Sports Performance Analysis Books

New and Published Books

1. Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

   Edited by Jason Mazanov

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example,...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Science and Football VII

   The Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress on Science and Football

   Edited by Hiroyuki Nunome, Barry Drust, Brian Dawson

   Science and Football VII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as ‘football’. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league). Bridging the gap between theory...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Food, Nutrition and Sports Performance III

   Edited by Ronald J. Maughan, Susan M. Shirreffs

   As sport has become more professionalised over the last thirty years, so the role of nutrition in promoting health and performance has become ever more important to athletes who search for the extra edge to succeed in their respective sports. With the expansion in the provision of medical and...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Complexity and Control in Team Sports

   Dialectics in contesting human systems

   By Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

   Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Projectile Dynamics in Sport

   Principles and Applications

   By Colin White

   How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield? How do the dimples in a golf ball influence its flight from tee to pin? What forces determine the path of a soccer ball steered over a defensive wall by an elite player? An understanding of the physical processes involved in...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Nutrition and the Female Athlete

   From Research to Practice

   Edited by Katherine A. Beals

   Designed to address the nutritional needs of women over the age of 18 who partake in sports on a regular basis, Nutrition and the Female Athlete: From Research to Practice highlights nutritional concerns specific to active women. It discusses the link between nutrition and athletic performance and...

   Published January 28th 2013 by CRC Press
8. Science and Soccer

   Developing Elite Performers

   Edited by Mark A. Williams

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Science and Soccer is still the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the physiology, biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport. Offering important guidance on how science translates into practice, the book...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Dietary Protein and Resistance Exercise

   Edited by Lonnie Michael Lowery, Jose Antonio

   Dietary supplement companies and the food industry spend millions to reach resistance trainers—often with exaggerated marketing messages—while health practitioners continue to counsel athletes that their interest in protein is misguided and even dangerous. There appears to be a disconnect between...

   Published April 24th 2012 by CRC Press
10. Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance

    The Training Table

    Edited by Lemuel W. Taylor IV

    Knowing the basic nutrition requirements and combining them with proper training are the two most important factors for athletes to achieve peak performance levels. Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance: The Training Table addresses these needs on a comprehensive basis from a training...

    Published March 25th 2012 by CRC Press