Abstract:

Sports offer both competition and a path to fitness. Accordingly, sports science has grown beyond the exclusive application of science toward improving competitive performance to applications that improve the quality of life and health. Sports and the advances in sports science have, however, increasing impact on broad segments of society… World of Sports Science is a collection of nearly 600 entries that evidence the wide application of science to sport and that place special emphasis on the basic science related to introductory concepts related to muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular efficiency, oxygen use, and the importance of flexibility--all critical elements of fitness and athletic performance. The science in this book is simplified so that it offers straightforward but accurate descriptions of measurements of both general and specialized topics--ranging from entries related to anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology to more specialized treatments of injury prevention, nutrition, the calculation of muscle to fat ratios.  (download to read more) — K. Lee Lerner & Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. London, U.K. July, 2006.