Sport, Recovery, and Performance

Fifteen years after the publication of Enhancing Recovery it is time for another resource that brings together cutting-edge research on the importance of recovery for athletic performance and health. Michael Kellmann and Jrgen Beckmann have gathered the worlds leading scholars from both psychology and physiology in a joint perspective on recovery research and its practical application. This books interdisciplinarity is unique and an advancement that many other research areas could profit from. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn from the best on how to improve the performance and health of athletes by enhancing their recovery. Dr. Anne-Marie Elbe, President of FEPSAC (European Federation of Sport Psychology)

Prof. Dr Michael Kellmann is Head of Unit of Sport Psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is also Honorary Professor in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prof. Dr Jrgen Beckmann is Chair of Sport Psychology at the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at Technical University of Munich, Germany. He was president of the German Society for Sport Psychology (asp), editor in chief of the German Journal of Sport Psychology, and on the editorial board of several international journals (currently Frontiers in Psychology).

Preface Part I: Conceptualizing the problem Chapter 1: Monitoring the recovery-stress state in athletes Chapter 2: Developing athlete monitoring systems: Theoretical basis and practical applications Chapter 3: Perceptions and practices of recovery modalities in elite team athletes Part II: Psychophysiological determinants of under-recovery Chapter 4: Overtraining what do we know? Chapter 5: Recovery-stress balance and psychobiosocial states monitoring of road cyclists Chapter 6: Psychophysiological features of soccer players recovery-stress balance during the in-season competitive phase Chapter 7: Managing the training load of overreached athletes: Insights from the tapering and detraining literature Chapter 8: Recovery-stress balance and injury risk in team sports Chapter 9: Stress, underrecovery and health problems in athletes Chapter 10: Quantification of training and competition loads in endurance sports: A key to stress-recovery balance and performance Part III: The impact of sleep on recovery. Chapter 11: The role of sleep in maximising performance in elite athletes Chapter 12: Sleep, dreams and athletic performance Chapter 13: Domestic and international travel: Implications for performance and recovery in team-sport athletes Part IV: Transfer to related areas. Chapter 14: What do sport coaches know about recovery? Chapter 15: Stress and recovery in extreme situations Chapter 16: Stress and recovery in applied settings: Long working hours, recovery, and breaks Chapter 17: Psychological relaxation techniques to enhance recovery in sports Chapter 18: Sport, recovery and performance: A concluding summary