Practical Skills in Sport and Exercise Science - Couverture souple

Reaburn, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408203774 ISBN 13 : 9781408203774

Editeur : Prentice Hall, 2011

Synopsis

If you are studying exercise and sports science, or a related course, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This ‘one-stop’ text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that you will need during your undergraduate and/or postgraduate studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in the wider transferable skills such as teamwork, using information technology, communicating information and study skills.

Practical Skills in Exercise and Sports Science provides an easy-to-read guide to help you develop the skills you need to succeed. It explains the essential elements of practical techniques and procedures in a step-by-step manner to help you understand their application in the context of exercise and sports science.

This text’s unique and comprehensive coverage includes: general advice on practical work; measuring techniques; field tests; statistical techniques; analysis and presentation of data; and study skills.  

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

If you are studying sport and exercise science, or a related course, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This ‘one-stop’ text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data-handling skills that you will need during your undergraduate and/or postgraduate studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in wider transferable skills such as teamwork, effective use of information technology, communicating information and study skills.

 

Practical Skills in Sport and Exercise Science provides an easy-to-read guide to help you develop the skills you need to succeed. It explains the essential elements of practical techniques and procedures in a step-by-step manner to help you understand their application in the context of sport and exercise science.

 

Features include:

 

• Comprehensive coverage of a wide range of practical elements within the discipline,        including pre-exercise health screening procedures; measuring speed, strength, power and endurance capacities; kinanthropometry and the most widely-used field tests.

• Advice and guidance on practical work; measuring techniques; statistical techniques; analysis and presentation of data and study skills

• Numerous margin tips and hints, ‘how to’ boxes, checklists, and worked examples.

• Key points highlight critical features of methodology.

• Relevant Internet resources for the subject highlighted.

 

Peter Reaburn is Associate Professor in Exercise and Sport Science at CQUniversity, Australia.

 

Ben Dascombe is Lecturer in Exercise and Sport Science at Newcastle University, Australia.

 

Rob Reed is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at CQUniversity, Australia.

 

Allan Jones is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Award Fellow in Ecology, Environmental Science

and Zoology at the University of Dundee, UK. Jonathan Weyers is Director of Quality Assurance

at the University of Dundee, UK.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408203774
• ISBN 13: 9781408203774
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie