Exercise Physiology and Sport Psychology in Competition Sports

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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