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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of 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 |
