Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

trained assistants, if necessary. Box 7.5 presents examples of the various team-building exercises advocated by Carron et al. (1 ...

One of the exercises which was the target of his derision involved the attempt by a sub- group of players to balance a long bamb ...

Figure 7.4 The joy of schools’ rugby—celebrating a try Source: courtesy of Inpho Photography On the other hand, we must remember ...

suggested that the longer athletes remain in sport, the less sportspersonship they display and the more likely they are to condo ...

there is a paucity of knowledge at present about possible changes in group dynamics within sports teams over time. Therefore, lo ...

It began by explaining the meaning of such terms as “group”, “team” and “group dynamics”. Next, a review was provided of psycho ...

Part four EXPLORING HEALTH, EXERCISE AND INJURY Overview Part one of the book examined the nature of the discipline and professi ...

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Chapter 8 Does a healthy body always lead to a healthy mind? Exploring exercise psychology (with the assistance of Tadhg MacInty ...

agreement exists about their causes, consequences or solution (Morgan and Dishman, 2001). The main reason for this state of affa ...

What is “exercise psychology”? Exploring physical activity, exercise and fitness Exercise psychology emerged as a distinct field ...

activity as any bodily movement that is produced by the skeletal muscles and which results in the expenditure of energy. Of cour ...

that such exercise soon becomes boring for many people. By contrast, he exhorted people to rediscover the joy of “purposeful” ph ...

example, Dr William Bird (2001, cited in Murphy, 2001) has established ‘The Green Gym’—a conservation project that combines the ...

least one significant way. To explain, whereas the latter field is concerned mainly with the study of physical activity, exercis ...

processes. After that, a brief evaluation of some important conceptual and methodological issues in this field will be provided. ...

increasing the electrical activity of the heart itself. Also, it lowers blood pressure, thereby decreasing the chances of a stro ...

with which the physical activity is conducted. In this regard, Mutrie (2001) reported that moderate levels of such activity (e.g ...

“capabilities to organise and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments” (Bandura, 1997, p. 3). Accord ...

Juvenal). But lest we accept this conclusion prematurely, it is important to evaluate the quality of the evidence on which it is ...