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Author : David Hemery
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780873221313
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Sporting Excellence written by David Hemery and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hemery
Publisher : HarperSport
ISBN 13 : 9780002183987
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Sporting Excellence written by David Hemery and published by HarperSport. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134273312
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Excellence written by Michael Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win. Many athletes are professionals, with careers managed by teams of specialist staff working towards the ultimate goal of world-class, medal-winning performances. This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, covering the key issues and talking points including: the history and tradition of sporting excellence comparisons of elite high-performance sport programmes in Australia, the USA, East Germany and France the historical, social, political and economic impacts of sporting excellence in the UK current issues and debates, including drugs in sport the future for high-performance sport. With a clear framework for understanding and exploring key issues, questions for discussion, websites and suggestions for further reading, In Pursuit of Excellence is an ideal introduction for AS, A Level and undergradute students.
Author : Simon Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472918797
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Losing It written by Simon Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too must have played and lost and won, known shame, hope, joy, horror and glory. Simon Barnes has taken part in seven summer Olympic Games, five World Cups and ten Ashes series. Well, not exactly taken part, but certainly he was there and writing hard. And always, behind every victory and every defeat he ever recorded, there was the reference of his own sporting career, in which the bitter beauties of failure were occasionally varied with the intoxication of success. At school he was – at least at first – the opposite of a rebel without a cause: he was a sporting fool in search of a game he could excel at, alas finding none. When he was nine he thought he would somehow be miraculously good at sport. Sadly he never was. But the sporting fool within him never died and in his late 20s he tried again – a second sporting career, in which the triumph of hope over experience was more or less a rout. The dream had only slightly modified: he now thought he would be somehow be miraculously competent. So he co-founded a football team and at last found himself the first-choice goalkeeper. Then he co-founded a cricket team, on the grounds that by doing so he would always be sure of a game. And at the same time, he got horsiness and discovered he was actually quite good at riding in competition. All these adventures taught him about sport: why we do it, what is required to be very good at it. He learned about the relationship of physical and mental skills, about fear and courage and physical pain. He learned about funk, about Zen-like calm, about the team thing, about the "me" thing. His sporting failure has been a joyous and profoundly informative part of his life, and here he tells the story of it.
Author : Eric Simpson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490363882
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (638 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Excellence written by Eric Simpson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Third book in the series of A Life In Professional Sports., following up The Steps Along The Way, and the most recent edition The Gifts of Experience. This series of books are written to be a guide for the next generations of athletes to understand what it takes to get to that next level in terms of the sacrifice and commitment, and for that parent who enjoys re-living some stories from their own childhood days
Author : Richard Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783981117912
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Talent Identification and Development - the Search for Sporting Excellence written by Richard Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736067577
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Excellence written by Terry Orlick and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed sports psychologist Orlick provides new insights and a powerful step-by-step plan to help readers fulfill their aspirations. Both practical and inspirational, this book is a guide to daily living.
Author : Nicola Jane Swinney
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781318549
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Sporting Horse written by Nicola Jane Swinney and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibiting grace and poise as they master the intricate movements of dressage; galloping like the wind at more than thirty miles per hour; soaring over huge competition fences; running tirelessly across every type of terrain – horses are simply stunning athletes. Naturally fleet of foot, they have strength, stamina and intelligence to match. We ask a great deal of these amazing creatures when we ride them in competition, and our horses always deliver. The Sporting Horse is a glorious celebration of the athletic abilities of these beautiful animals, and the unique relationship that has evolved between horse and rider. Working side-by-side for centuries, horse and man have achieved a lasting synergy – and nowhere is that more evident than in the sporting arena. Taking each of the four key sporting characteristics – athleticism, speed, agility and endurance – veteran journalist Nicola Swinney explores how hundreds of years of selective breeding and careful training have developed and refined the horse’s natural ability to perform a diverse range of sporting pursuits. From dressage to polo, snow sports to carriage driving, steeplechasing to barrel racing, the book reveals how horse and rider work as one to achieve sporting excellence.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492519775
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (197 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Excellence written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brent S.. Rushall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Think and Act Like a Champion written by Brent S.. Rushall and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Light Shields
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1492583316
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)
Download or read book True Competition written by David Light Shields and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The e-book for True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society is available at a reduced price and allows students to highlight and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the Human Kinetics site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when the order is received. True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society offers a blueprint for maximizing the potential of competition to foster excellence and enjoyment. It provides a novel perspective on competition that challenges traditional beliefs through a research-backed defense that—up until now—has been lacking. With this text, readers will learn the differences between positive and negative competition, and they will discover how to implement change in their organizations, teams, and individual practices. The authors of this groundbreaking book, who are leading experts in sport psychology, redefine what competition is and should be. Unlike the more typical and often socially destructive form of competition—which they call decompetition—true competition brings out excellence in participants, fosters positive character development, and leads to lasting enjoyment. This socially and psychologically positive perspective on competition challenges Alfie Kohn's No Contest: The Case Against Competition, which has been called the definitive critique of competition. The authors propose that competition itself is not problematic; rather, they question how competition is sometimes envisioned, interpreted, and implemented. They provide suggestions for achieving positive outcomes from competition, including creating challenging yet supportive environments in sport programs and teams, fostering the well-being of athletes, and encouraging athletes to handle various situations. The research-based text uses a field-guide approach, in which the components of true competition are presented in chapter 3 and then detailed in the following chapters. This approach helps readers understand competition and how it is being used in their own lives. While the book relies heavily on the arena of sports, it also provides many examples of applying this revised understanding of competition in business, education, politics, and other nonsport environments. To enhance the learning experience, True Competition offers the following features: -A scholarly analysis of competition is presented in a clear and engaging writing style, making the provocative concepts easily accessible to any reader. -Engaging sidebars give examples of how true competition has been created in various environments to shorten the implementation curve for readers. -Q&A sidebars pose practical questions to ponder—just as a parent, coach, or official would—and prepares readers for issues they will confront in the field. By applying the information presented in this text, students, professionals, and athletes will learn how to maximize the benefits of competition by avoiding decompetition. Not only will they understand how to recognize and respond to positive and negative forms of competition, but they also will gain the tools they need in order to promote true competition in their own worlds. Instructions for downloading and accessing the e-book will be provided once the order is complete. Adobe Digital Editions® System Requirements Windows -Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows Vista® (Home Basic 32-bit and Business 64-bit editions supported) -Intel® Pentium® 500MHz processor -128MB of RAM -800x600 monitor resolutionMac PowerPC -Mac OS X v10.4.10 or v10.5 -PowerPC® G4 or G5 500MHz processor -128MB of RAM Intel® -Mac OS X v10.4.10 or v10.5 -500MHz processor -128MB of RAM Supported browsers and Adobe Flash versions Windows -Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7, Mozilla Firefox 2 -Adobe Flash® Player 7, 8, or 9 (Windows Vista requires Flash 9.0.28 to address a known bug)Mac -Apple Safari 2.0.4, Mozilla Firefox 2 -Adobe Flash Player 8 or 9 Supported devices -Sony® Reader PRS-505 Language versions -English -French -German
Author : Helen Lenskyj
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791454732
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (547 download)
Download or read book The Best Olympics Ever? written by Helen Lenskyj and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.
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Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435506124
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Advanced PE for OCR A2 written by and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This student text provides activities and material to complete students' personal performance portfolios and identifies key words and phrases throughout, following the subject specification unit by unit as it covers the course.
Author : Emma Carney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876498634
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Hard Wired written by Emma Carney and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of school and emerging as one of Australia's future distance running stars, Emma Carney discovered the sport of triathlon. The sport was never the same again. With an unmatched record, she devastated the international circuit. Defined by a relentless pursuit of sporting excellence, Emma was known to detest losing more than she loved to win. At home in the cutthroat world of professional sport, Emma didn't expect a welcoming party waiting for her when she reached the pinnacle of triathlon. A fiercely independent athlete, fitting in and conforming was never her style. Rules annoyed her. Authority irritated her. And that complicated things... Emma's is a life publicly defined by winning. But like sport, nothing is predictable. Success is fickle, life is fragile. Emma's story reveals that international sporting success is about much more than winning. Courage is a constant. Hard work and dedication are vital, as are unwavering passion, belief, and desire. But there is more. Emma's story also raises questions: who is truly there when things go wrong, when the system fails? Who cares when you find yourself dying on the roadside, saving yourself only to then lose your sister, identity, self-belief and hope in everything you once believed in...?
Author : Amy Izycky
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1800130473
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Skewed to the Right written by Amy Izycky and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demands of the high-performance athlete are huge, with many celebrated for their achievements, and put on a pedestal for admired personality traits such as discipline, sacrifice, commitment, and focus. This book seeks to explore the celebrated traits of the high-performance athlete and, by doing so, to increase awareness of the vulnerability that such traits also present. Through discussion with professional sports people and presentation of their own personal stories the book explores obsessionality, masochism, and focus, and how these characteristics can enhance performance on the field yet hinder life off it and may even develop into clinically diagnosable mental health difficulties. In psychology, assessments are based on statistical phenomena; the title Skewed to the Right is based on the 'bell curve' that is shown through a graph whereby the majority sit in the middle with a few clusters at either on of the extremes. The suggestion is that elite athletes are 'skewed to the right' on a number of key traits that put them between the 'general' population and those with a clinical diagnosis. The book opens with an exploration of weight-restricted sport and how making weight is achieved through practices that become culturally acceptable in the sporting world yet would be seen to be classified as clinically diagnosable eating disorders in the medical world. It then moves on to personality traits that help and hinder - those skewed to the right: masochism, obsessionality, and focus. Part 3 looks at one trait skewed to the left - acceptance - that many sportspeople struggle with. The book closes with a section exploring points of vulnerability for all athletes and ends with a look at where we can go from here. The aim of the book is to increase social awareness of the reality of life for the successful high-performance athlete and the challenging dynamics that exist in sporting culture today. It will be of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists, trainees, and anyone with an interest in sporting culture.
Author : Mike McNamee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134649789
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Sports, Virtues and Vices written by Mike McNamee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. The central theme running through the book is that sports are effectively modern morality plays: universal practices of moral education for the masses and - when coached, officiated and played properly - a valuable vehicle for ethical development. Including a wealth of contemporary sporting examples, the book explores key ethical issues such as: How the pursuit of sporting excellence can lead to harm Doping, greed and shame Biomedical technology as a challenge to the virtue of elite athletes Defining a ‘virtue ethical account’ in sport Family vices and virtues in sport Written by one of the world's foremost sports philosophers, this book powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics and medical ethics. It is essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the ethics and philosophy of sport.
Author : Dean Stott
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665725184
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Relentless written by Dean Stott and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Stott made a mistake that he was certain was going to cost him his life. As a former Special Operations soldier, this was not his first mission in Yemen. Yet although he was appropriately dressed head-to-toe as a local, he had neglected to put in brown contact lenses. Stott had been compromised. With thoughts of his family racing through his mind, Stott reached below his automobile seat and took hold of his weapon. In a gripping retelling of his life story to date, Stott shares insight into his esteemed military career in the British army where he conducted deployments to hostile environments, worked within counterterrorism operations in some of the most dangerous places in the world, and survived a horrific parachute accident. As he leads others into his experiences, Stott discloses how he continued to fuel his journey of excellence five years after leaving the military by becoming the first man to cycle the Pan American Highway in under one hundred days while raising over a million dollars for mental health awareness charities. Throughout his retelling, Stott offers an inspiring reminder that we all have the capability to use our inner voices, drive, and instincts to become relentless in our pursuits in life. Relentless is the extraordinary true story of Tier One Special Forces soldier, adventurer, and world-record breaker, Dean Stott.
