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Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 2011

1 online zdroj

ISBN 9781492595977 (online)

ISBN 9781492576518 (PDF ebook)

ISBN 9780736082747 (print)

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The Athlete’s Clock: How Biology and Time Affect Sport Performance offers an engaging, interdisciplinary consideration of some of the most compelling questions in sport and exercise science. This unique text takes a broad look at the physiological clock, offering students, researchers, coaches, and athletes a unique approach to understanding how various aspects of time affect sport performance. The Athlete’s Clock explores the ways in which time and its relationship to athletic effort can optimize sport performance. Readers can investigate challenging questions such as these: If physiological responses to training vary rhythmically throughout the day, what is the optimal time of day for training? If a coach thinks that a high stroke count leads to a better time in a particular swim event, should the athlete go with it? Or is it better to stick to a more intuitively normal cadence? Do endurance athletes consciously control their pacing, or are they under the control of unconscious processes within the central nervous system? In what ways do aging and rhythmic biological variations over time control athletic performance? Can athletes use cognitive strategies to subdue or overcome limits imposed by biological factors out of their control? Readers will find information on the mechanisms by which time influences physiological function--such as running speeds and muscle activation--and how those mechanisms can be used in extending the limits of motor activity..

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Chapter 1. Who’s in Charge Here? Setting the Race Pace ; Chapter 2. Marching to the Same Drummer: Cadence in Endurance Events ; Chapter 3. Dragsters, Tiger Beetles, and Usain Bolt: Time and Speed ; Chapter 4. Circadian Rhythms and Sport Performance ; Chapter 5. It’s All in the Timing: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball ; Chapter 6. Peaks and Valleys: The Development of Athletic Skill: A Conversation With Bob Malina ; Chapter 7. Over The Hill: Aging and Sport Performance