Exercise Physiology

for Health and Sports Performance

Nick Draper, Helen Marshall (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

576 Seiten

2012 | Student edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-0-273-75562-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Exercise Physiology for Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human anatomy and applied physiology that students of exercise science, physical education and sports coaching need to know.

Written in a friendly, accessible style and containing a wide range of features to help develop understanding, this book provides a complete one-stop-shop for exercise physiology.

Autor

Dr Nick Draper is Head of the School of Sciences and Physical Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Dr Helen Marshall is a Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Sciences and Physical Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Inhalt

Table of Contents



Author Acknowledgements

Preface

PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY

Chapter 1: Exercise physiology, sport and pedagogy: An historical perspective

Chapter 2: Nutrition for health and sports performance

Chapter 3: From cells to systems

Chapter 4: The control systems: nervous and endocrine

Chapter 5: The movement systems: skeletal and muscular

Chapter 6: The transport and exchange systems: respiratory and cardiovascular

Chapter 7: Physical and functional growth and development

PART II: APPLIED EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY

Chapter 8: General concepts for applied exercise physiology

Chapter 9: Power and power endurance: The explosive sports

Chapter 10: Anaerobic endurance: The speed endurance sports

Chapter 11: High intensity aerobic endurance sports

Chapter 12: Lower intensity aerobic endurance sports

Chapter 13: Intermittent sports

Chapter 14: Applied exercise physiology and health

Chapter 15: Applied exercise physiology and the environment

Appendix A: Movement terms

Appendix B: Gas conversion correction table

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

References

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 275 x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 1232 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Sportmedizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• ISBN-10: 0-273-75562-5 / 0273755625
• ISBN-13: 978-0-273-75562-3 / 9780273755623
• Zustand: Neuware