Download or read book Analysis of a Periodized Mental Skills Delivery Model for the USSA Cross country National Development Ski Team written by Shannon Von Guenthner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mental skills training (MST) programs have received considerable support for effectiveness in enhancing sport performance in athletes (Greenspan & Feltz, 1989; Vealey, 1994). A consensus among the literature indicates the need for more controlled studies investigating different and more systematic methods of implementation, especially the use of idiographic designs (Weinberg & Gould, 1999; Weinberg & Williams, 1993; Balague, 1999). The primary purpose of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate a mental skills training program for elite cross-country ski racers in a case-by case fashion. This study also serves as an empirical test of a recently developed method of program delivery by utilizing mental skills "menu" approach (Hammermeister, 2000) within a periodized format of mental training (Burton, Hammermeister, Holliday, & Naylor, 2000). This delivery model was also selected to address a request from the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) for more open coach/consultant communication and for evidence of measurable effects from psychology services. Six members of the USSA Cross Country National Developmental Group (NDG) participated in a comprehensive mental skills intervention. This intervention included an 8 week educational phase followed by the development and implementation of a periodized individual mental training program based on the unique needs of each athlete (Hammermeister, 2000). Pre- and post-intervention testing utilizing the Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS; Thomas, Murphy & Hardy, 1999), the Trait Sport Confidence Inventory (TSCI; Vealy, 1986), the Competitive Orientation Inventory (COl: Vealy, 1986), and the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS; Smith, Smoll, & Schultz, 1990) were used to evaluate program effectiveness. Single-subject pre and post-test analysis of treatment effect for each individual indicated enhanced psychological skill knowledge and usage across all athletes. Increases in both task and ego motivation were found to be a trend among the athletes. Improved sport confidence and decreases in the somatic, cognitive, and concentration disruption components of the SAS were found in five of the six athletes. Furthermore, feedback given by the NDG athletes and coaches indicated a preference for this type of delivery format. These positive results provide evidence for the usefulness of a psychological skills menu approach to a periodized model of mental training for elite ski racers"--Document.
Download or read book Development of a Practical Model for Coaches to Use Mental Skills Training to Enhance Psychological Strengths for Athletes written by Vijay Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigated the effectiveness of mental skills training. A meta-analysis (Study 1) was conducted to examine the existing evidence on mental skills training interventions: goal setting, self-talk, relaxation, imagery and multicomponent as performance enhancing strategies in the sporting domain. A total of 128 studies with 684 effect sizes were included in the final meta-analysis. Overall, mental skills training had a moderate, positive association with performance outcomes (d = .72, 95% CI = [.60, .85]). The I2 analysis showed that 18% of the variation was attributable to differences within study and 70% was attributed to between studies. Mental practice length was a significant moderator, showing that comparatively shorter duration of mental practice improved performance more substantively.An intervention research approach was undertaken to investigate the effectiveness of the mental skills training with football players in Fiji. Test of Performance Strategies, short form (TOPS 2S) was developed (Study 2) and utilised for the intervention in a cross-cultural setting in Fiji (Study 3). There were three parts in the intervention study, which examined the following: the cross-validation of the TOPS 2S (Part A); intervention effects on mental skills use (Part B1), psychological strengths (mental toughness, self-concept, life effectiveness, and flow, Part B2); and football performance (Part C). Part A, the cross-validation results, showed that the TOPS 2S had consistent moderate reliability and acceptable (Hu & Bentler, 1999) fit indices. Part B, the quantitative component of the intervention study, showed the significant intervention effect on the use of goal setting, self-talk, relaxation and imagery.Furthermore, there were mediation effects on the psychological strengths; mental toughness, self-concept, flow, and life effectiveness. Part C, the qualitative component of the intervention, was the school coaches' perception of the intervention, and the findings demonstrated that the “train the trainer” model was an effective form of intervention delivery for the players, as well as coaches. The coaches reported that the multicomponent program not only helped the players improve their football performance, but also enhanced their well- being. Coaches, who were classroom teachers, incorporated mental skills programs in their teaching practice to enrich student learning, and reported personal gains such as better emotion regulation and improved classroom and behaviour management.
Download or read book The Political Unconscious written by Fredric Jameson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today. Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative. Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.
Download or read book Terrorist Assemblages written by Jasbir K. Puar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, shifting queers from their construction as figures of death to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity. This tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends, however, on the production of populations of Orientalized terrorist bodies. Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S. nation-state has long relied on are now accompanied by what Puar calls homonationalism—a fusing of homosexuality to U.S. pro-war, pro-imperialist agendas. As a concept and tool of biopolitical management, homonationalism is here to stay. Puar’s incisive analyses of feminist and queer responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs, the decriminalization of sodomy in the wake of the Patriot Act, and the profiling of Sikh Americans and South Asian diasporic queers are not instances of a particular historical moment; rather, they are reflective of the dynamics saturating power, sexuality, race, and politics today. This Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition features a new foreword by Tavia Nyong’o and a postscript by Puar entitled “Homonationalism in Trump Times.” Nyong’o and Puar recontextualize the book in light of the current political moment while reposing its original questions to illuminate how Puar’s interventions are even more vital and necessary than ever.
Download or read book Science and Skiing written by E. Kornexl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first International Congress on Science and Skiing was held in Austria in January 1996. The main aim of the conference was to bring together original key research in this area and provid an essential update for those in the field. The lnk between theory and practice was also addressed, making the research more applicable for both researchers and coaches. This book is divided into five parts, each containing a group of papers that are related by theme or disciplineary approach. They are as follows: Biomechanics of Skiing; Fitness testing and Training in Skiing; Movement Control and Psychology in Skiing; Physiology of Skiing and Sociology of Skiing. The conclusions drawn from the conference represent an invaluable practical reference for sports scientists, coached, skiers and all those involved in this area.
Download or read book The Worlds of Langston Hughes written by Vera M. Kutzinski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking. Focusing on Hughes's autobiographies, translations of his poetry, his own translations, and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee, she shows that translating and being translated—and often mistranslated—are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes's writings across Europe and the Americas, we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers. Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored: Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and of course Harlem. The result is a fresh look at Hughes, not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language, but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation.
Download or read book The Science of American Football written by Jay R. Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game of American football may be the greatest team sport that exists. It epitomizes the need of a "team" first approach to achieve the desired success. Success is often measured as the hoisting of a championship trophy, which involved a journey that required discipline, perseverance, sacrifice, and hard work. These traits are the backbone of success in football, but more importantly they are the backbone or blueprint for success in life. The Science of American Football provides an in-depth discussion on the physiology of the game of American football, including the physiological strain associated with playing in various environmental extremes. Acclimatization, preparation, and medical issues associated with each of these environmental extremes are discussed as well as medical issues occurring during the athlete’s playing career (common sites of injury) and potential risks arising post-career (e.g. neurological dysfunction, arthritic joints, obesity). The book goes on to consider aspects of player selection and preparation, including discussion of evidence-based physical conditioning programs, appropriate nutrition, and specific dietary supplementation for the American football player. The Science of American Football is the first book to focus on the physiology, science, and medical issues associated with the game of American football and will be key reading for students of coaching and exercise science as well as those with a keen interest in understanding the science of American football, such as coaches and players.
Download or read book Managing High Performance Sport written by Popi Sotiriadou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on real-world case-studies of elite sport around the world, this book shows a conceptual framework for studying and analysing high performance sport and introduces the skills and techniques that managers and administrators will need to develop effective HPS programmes.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology written by Shane M. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes current research findings in the study of human performance Experts from all fields of performance are brought together, covering domains including sports, the performing arts, business, executive coaching, the military, and other applicable, high-risk professions.
Download or read book Total Training for Young Champions written by Tudor O. Bompa and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete training and conditioning program is now available for coaches, parents, and strength and conditioning experts who work with young athletes, ages 6 to 16. 300 illustrations.
Download or read book Flow in Sports written by Susan A. Jackson and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With help from sports psychology researcher Jackson, Csikszentmihalyi (human behavior, U. of Chicago) pares down his now-famous concept of flow to basic explanations and self-assessment exercises. Emphasis is on achieving a balance between challenges and skills, setting goals, taking advantage of feedback, focusing on the present, controlling the controllables, and having fun. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Sport Development in the United States written by Peter Smolianov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States, a global sporting giant with a unique, market-driven sporting landscape. Presenting an innovative model of integrated sports development, the book explores the inter-relationship between elite and mass sport across history, drawing on comparative international examples from Australia to the former USSR and Eastern bloc countries. At the heart of the book is an in-depth empirical study of three (traditional and emerging) sports in the US – tennis, soccer and rugby – that offer important lessons on the development of elite sport, methods for increasing participation, and the establishment of new sports in new markets. No other book has attempted to model sports development in the United States in such depth before. Therefore this should be essential reading for all students, researchers, administrators or policy-makers with an interest in sports development, sports management, sports policy, or comparative, international sport studies.
Download or read book Learning Culture Through Sports written by Sandra Spickard Prettyman and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. In this text, authors take up the challenges faced by sport in our world, especially as it relates to the lives of young people, providing multiple perspectives on the issues, problems, and possibilities of sport in contemporary American society.
Download or read book Coaching the Young Developing Performer written by Istvan Balyi and published by Coachwise 1st4sport. This book was released on 2009 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're training growing youngsters, regardless of age and ability, you need to know exactly where their bodies are at in terms of development - especially during puberty. Coaching the Young Developing Performer has been produced with the aim of helping coaches further their understanding of coaching children and young performers through growing, developing years. The focus is on the monitoring of young performers' growth and development in order to plan and implement appropriate training and competition programmes. This book will help coaches and other support staff recognise the opportunities this information gives them, both to develop the potential of more performers, and to give every performer the best deal. To make a real difference, coaches must not only further their knowledge and understanding in this area, but actually apply their learning in practice for the optimal benefit of their young performers. Throughout the book, there are many references to research and discussion papers, so you have the opportunity to study specific issues in more detail.
Download or read book Willy Brandt and International Relations written by Bernd Rother and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are many books that deal with Brandt's foreign policy as West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt and International Relations is the only book to deal with Brandt's politics as elder statesman between 1974 and 1992. The editors have assembled a group of authors from Germany, the USA, Latin America and Europe to assess Brandt's important role in global affairs during the waning decades of the Cold War. The chapters follow Brandt beyond his resignation as Chancellor in 1974, after which he continued his position as chairman of Social Democratic party and became chairman of the Socialist International. His international politics were above all focused on Europe, Latin America and the United States. He was keen on finding new partners in the 'Third World' such as Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to conflicts with the U.S. administration which caused problems for West German foreign policy. The authors also examine global challenges that occurred after 1989, such as Brandt's handling of German unification, the Kuwait crisis of 1991 and the first Gulf War. Willy Brandt and International Relations provides a new perspective on decades of Cold War relations and beyond through the work of an influential statesman and political thinker. It is an illuminating book for students and scholars of the Cold War and international relations.
Download or read book Entanglements Or Transmedial Thinking about Capture written by Rey Chow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.
Download or read book Elite Sport Development written by Mick Green and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergence, development and status of an elite sport development policy in swimming, track and field, and sailing in Australia, Canada and the UK.
