Research in sport has suggested that an athlete’s tendency to either “choke” or “clutch” (give a better than usual performance) depends on his or her personality, as well as on situational influences, such as a reliance on explicit or implicit knowledge when pressured.
Sport risk management is a key component of any sport and recreation programme and to run it successfully entails looking after the safety and well-being of your participants and the need to protect the best interests of your organisation.
Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation: The Essential Guide for Loss Prevention provides all the tools you need in order to design a bespoke comprehensive risk management plan to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Written specifically for sport and recreation professionals by a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in insurance defence litigation, the book combines information on law, insurance and sports to give you a complete view of all of the issues involved in assessing, controlling and financing your risks.
A study comparing images of the knees of people who had and hadn’t suffered injury to their anterior cruciate ligaments, suggests that those who tore their ACLs were more likely to have a smaller ligament than do similarly sized people who have never injured a knee.
Researchers calculated the total volume of the ligaments based on magnetic resonance images of human knees. The ACLs among those with previous injuries were, on average, about 10 percent smaller than were ACLs among those without an injury.
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory presents current research perspectives from major sport scholars and leading sociologists regarding issues relevant to the sociology of sport.
Each chapter explains historical and contemporary social theories and applies them to current topics in sport, such as performance-enhancing drugs, gender, race and identity issues and the role of religion in sport.
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory introduces readers to the historical and theoretical underpinnings of social theory, how sport studies have incorporated or diverged from these theories and how the application of various sociological insights into sport subjects may form the basis for future research.
British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation
Annual Conference
Jury’s Inn, Birmingham,
8th – 9th October, 2009
We would like to remind delegates to previous BACR conferences, that this year’s event is being held on Thursday and Friday and not Friday and Saturday as in other years.
After being used consistently by the Russian military for over 200 years, the Kettlebell has shrugged off its iron curtain image and reinvented itself as the trendiest new fitness tool.
Looking like cannonballs with handles, celebrities love them and it’s not just macho types like Sylvester Stallone and Matthew McConaughey either. The likes of Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Aniston and Geri Halliwell are all fans and even Premier League giants Chelsea and Liverpool have incorporated them into their training regimes
So what is the difference between exercising with a kettlebell and lifting barbells or free weights?
Well, unless you have particular dietary needs, vitamin supplements probably are a waste of money and may even be harmful, a nutritionist told a meeting at the recentBritish Science Festival
Professor Brian Ratcliffe of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen told delegates that most people should simply consume a varied diet containing a number of different vitamins and minerals.
Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance, Second Edition, will help students and practitioners understand the function of the nutrients in the body and how these nutrients affect health and athletic performance.
The authors present clear, comprehensive and accurate nutrition information that may be applied to a variety of careers. The text provides students with practical knowledge in exercise and nutrition science and it keeps practitioners on the cutting edge of current research and practices in the field.
Using the authors’ extensive backgrounds in nutrition, exercise physiology and fitness, the text sorts micronutrients into functional groupings to provide an easy framework for understanding how these nutrients can influence exercise performance and good health for both athletes and active individuals.
This unique presentation allows readers to fully understand why proper nutrition helps athletes prevent injury, enhance recovery, improve daily workouts and maintain optimal health and body weight.
Showering may be bad for your health, say US scientists, who have shown that dirty shower heads can deliver a face full of harmful bacteria.
Tests revealed nearly a third of devices harbour significant levels of a bug that causes lung disease. Mycobacterium avium forms a biofilm that clings to the inside of the shower head, reports the National Academy of Science and levels were 100 times higher than those found in typical household water supplies.
Guernsey’s Heather Watson has made history at New York’s Flushing Meadows by becoming the first British player to win the US Open girls’ singles title since the junior tournament’s inception in 1973.
When she is at home in Guernsey she is rather famous, but of late she has spent more time in the sunshine of Florida at the renowned Nick Bollettieri academy.
Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training shows professionals how to design and implement aquatic rehabilitation and exercise programmes for various groups and individuals of all ages.
Defining the correct aquatic exercise programme for those with functional limitations is challenging in itself, but it is made even more so by limited amount of suitable reference material on the subject.
That situation has now changed following the publication of Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training.
It provides all the information necessary for adapting programmes to suit various types such as injured athletes, older adults and people with special exercise needs, such as patients with cerebral palsy, brain injury and stroke, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training is liberally illustrated and comes with a DVD that demonstrates nearly half of the book’s exercises and highlights key points for each.
Young athletes should be routinely tested for heart abnormalities to prevent sudden cardiac death triggered by vigorous exercise, using a simple protocol, which includes a heart trace (electrocardiogram or ECG).
This is the conclusion of several studies in the first of a series of quarterly partnership issues between the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which are dedicated to injury prevention in elite sports.
The second edition of Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators is a proven text and reference that offers teachers the tools they need in order to include children with disabilities into their programmes.
This completely updated edition builds upon the rock-solid content of the first edition, supplying teachers with new additions such as a CD-ROM from which ready-to-use forms, trainings for peers and paraeducators, rubrics, checklists, assessments and lesson plans can be printed
It also contains a new chapter on support for positive behaviour, with proven methods for managing and improving students’ behaviour and strategies for avoiding behavioural problems.
Farm visits are dispelling children’s deep ignorance about where the food they eat comes from and helping teachers deliver a wide spectrum of the national curriculum, a new study has shown.
The trips, set up as part of the Government’s Educational Access scheme, challenge many children’s belief that milk comes from bottles and that bread comes from a packet – something even those from rural areas struggle with!
Several of the UK’s biggest cereal manufacturers have called an urgent meeting with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week in an attempt to halt an impending advertising campaign highlighting the levels of salt in cereal.
The £3m ad campaign, due to break next month across TV, radio, outdoor and digital, aims to increase public awareness of the dangers of consuming too much salt and will highlight the hidden salt levels in cereal, bread, ketchup and soups.
Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer offers insight for coaches at any level. From basic drills to advanced practices, it details techniques and philosophies that will help you develop players both on and off the field."
— Hope Powell
Head Coach, England Women's National Football Team
Research in sport has suggested that an athlete’s tendency to either “choke” or “clutch” (give a better than usual performance) depends on his or her personality, as well as on situational influences, such as a reliance on explicit or implicit knowledge when pressured.
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A study comparing images of the knees of people who had and hadn’t suffered injury to their anterior cruciate ligaments, suggests that those who tore their ACLs were more likely to have a smaller ligament than do similarly sized people who have never injured a knee. 
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Well, unless you have particular dietary needs, vitamin supplements probably are a waste of money and may even be harmful, a nutritionist told a meeting at the recentBritish Science Festival
Showering may be bad for your health, say US scientists, who have shown that dirty shower heads can deliver a face full of harmful bacteria.
Guernsey’s Heather Watson has made history at New York’s Flushing Meadows by becoming the first British player to win the US Open girls’ singles title since the junior tournament’s inception in 1973.
Young athletes should be routinely tested for heart abnormalities to prevent sudden cardiac death triggered by vigorous exercise, using a simple protocol, which includes a heart trace (electrocardiogram or ECG).
Farm visits are dispelling children’s deep ignorance about where the food they eat comes from and helping teachers deliver a wide spectrum of the national curriculum, a new study has shown. 
Several of the UK’s biggest cereal manufacturers have called an urgent meeting with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week in an attempt to halt an impending advertising campaign highlighting the levels of salt in cereal.
