Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science series is a showcase for cutting-edge research from across the sport and exercise sciences, including physiology, psychology, biomechanics, motor control, physical activity and health, and every core sub-discipline. Featuring the work of established and emerging scientists and practitioners from around the world, and covering the theoretical, investigative and applied dimensions of sport and exercise, this series is an important channel for new and ground-breaking research in the human movement sciences.
Sports Science in India: Practice and Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Toms, Meenu Dhingra, Pralay Majumdar
July 30, 2025
Sports Science in India: Practice and Perspective brings together key Indian academics and experts in the field of sports science (in its broadest sense) to produce summaries of the existing international research in fundamental topics of sport science with a focus on India in such a way that it ...
Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Gal Ziv, Ronnie Lidor
January 31, 2025
Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport is the first book that explores various aspects of gaze and visual perception in sport. The way athletes control their gaze and their ability to extract relevant information from the environment is important for their ability to perform sport-related motor tasks....
Skill Acquisition for Judo: Principles into Practice
1st Edition
By Darren Warner
December 15, 2024
First introduced as an Olympic sport in Tokyo 1964, judo is a dynamic grappling sport where it’s competitors win by throwing and pinning their opponents to the floor or forcing submission through armlocks or strangles. To become an elite judoka, athletes are required to develop a high level of ...
Relative Age Effects in Sport: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jess Dixon, Sean Horton, Laura Chittle, Joe Baker
May 06, 2022
Individual achievement in sport is often constrained by an athlete’s age relative to the peers with whom they participate. A common practice within sport and educational domains is to group youth based on their chronological ages to help promote equal competition, age appropriate instruction, and ...
The Exercising Female: Science and Its Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacky Forsyth, Claire-Marie Roberts
September 30, 2021
The Exercising Female: Science and Its Application is the first book to provide students, researchers, and professionals with an evidence-based reference on the exceptional scientific issues associated with female participation in sport and exercise. Based on the latest research, and treating ...
Complex Sport Analytics
1st Edition
By Felix Lebed
January 31, 2019
This book is the first to combine principles from analytics, complex systems theory, multi-disciplinary diagnostics and sport performance analysis. It considers athletes, teams, and sport organizations in individual and team games as complex systems, and demonstrates how complexity studies can ...
The Science of Climbing and Mountaineering
1st Edition
Edited
By Ludovic Seifert, Peter Wolf, Andreas Schweizer
April 16, 2018
This is the first book to explore in depth the science of climbing and mountaineering. Written by a team of leading international sport scientists, clinicians and climbing practitioners, it covers the full span of technical disciplines, including rock climbing, ice climbing, indoor climbing and ...
The Psychology of Doping in Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis
February 07, 2017
This is the first book to draw together cutting-edge research on the psychological processes underlying doping use in sport and exercise, thereby filling an important gap in our understanding of this centrally important issue in contemporary sport. Covering diverse areas of psychology such as ...
Life Story Research in Sport: Understanding the Experiences of Elite and Professional Athletes through Narrative
1st Edition
By Kitrina Douglas, David Carless
August 26, 2016
What is life really like for the elite athlete? How does the experience of being a professional sports person differ from the popular perceptions of fans, journalists or academics? Why might elite sports people experience mental health difficulties away from the public gaze? In the first ...
Computer Science in Sport: Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Arnold Baca
May 31, 2016
Computers are a fundamentally important tool in sport science research, sports performance analysis and, increasingly, in coaching and education programmes in sport. This book defines the field of ‘sport informatics’, explaining how computer science can be used to solve sport-related problems, in ...
Eccentric Exercise: Physiology and application in sport and rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Hans Hoppeler
May 31, 2016
Eccentric muscle contraction, during which a muscle lengthens while under tension, is a fundamental process of human movement but a surprisingly under-researched area of exercise science. Evidence suggests that training programmes which incorporate both eccentric and concentric contractions can ...
Complex Systems in Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Davids, Robert Hristovski, Duarte Araújo, Natalia Balague Serre, Chris Button, Pedro Passos
July 16, 2015
Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as ...