Sports performance. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kazuyuki Kanosue, editor in chief ; Tomoyuki Nagami, Jun Tsuchiya, editors.
• Editors: Kanosue, Kazuyuki; Nagami, Tomoyuki; Tsuchiya, Jun
• Contents: Preface -- Part I: The Sporting Brain -- Sports Performance and the Brain -- Brain Activity during Motor Imagery -- Brain Oscillations and Athletic Performance -- Intra- and Inter-Person Coordinated Movements of Fingers and Toes -- Training Locomotor Function -- On the Structure of Movement Preparation -- Muscle Relaxation and Sports -- Neural Mechanisms of Muscle Cramp -- Task Difficulty Affects the Association Between Childhood Fitness and Cognitive Flexibility -- Part II: The Physiological Basis of Sports Performance -- Genetic Polymorphisms associated with Elite Athlete Status -- Resting Energy Expenditure in Japanese Athletes -- Health Issues and Dietary Strategies for Heavy Athletes -- High Fat Diet and Endurance Exercise Performance -- Nonuniform Muscle Hypertrophy along the Length Induced by Resistance Training -- Quantitative Profiles of the Quadriceps Femoris in Sport Athletes -- Jump Performance Enhancement Induced by Countermovement -- Can a High-Intensity Contraction be Enhanced by a Conditioning Contraction? Insight from the Relationship between Shortening Velocity of Muscle Fibers and Post activation Potentiation -- Is Graduated Pressure Profile an Essential Feature for Compression Stockings to Reduce Fatigue Development of the Plantar Flexors? -- Exercise in Space: Physical and mental benefit -- Part III: Performance and Coaching in Various Sports -- Energetic Considerations in Cross-Country Skiing -- Biomechanical Analysis of V2 Skating in Cross-Country Skiing -- Limb Force Generation as a Limiting Factor for Maximum-effort Acceleration Performance -- Optimal Technique, Variability and Control in Gymnastics -- Activity of the Trunk and Leg Musculature during the Flutter Kick -- Open Water Swimming Performance -- The Spin on a Baseball for Eight Different Pitches Thrown by an Elite Professional Pitcher -- Baseball Hitting Accuracy and Contributing Factors -- Automatic Tracking of Player Locations from Video Image of Football Game -- Conceptualization of Coaching Process and Coaching Practice.
• Publisher Details: Tokyo : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612/.044; Sports -- Physiological aspects; Athletic ability; Sports -- physiology; Movement -- physiology; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; MEDICAL -- Physiology; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology; Athletic ability; Sports -- Physiological aspects; Medicine & Public Health; Sports Medicine; Biomedical Engineering; Science Education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9784431553151; 4431553150; 4431553142; 9784431553144
• Related ISBNs: 9784431553144
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