authorities engage in dialog and share their views relating to how one might proceed with modern accreditation, how to stimulate continuing education, what to do in order to integrate cultural safety within certification, and current trends in accreditation.

„Machtkonflikte? Ham‘ we‘ nich‘“, so die geschlossene Aussage aus dem Lehrerzimmer. Dies ist erstaunlich, bedenkt man, dass laut Experten der Machtkampf in der Erziehung von Kindern und Jugendlichen sehr verbreitet ist. In der sportdidaktischen Literatur finden sich nur sehr wenige Quellen, die sich explizit mit dem Thema Machtkampf beschäftigen. Allgemein scheint dies daran zu liegen, dass es sich hierbei um ein Tabu-Thema bei Pädagogen handelt: Machtkämpfe hat man einfach nicht. Das Phänomen Machtkampf oder Machtkonflikt ist in der Sozialwissenschaft bereits als Teil einer Konflikttheorie von H. Messmer dargestellt worden und wird in diesem Buch auf den Sportunterricht übertragen. Doch auch in sportwissenschaftlichen Texten finden sich Andeutungen darüber, dass Unterrichtsstörungen sich zu Machtkonflikten entwickeln können. Daher sollten Lehrer, laut der sportwissenschaftlichen Literatur, bemüht sein zum einen Machtkämpfe grundsätzlich zu vermeiden und zum anderen, wenn dies nicht möglich ist, eine möglichst akzeptable Lösung für beide Seiten zu finden. Wie derartige Lösungsmöglichkeiten aussehen können, wurde bisher nicht erforscht, es kursieren lediglich präventive Tipps. Daher verfolgt diese Studie die Forschungsfrage: Wie entstehen Machtkämpfe im Sportunterricht und welches Lehrerverhalten kann in einem Machtkonflikt einen glimpflichen Verlauf und Ausgang ermöglichen? Um auf diesen bisher unerforschten Bereich der Sportwissenschaft ein erstes Licht zu werfen, werden Daten durch Experteninterviews mit fünf Sportlehrern eines Gymnasium erhoben und mit Bezug auf bestehende Literatur und angrenzende Untersuchungen ausgewertet.

The present compilation marks the fifth consecutive year that Athletic Insight has teamed with Nova Science on the development of a compendium of writings from the journal. This year's contributions feature a series of international scholars from Canada, the United States, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Norway, and Israel. Upon review of these submissions, one also finds an interesting turn on the part of the journal – that more than half of the submissions are from outside of North America. More broadly speaking, submissions were received from five continents, excluding the Arctic and Antarctica. Dissect the submissions further and you will recognize several senior authors within these submissions, including Ronnie Lidor, Craig Wrisberg, Diane Gill, David Lavallee, Theodore Butryn, Tatiana Ryba, and several more. Personally, I am quite excited by the series of authors and diversity in topic matter found in this compendium. I dare say that this year's compendium is the strongest offered by Athletic Insight to date. On behalf of the publisher and the editorial staff, I hope you enjoy the chapters that follow. What follows is a brief review of the contributions found in this compendium and then the accepted publications from 2013. Robert Schinke, EdD, Editor of Athletic Insight Canada Research Chair in Multicultural Sport and Physical Activity

Written by an eminent group of international experts this volume presents a comprehensive summary of the most recent advances in the psychology of sport and exercise. The volume is divided into two sections. Section I focuses on conceptual advances and covers role perceptions in sport (Chapter 1) and the link between identity and disability sport (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive discussion of personality-trait-like individual differences in athletes. Chapter 4 presents a life-span approach to promote physical activity. The impact of group cohesion on sport and exercise has been summarized in Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 concentrates on the maintenance of physical activity. Section II contains chapters that focus on the link between well-being, sport and exercise (Chapter 7-9). Chapter 10 focuses on the effects of a single wheelchair sports session on cognitions and behavior followed by a comprehensive review of the psychological stress in volleyball (Chapter 11).

Sports psychology is a relatively young discipline within psychology. Contemporary sports psychology is a fast growing and diverse field. Hence, the objectives of this timely, comprehensive, and authoritative volume is to bring together an eminent group of international experts to provide an overview of the most recent developments in the psychology of sports. This volume comprises nine chapters: The initial chapter provides the reader with the definitions, topics and trends within the psychology of sports. This chapter is followed by an overview on current research in sports officiating and decision-making. Chapter three provides an in-depth discussion of simple heuristics in sports. Chapter four and five are focused on the issues of transformational leadership and assessing leadership styles of coaches. Chapter six provides an insight into the socially and highly relevant topic of sport fans'willingness to consider anonymous acts of aggression. Chapter seven recognizes the significant impact of achievement motive in sports. Chapter eight and nine provide an insight in to the interface of sports psychology and psychopathology discussing eating disorders among male athletes as well as the types of coping strategies as predictors for the development of psychosomatic disorders among athletes after career termination. This book has been written in a style to attract the attention of scholars and students who hopefully consider it readable, enjoyable and informative.

This book provides a forum for discussion of topics that are relevant to the field of sport psychology. The subjects covered will include theory, research, and practice of sport psychology, as well as social issues related to the field of athletics. Topics discussed include a primer on the development of SEP in North American vs. Europe; comparing the effects of different self-instructions on thought and content and tennis performance; technical fouls predict performance outcomes in the NBA; sports-related pain; moderators of the links between shyness and gold performance; and the athlete life quality scale.

Expanded and updated throughout, the fourth edition explores America s love of sport just as it reveals sport s darker side-the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding. A new prelude draws students into the book by looking at the multiple levels (individual, organized, and professional) and meanings of sport. An entirely new chapter examines children s play and the emergence of adult-centered play as the primary sport experience of children with some undesirable consequences. Other chapters incorporate new information on the participation of women and minorities in coaching and management, new data on the economic inequalities that pervade sports, new information on the ties between businesses and college sports, and new developments in the global recruiting of coaches. Eitzen draws his examples of famous and lesser-known events from professional, college, and school sports, including depictions of well known coaches and players, to give us a deeper understanding of what sport means to us and how it affects our everyday world. Ideal for sparking classroom discussion, the first three editions were widely read and enjoyed by students of sociology of sport, American society, and other courses.

'In this fourth edition, Orlick provides new insights and a powerful step-by-step plan for you to develop your own personal path to excellence.''You'll learn to focus for excellence and high-quality living. You'll gain a more positive outlook, a more focused commitment, better ways of dealing with distractions, and strategies for overcoming obstacles. You'll also achieve greater personal and professional satisfaction and discover better ways to work with teammates, respond more effectively to coaching, and become more self-directed in your thoughts and actions.'--BOOK JACKET.

Sport and Exercise Science is a groundbreaking new textbook for first year students.

Psychological preparation is now recognised as being of key importance in improving sports performance. This book describes performance profiling methods used by coaches and psychologists and exercises and assessments are presented in an accessiblestyle. Although based on practical experience, the text is firmly rooted in research. It is therefore an innovative and authoritative book that can be used at both professional and amateur level.Sports performers continually endeavour to excel at what they do and to break records. Their search for new and innovative techniques which might enable them to achieve these aims is unceasing. This book offers accessible and practical guidance on anincreasingly important and proven approach - the use of mental processes to enhance physical performance. It is now recognised that psychology has a key role in sports, not only in improving performance, but also in helping sportsmen and women attain asense of mastery of their discipline. The book explores the important characteristics in top sporting performance and illustrates techniques and exercises designed to assist athletes reach their potential. It should be an essential part of any serioussports performance preparation. • Very practical, easy to use, clearly presented • Based on a model of psychology which emphasises the importance of understanding the performer's view • All techniques rigorously tested at an elite level'This isa book for everyone interesteed in individual sports performance. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.'- Brit. Assoc. of Sports Sciences News, April 1996