Full Description
Success in high performance sport is highly valued in today's world, with lucrative contracts, sponsorship deals, and opportunities for celebrity status balanced against substantial investments of time and energy, and high chances of failure. With pressure mounting on athletes and coaches to make the most of athletic investments, the temptation to make health-related or ethical compromises is growing.
Sustainability in High Performance Sport examines the pressures faced by coaches and athletes, and considers how sustainable science can offer alternative pathways to sporting excellence. By applying principles relating to carrying capacities, complexity and uncertainty, production and consumption, and ethics, this unique book provides new ways of thinking about both enduring and emerging challenges. With a scope that includes themes such as coaching practices, coach-athlete relationships, over-training and injuries, the development of sporting expertise, and doping, Sustainability in High Performance Sport is the most comprehensive exploration of sustainability in elite sport available. It is an invaluable resource for anybody with an interest in achieving long-term success in high performance sport. This book was originally published as a special issue of Reflective Practice.
Contents
1. High performance sport and sustainability: a contradiction of terms? 2. Coaches' learning and sustainability in high performance sport 3. Caring as an important foundation in coaching for social sustainability: a case study of a successful Swedish coach in high-performance sport 4. Alternative discourses in the coaching of high performance youth sport: exploring language of sustainability 5. Techno-rational knowing and phronesis: the professional practice of one middle-distance running coach 6. Reaching balance and sustainability: weight regulation in combat sports. A case study of a female boxer 7. Growth problems in youth elite sports. Social conditions, athletes' experiences and sustainability consequences 8. 'Just do a little more': examining expertise in high performance sport from a sociocultural learning perspective 9. Shifting the burden of proof in doping: lessons from environmental sustainability applied to high-performance sport
