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Exercise Physiology in Special Populations covers the prevalent
health conditions that are either linked to an inactive lifestyle
or whose effects can be ameliorated by increasing physical activity
and physical fitness. The book explores physiological aspects of
obesity and diabetes before moving on to cardiac disease, lung
disease, arthritis and back pain, ageing and older people, bone
health, the female participant, neurological and neuromuscular
disorders, and spinal chord injury. The author team includes many
of the UK's leading researchers and exercise science and
rehabilitation practitioners that specialise in each of the topic
areas. New to the popular Advances in Sport and Exercise Science
series, this book covers key aspects of exercise physiology
including: .Coronary Heart Disease & Cardiac Dysfunction
.Neurological disorders (Strokes, Parkinson's Disease, Multiple
Sclerosis, Head Injury) .Spinal cord injuries .Obesity &
Diabetes .Amputees .Downs syndrome .Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease .Musculo-rheumatological disorders and pain .Bone Health
.Older People .HIV/Aids .The female exercise participant *
Structured in an easy accessible way for students and lecturers*
Well referenced, including a further reading list with each
chapter..* Written by a group of highly experienced experts.
This book provides an in-depth explanation of coaching science
using both theoretical and practical models for training, across a
wide range of sporting disciplines. It uniquely encompasses the
increasing number of available research and review publications,
supported by practical examples. The editorial and author team
include Olympic and World Championship medalists from a variety of
sports, enabling them to offer a unique perspective on the
presentation of coaching science. Presents comprehensive coverage
of the physiology of training. Outstanding list of contributors,
including Olympic and World Championship Medallists from a variety
of sports. Theory presented is underscored by practical examples
across a broad range of athletics, providing a special blend of
information combined with practical application. Exclusive chapters
address training and medical conditions, as well as training and
the environment. Clearly organized structure allows rapid access to
desired information, making it a prime resource and practical
teaching tool.
In pre-scientific thought mind itself, and its religious
perceptions particularly, were considered gifts from God, injected
into a previously created world of matter. By contrast, all the
contributors to this book accept an evolutionary account of life,
mind and its religious dispositions. However they hold more
divergent views on the relation of mind to body and brain, on the
validity of those religious dispositions, and on how far even
Christ, and his predicted Second Coming, may be seen as aspectc of
the evolutionary process. The seventeen contributions are rewritten
and extended versions of papers first delivered at the annual
conference of the UK's Science and Religion Forum, held at
Canterbury Christ Church College in Sept 2007. Though most speakers
were British, representatives from The Netherlands, Jordan,
Zimbabwe and USA also contributed. Invited individual chapters
consider the general pattern of evolutionary thought, arguing that
it can make a major contribution to the maturation of theology;
archeological evidence for the emergence of religion, and the
proposal that it was an inevitable phase in human evolution; the
contribution of religious concepts to the development of our
species, and the question whether that provides any ground for
accepting them as true; the unresolved debate whether mind is a
separate entity from brain, or a consequence of its activity; and
the melding of paleo-anthropology with theology to provide an
integrated account of humanity and its culmination in Christ. Each
of these papers is the subject of an individual expert response,
and they are all drawn together in an overview essay which
concludes the first part of the book. The second, shorter part
contains a selection from the papers contributed by registrants for
the meeting. Their topics are whether mathematics consists of
truths discovered, or thought-forms developed, by human minds;
ecological awareness as an evolutionary development; the
neurobiology of freewill and sin; an evolutionary perspective on
holistic medicine; and the impressive fruitfulness of juxtaposing
neurophysiological and biblical concepts of the human body-mind.
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