Practical Skills in Sports & Exercise Science
By Peter Reaburn, et al.
September 2011
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408203774
414 pages, Illustrated
$87.50 Paper Original
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.
Contents
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The importance of transferrable skills
2. Managing your time
3. Working with others
4. Taking notes from lectures and text
5. Learning and revising
6. Curriculum options, assessment and exams
7. Preparing your curriculum vitae
8. Finding and citing published information
9. Evaluating information
10. Using online resources
11. Using spreadsheets
12. Word processors, databases and other packages
13. Reporting and interpreting test results
14. General aspects of scientific writing
15. Writing essays and literature reviews
16. Organising a poster display
17. Giving a spoken presentation
18. The principles of measurement
19. Making valid and reliable measurements
20. SI units and their use
21. Scientific method and design of experiments
22. Conducting and writing up project work
23. Your approach to practical work
24. Health and safety
25. Working with body fluids
26. Preparing for fitness tests
27. Pre-exercise health screening procedures
28. Blood and urine collection and analysis
29. Measuring cardiac function
30. Testing pulmonary function
31. Measuring endurance exercise intensity
32. Measuring hydration status and body temperature
33. Measuring flexibility
34. Kinanthropometry
35. Measuring body composition
36. Measuring maximal aerobic capacity
37. Indirect measures of aerobic capacity
38. Measuring energy expenditure and physical activity
39. Measuring anaerobic power and capacity
40. Measuring muscle strength and endurance
41. Common field tests
42. Specific field tests
43. Measuring endurance training thresholds
44. Measuring economy of exercise
45. Monitoring training load
46. Manipulating and transforming raw data
47. Graphs
48. Presenting data in tables
49. Descriptive statistics
50. Choosing and using statistical tests
Index
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