Table of Contents
- Focus Area 1: In movement
- Application of energy sources affecting physical performance
- The contribution of energy systems in specific activities
- The interplay of energy systems
- Energy contributions and fatigue
- Application of the effects of training on physical performance
- Analysis of the demands of physical activity
- Measurement and monitoring of fitness and energy components relevant to participation and performance
- Training principles and methods specific to fitness factors and to physical activities
- Chronic adaptations related to training methods
- How does biomechanics affect physical activity and movement
- Generating force
- Speed and motion in sport
- Achieving distance
- Achieving and maintaining equilibrium
- How does biomechanics affect physical activity and movement
- Generating force
- Speed and motion in sport
- Achieving distance
- Achieving and maintaining equilibrium
- Practical application of learning theories
- Coaching methodologies
- Socio-cultural considerations around constraints of games
- Ethical strategies to promote integrity and fair participation
- Game-based approaches and pedagogies
- Sports education model
- Psychology of sporting performance
- The role of feedback and its effect on learning and performance
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Analysis of movement concepts and strategies
- Collecting valid and reliable data
- Making sense of movement concepts and strategies to improve participation and/or performance
- Application of concepts and strategies in unfamiliar contexts
- Application of energy sources affecting physical performance
- Focus Area 2: Through Movement
- Social Psychology
- Group dynamics
- Team-building strategies
- Personal well-being
- Psychology of sporting performance
- Neurochemical balance
- Perception of effort (PoE)
- Strategies to improve an athlete’s relationship with PoE
- Goal-setting strategies
- Mental rehearsal strategies
- Positive self-talk strategies
- Self-confidence strategies
- Barriers and enablers to physical activity
- Personal strategies
- Social strategies
- Cultural strategies
- Social Psychology
- Focus Area 3: About Movement
- Energy sources affecting physical performance
- Sources of macronutrients for activity
- Nutrition and performance
- Aerobic and anaerobic energy
- Physiological factors affecting physical performance
- Body stature and composition
- Barriers and enablers created by location, environment, and resource availability
- Fatigue and physical performance
- The effects of training on physical performance
- Acute response to physical activity
- Chronic adaptations to aerobic and anaerobic training
- Technological developments in biomechanics
- Current technology in biomechanics
- The influence of technological developments on learning, performance development, and performance enhancement
- Psychological motor-learning theories
- Cognitive theory perspective
- Ecological (dynamic systems) theory perspective
- Comparing theories
- The learning process
- Information processing model and perceptual motor workspace
- Signal detection, selective attention, attentional focus
- The learning journey
- Stages of learning: cognitive and ecological
- Appendices
- Answers to questions
- References
- Index
- Energy sources affecting physical performance