Full Description
The global increase in viewership of and participation in women's football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the specific scientific and health issues that determine successful performance for women. Women's Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women's footballing development.
This cutting-edge text puts developing elite women footballers at the front and centre of its core aim, through the delivery of evidence-based, scientific information focusing on best practice. As such, each chapter is co-written, where possible, by a scholar and a practitioner or player (e.g., coach, footballer), meaning the scientific principles and research presented within are translated clearly into practice.
Women's Football is essential reading for anyone who is involved with the game, including footballers themselves, as well as strength and conditioning coaches, physiotherapists, medics, nutritionists, sport psychologists, sports scientists, coaches, coach developers, technical directors, general managers, governing body personnel and club owners, from grassroots to elite level. The book is also invaluable to students and academics in sport and exercise, who are studying this topic.
Contents
1. Global Context and Organisation
2. Advancing Women's Football Through Strategic Holistic Workforce Development: Payment, Conditions and Policies
3. Match Demands and Physiological Determinants
Naomi Datson, Ross Julian, and Barry Drust
4. Talent Identification
5. The Menstrual Cycle and Hormone-Based Contraception
6. Menstrual Cycle Monitoring, Application and Implementation
7. Pregnancy and Motherhood
8. Sports Nutrition Needs
9. Eating Disorders and Elite Women's Football
10. Disordered Eating and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (Red-S): A Case Study
11. Psychosocial Development and Transitions
12. Mental Health in Professional Women's Football
13. Breast Health
14. Injury Epidemiology
15. Concussion
16. Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
17. Reflection And Reflecting on Football Coach Education in Connection with Identity, Process and Practice
