Last Minute Gifts to Buy for…..Yourself: Developing Sport Expertise

With Christmas rapidly approaching and shopping days swiftly diminishing, many of you may be looking for last minute gifts to reward yourself with (no need to be ashamed, we all do it!). Therefore, over the next couple of days, I will be profiling several items that may contribute (either directly or indirectly) to sports health and athletic performance. While none of these products should be considered a “be all, end all”, when incorporated correctly, they can contribute greatly to one’s current regime.

Gift idea #3

Developing Sport Expertise by Farrow, Baker, and MacMahon

This text, co-written by a colleague and mentor of mine, Joe Baker, is one of those hidden gems that should be in the library of any professional working with athletes. As the internet is littered with information pertaining to athletic development, it is easy for one to get lost in theoretical practice not founded by research. This particular text does the opposite and gathers the current available literature into a concise, easy to read, resource pertaining to athletic development and firmly grounded in scientific evidence...

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Developing Expertise in Sport – How Research Can Inform Practice

Section 1: Developing Elite Athletes: From the Backyard to the Big Stage

2. Play, Practice and Athlete Development

3. Does Practice Make Perfect?: The Role of Training in Developing the Expert Athlete

4. The Motivation to Become an Expert Athlete: How Coaches can Promote Long-Term Commitment

5. Identifying and Developing Sporting Experts

Section 2: Designing Practice to Make Athletes Think – (But Not Too Much)!

6. Expert Coaches in Action

7. Skill Learning the Implicit Way: Say No More!

8. Performance Pressure and Paralysis by Analysis: Research and Implications

9. Organising Practice: The Interaction of Repetition and Cognitive Effort for Skill Performance

Section 3: Through the Eyes and Thoughts of an Expert

10. A Recipe for Expert Decision Making

11. Tactics: Using Knowledge to Enhance Sport Performance

12. The Sports Official in Research and Practice

13. The Past and Future of Applied Sport Expertise Research

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