Sustainability in high performance sport
eBook - ePub

Sustainability in high performance sport

Current practices - Future directions

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sustainability in high performance sport

Current practices - Future directions

About this book

Success in high performance sport is highly valued in today's world, with lucrative contracts, sponsorship deals, and opportunities for celebrity status balanced against substantial investments of time and energy, and high chances of failure. With pressure mounting on athletes and coaches to make the most of athletic investments, the temptation to make health-related or ethical compromises is growing.

Sustainability in High Performance Sport examines the pressures faced by coaches and athletes, and considers how sustainable science can offer alternative pathways to sporting excellence. By applying principles relating to carrying capacities, complexity and uncertainty, production and consumption, and ethics, this unique book provides new ways of thinking about both enduring and emerging challenges. With a scope that includes themes such as coaching practices, coach-athlete relationships, over-training and injuries, the development of sporting expertise, and doping, Sustainability in High Performance Sport is the most comprehensive exploration of sustainability in elite sport available. It is an invaluable resource for anybody with an interest in achieving long-term success in high performance sport. This book was originally published as a special issue of Reflective Practice.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781317327912
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. 1. High performance sport and sustainability: a contradiction of terms?
  9. 2. Coachesā€™ learning and sustainability in high performance sport
  10. 3. Caring as an important foundation in coaching for social sustainability: a case study of a successful Swedish coach in high-performance sport
  11. 4. Alternative discourses in the coaching of high performance youth sport: exploring language of sustainability
  12. 5. Techno-rational knowing and phronesis: the professional practice of one middle-distance running coach
  13. 6. Reaching balance and sustainability: weight regulation in combat sports. A case study of a female boxer
  14. 7. Growth problems in youth elite sports. Social conditions, athletesā€™ experiences and sustainability consequences
  15. 8. ā€˜Just do a little moreā€™: examining expertise in high performance sport from a sociocultural learning perspective
  16. 9. Shifting the burden of proof in doping: lessons from environmental sustainability applied to high-performance sport
  17. Index