Exercise Physiology and Sport Psychology in Competition Sports
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2018) | Viewed by 10429
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mathematical and statistical modelling of high performance athletes in athletics and world masters sports; prediction of performance using multivariate statistical modelling and multidisciplinary (biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport psychology, motor control and learning) approaches; exercise and sport psychology, including research designs and applications of neural networks across sports of World Masters Games, athletics, master’s rugby and rugby, triathlon and karate; interrelationships of force, power, speed, work and fatigue indices predicting and discriminating ability levels within competition sports performance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Sports will blend the disciplines of exercise physiology and sport psychology and the important role that both disciplines contribute to understanding factors that enhance high-performance competitive sports. In this Special Issue, we encourage multidisciplinary approaches where both disciplines are included in predicting competition performance, where multiple measures are employed using the many subdisciplines that exist in exercise physiology and sports psychology. In exercise physiology this could include topics such as bioenergetics, strength, aerobic power, anaerobic power, kinathropometrics and recovery strategies. In sport psychology topics as multiple theories predicting motivation, use of sports imagery, goal setting, arousal and stress regulation, factors predicting sport burnout and team dynamics and cohesion. In terms of analytical approaches the application of more complex multivariate approaches to predict sports competition outcomes to reveal the more complex interactions between predictive variables and sport outcome variables. Innovative research designs are encouraged, as well as a relevant “take home message” for the reader with direct applications to athlete, team training and competition.
Prof. Ian Heazlewood
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Exercise
- Physiology
- Sport
- Psychology
- Sports competition
- Prediction
- Multidisciplinary
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