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Psychology of Coaching (1926), Psychology of Athletics (1928) Coleman Roberts Griffith (May 22, 1893 – February 7, 1966) was an American sport psychologist. Born in Iowa, he is considered [by whom?] the founder of American sport psychology. [1] Griffith studied at Greenville College until 1915, and then studied psychology at the University of ...
Bruce Ogilvie was born in 1920 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Ogilvie met his wife, Eva Diane, in 1938 and married her in 1943. He attended the University of San Francisco and studied psychology and also received his masters from Portland State. Shortly after his marriage the family moved to London so Ogilvie could pursue his PhD.
Sports periodization. Periodization is a cyclical method of planning and managing athletic or physical training and involves progressive cycling of various aspects of a training program during a specific period. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Conditioning programs can use periodization to break up the training program into the off-season, preseason, inseason, and ...
The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) a multidisciplinary association of scholars from the behavioral sciences. . Organization is related professions with the goals of promoting the scientific study of human behavior in sport and physical activity, facilitating dissemination of scientific knowledge, and advancing the improvement of research and
Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally incorporates areas of physiology (exercise physiology), psychology (sport psychology), anatomy ...
Agility or nimbleness is an ability to change the body's position quickly and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, endurance, flexibility, speed and strength. More specifically, it is dependent on these six motor skills: Balance: The ability to maintain equilibrium when stationary or ...
Not to be confused with Norman Triplett (baseball). Norman Triplett (October 1, 1861 – 1934) was a psychologist at Indiana University. He is best known for conducting one of the earliest experiments in social psychology, on the phenomenon of social facilitation. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]
Psychol. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal was established in 2011 and covers research "that supports the application of psychological principles to facilitate peak sport performance, enhance physical activity participation, and ...