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Being Your Own Best Teammate: How Self-Compassion Can Promote and Improve Body Image and Eating Concerns In Men

AASP

While this issue often gets significant attention among women, it is essential to recognize that men also face body image challenges, especially in contexts where physical size, shape, and appearance play a crucial role, such as athletics. In consideration of athletes, it has been associated with higher well-being (Zessin et al.,

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Unleashing the Power of Sports Psychology: 8 Powerful Benefits For Athletes

The Sporting

A Guide to Sports Psychology and 8 Important Benefits for Athletes Sports psychology has emerged as a vital field within the realm of athletics. It offers invaluable tools for athletes to enhance their performance and mental well-being.

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How Music Can Help Athletes Recover from Sports Injuries

AASP

<p>When athletes experience a sport-related injury, there is usually a predictable process they will experience during rehabilitation. Then, the athlete will undergo surgery and/or physical therapy. Once this stage of recovery is complete, the athlete is then considered healthy enough to return to their sport.

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Gaining Athlete Buy-In – Ideas and Strategies for Successful Monitoring

First Beat

The key to any successful monitoring strategy in sports is having buy-in from the athletes. Without athlete buy-in, it will likely be difficult to get reliable and valid data. But how do you gain that buy-in from your athletes?

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Teaching Physical Literacy within Physical Education

Physical Education Ideas

In my last blog post I outlined what physical literacy is, it's benefits and briefly outlined what it can look like at a school level. It delivers physical, psychological, social and cognitive health and wellbeing benefits. A 2023 case study was conducted by the Australian Institute of Sport. teacher?

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The Reality of Teaching Life Skills Through Sport

MSU

Life skill development and positive youth development (PYD) is often tied to youth sport. In this post, I will share the research on PYD in sport and provide some strategies for promoting PYD in your context. However, positive youth development (PYD) has become a hot button topic in sport. By Dr. Jennifer Roth.

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Resolving Running-Related Injury

Informed Practitioner in Sport

EDITOR’S NOTE: To mark the launch of our second e-learning course on the sports injury theme, the following is an excerpt from the opening of the newly launched course ‘Resolving Running-Related Injury’. Running features prominently in sports and athletic events.