Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance: Theoretical and Applied

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction ¿ defining, delineating, and driving elite performance; PART I Coaching elites ¿ art and science; 1. The principles of elite coaching ¿ blending knowledge, experience, and novelty; 2. Being the personal coach; 3. Being the national coach in an Olympic sport; 4. Coaching a national team in professional football; 5. Doing it week in, week out 6. Coaching in action/adventure sports ¿ a novel challenge; 7. Specialist coaching ¿ coaching quarterbacks in NFL, college, and high school; 8. Developing the players of tomorrow PART II The appliance of science ¿ uni-disciplinary perspectives 9. Physiology ¿ working in endurance 10. Strength and conditioning in the elite team sport environment 11. Performance analysis ¿ working in football 12. Working with psychology in professional football 13. Keeping them on the pitch 14. Medical practice with elite athletes PART III The appliance of science ¿ interdisciplinary perspectives 15. Effective performance support ¿ an integrated view 16. Interdisciplinary performance development in elite sport ¿ applied sport science 17. Using data in football 18. Research and innovation ¿ seeking and securing competitive advantage PART IV Managing elite performance systems 19. Culture, leadership, and management with elites 20. Developing elites ¿ academy systems 21. Supporting performance ¿ a national institute perspective 22. The performance director¿s role 23. Leading a national system 24. Managing a professional football club 25. Managing impressions and relationships when speaking to the sports media PART V Fitting systems to societies 26 Fitting within the social milieu 27. Vive la difference ¿ perspectives on the challenges of being a woman in high-level sport 28. Developing coaches and players around the globe 29. The coach nomad 30. The transition to elite performance ¿ societal contrasts in the same sport PART VI Living in the system ¿ the performer perspective 31. The new kids on the block 32. Staying at the top in Olympic rowing for 25 years 33. Playing home and away ¿ and away and away 34. Life AND sport ¿ making it happen AND progressing while you play PART VII Integration ¿ making it all work 35. Driving the performance system ¿ DOES research help? 36. Working in the jungle ¿ how should elite sport practitioners operate and be developed? 37. Creating long-term high performing teams Index