Sport & PerformanceOct 29, 2020
Performance Analysis in Sport
One of the most prominent areas within Sport Science in the last decade has been performance analysis. This area is attaining ...
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Sport & PerformanceSep 24, 2020
Televising school sport could put too much focus on performance, a price too high for young athletes
A new deal to televise and live stream more secondary school sports in New Zealand has attracted significant attention and debate.
Sport & PerformanceJun 15, 2020
Developing and training mental toughness in sport: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and pre-test and post-test experiments
Data sources Journal articles, conference papers and doctoral theses indexed in Embase, Scopus, PubMed and SPORTDiscus from ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 1, 2020
Welsh Institute of Performance Science
The Welsh Institute of Performance Science (WIPS) is led by Swansea University in a collaboration with academic partners ...
Sport & PerformanceJan 18, 2018
Caffeine’s sport performance advantage for infrequent tea and coffee drinkers
Sports scientists have found that the performance enhancing benefits of caffeine are more apparent in athletes who do not drink ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 28, 2017
Music to Motivate Exercise
I have been spinning now for almost a year. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it when I first started—after all, it simply involves ...
Sport & PerformanceApr 12, 2017
The game must go on, says sport psychologist
A day after the Borussia Dortmund attack, players are back on the pitch. In a DW interview, sport psychologist Jens Kleinert ...
Sport & PerformanceJan 1, 2017
Sports Psychology: Mind and Body
Over the years, an increasing number of students have asked me about becoming a sports psychologist. Students understand that our ...
Sport & PerformanceOct 3, 2016
Sex before sport doesn't negatively impact performance
Over the course of the Rio Olympics, 450,000 condoms were distributed around the athlete's village. This may be surprising ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 18, 2016
How Caffeine Improves Exercise Performance
Caffeine is a powerful substance that can improve both your physical and mental performance. The U.S. Special Forces even use it ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 5, 2015
The focus on mental health at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games
Three-time Paralympic gold medalist Theo Gmur of Switzerland knows first-hand how the highs and lows of elite competition ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 17, 2012
Performance enhancement: Superhuman athletes
Enhancements such as doping are illegal in sport — but if all restrictions were lifted, science could push human performance to ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 2, 2009
Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport
In 490 BC, the Persian Army landed on the plain of Marathon, 25 miles from Athens. The Athenians sent a messenger named ...