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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Who’s in Charge Here?: Setting the Race Pace
Optimal Pacing Strategy
Picking the Pace: Distance and Speed
Picking the Pace: Selecting the Pattern of Speed
Pacing in Other Sports
What Research Tells Us
Picking the Pace: Doing as They Do
Chapter 2: Marching to the Same Drummer: Cadence in Endurance Events
The Beat Goes On: The Motor Controller
Central Pattern Generator
Human Beings as Aerobic Endurance Animals
Chapter 3: Dragsters, Tiger Beetles, and Usain Bolt: Time and Speed
The Human Machine
Determinants of Sprint Performance: Stride Length or Frequency?
Implications of the CPG Beyond the Track
Chapter 4: Night and Day: Circadian Rhythms and Sport Performance
Circadian Rhythms
Circadian Rhythms and the Athlete
Physiological and Metabolic Variables
Implications for Sport Performance
Intrinsic Circadian Rhythms of Performance
Implications for Athletes
Chapter 5: It’s all in the Timing: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
Musicians Keeping Time
Challenges of Perceptuomotor Timing in Sports
Athletes: Masters of Perceptuomotor Timing
Do Athletes Defy the Rules? Testing the Limits of Perceptual Timing
What Training Studies Say About Improvement
Descartes Meets Tim Noakes: Does Self-Determinism Really Exist?
Can Athletes Slow Down Time?
Chapter 6: Getting Better all the Time: The Development of Athletic Skill During the Childhood Years-A Conversation With Bob Malina
A Pertinent Topic
Effect of Birth Date
Limited Insights
Power of Practice
Does Success Breed Success?
Early Identification of Talent
An Alternative Approach
Chapter 7: Over the Hill: Aging and Sport Performance
Categories of Aging
Physical Activity and Longevity
Why Do We Age?
Physical Activity and Body Composition During Aging
Difficulties of Studying the Effect of Aging on Performance
Aging Clock, Motor Capacity, and Athletic Performance
Coda
Index
About the Author
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