Practical skills in sport and exercise science

Cover......Page 1
Practical Skills in Sport and Exercise Science......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of boxes......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Guided tour......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Study and examination skills......Page 18
 1. The importance of transferable skills......Page 20
 2. Managing your time......Page 24
 3. Working with others......Page 28
 4. Taking notes from lectures and texts......Page 34
 5. Learning and revising......Page 39
 6. Curriculum options, assessment and exams......Page 48
 7. Preparing your curriculum vitae or resume......Page 57
Information technology and library resources ......Page 64
 8. Finding and citing published information ......Page 66
 9. Evaluating information......Page 72
 10. Using online resources......Page 80
 11. Using spreadsheets......Page 90
 12. Word processors, databases and other packages......Page 96
Communicating information......Page 104
 13. Reporting and interpreting test results......Page 106
 14. General aspects of scientific writing......Page 111
 15. Writing essays and literature reviews......Page 118
 16. Organising a poster display......Page 124
 17. Giving a spoken presentation......Page 129
The investigative approach......Page 136
 18. The principles of measurement......Page 138
 19. Making valid and reliable measurements......Page 142
 20. SI units and their use......Page 149
 21. Scientific method and design of experiments......Page 156
 22. Conducting and writing up project work......Page 162
Fundamental laboratory techniques......Page 168
 23. Your approach to practical work......Page 170
 24. Health and safety......Page 174
 25. Working with body fluids ......Page 182
Pre-exercise screening ......Page 190
 26. Preparing for fitness tests ......Page 192
 27. Pre-exercise health screening procedures......Page 196
Basic laboratory procedures......Page 204
 28. Blood and urine collection and analysis......Page 206
 29. Measuring cardiac function......Page 214
 30. Testing pulmonary function......Page 228
 31. Measuring endurance exercise intensity......Page 238
 32. Measuring hydration status and body temperature......Page 245
 33. Measuring flexibility......Page 253
 34. Kinanthropometry......Page 259
 35. Measuring body composition......Page 270
Measuring physiological capacities......Page 280
 36. Measuring maximal aerobic capacity......Page 282
 37. Indirect measures of aerobic capacity......Page 291
 38. Measuring energy expenditure and physical activity......Page 298
 39. Measuring anaerobic power and capacity......Page 311
 40. Measuring muscle strength and endurance......Page 321
 41. Common field tests......Page 334
 42. Specific field tests......Page 345
Calculating physiological measures......Page 352
 43. Measuring endurance training thresholds......Page 354
 44. Measuring economy of exercise......Page 361
 45. Monitoring training load......Page 366
Analysis and presentation of data......Page 374
 46. Manipulating and transforming raw data......Page 376
 47. Graphs......Page 380
 48. Presenting data in tables......Page 391
 49. Descriptive statistics......Page 395
 50. Choosing and using statistical tests......Page 406
 51. Statistics for sport and exercise science......Page 418
Index......Page 422