New PDF release: Health and Elite Sport: Is High Performance Sport a Healthy
By Joe Baker,Parissa Safai,Jessica Fraser-Thomas
ISBN-10: 0415708664
ISBN-13: 9780415708661
ISBN-10: 1138695270
ISBN-13: 9781138695276
Health and Elite Sport is the 1st publication to seriously study the connection among participation in excessive functionality activity and healthiness results. Drawing on idea and empirical information from quite a lot of disciplines, together with sociology, developmental psychology, epidemiology, and actual schooling, the publication explores the advantages and detriments of participation in elite recreation for either contributors (athletes, coaches, spectators) and communities.
Written by way of a crew of top foreign activity researchers, the ebook examines key concerns including:
- Talent identity and younger athletes
- Abuse in sport
- Positive adolescence improvement via sport
- Athlete well-being during times of transition
- Health, game and the family
- Health in specialist sport
- The Olympics, Paralympics and public health
- Long time period results of participation in elite sport
Highlighting the connections and contradictions among excessive functionality recreation and overall healthiness, the booklet additionally discusses the transparent and critical implications for our socio-cultural, political and developmental figuring out of recreation. Health and Elite Sport is attention-grabbing and critical examining for all scholars and researchers with an curiosity in early life activity, activities improvement, activity coverage, activities training, workout and health and wellbeing, actual schooling, the sociology of activity, or the sociology of health.
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