Sport and Exercise

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I always advocate publishing content (articles, blogs) on multiple web platforms, to really put it work as a marketing tool, so when I heard about Google Knol I was immediately interested. A 'Knol' is, according to Google, a unit of knowledge. Essentially Google Knol is a collection of articles, but the twist is that is that you can allow other users to edit your own 'Knols', either moderated or unmoderated.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are as many as 300,000 sports and recreation-related concussions each year in the U.S., yet the diagnosis, immediate treatment and long-term effects are still a mystery to most coaches, parents and even some clinicians. So what i a concussion?

Imagine winning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. No really, go ahead, close your eyes and visualize it. What did you see? Were you standing on the medal platform looking out at the crowd, waving and taking in the scene through your own eyes, or were you a spectator in the crowd watching yourself getting the medal put around your neck? This choice between "first-person" or "third-person" visualization actually makes a difference on our motivation to achieve a future goal.

Inspired by watching the GB canoe slalom team struggle in Beijing, Jonathan Males asks whether it is best to focus on the outcome goals, or to take care of the process required to win.

This week has seen two football managers from the English Premier League (West Ham and Newcastle United, respectively) quit their posts. In both cases the issue appears to be their loss of control over transfers, and perhaps other aspects of the club management.Does this signal the end of the British football manager?

This article discusses how to create psychological momentum in team sports like football.

At this writing, every respectable sports team uniform manufacturer in the free world has some variation to promote in the "performance" category. If I never hear the word "anti-microbial" again, I will die a happy man, but I don't suspect that'll happen.

How do youth footballers define success and failure, what they perceive to be the consequences of success and failure? What are the types and levels of fears of failure, and how does their fear of failure affects the? What contributes towards their fear of failure and how they cope with these fears? This article attempts to answer these questions

You can be very vulnerable when approaching your parked vehicle or waiting in your stopped vehicle. Here are 10 basic rules of car self-defense everyone should know.

What would you do if your were walking down the street and someone collapsed and stopped breathing? This article shares basics of life support "CPR", this is sometimes called basic life support.

Sporting contests at all levels are often won and lost by the smallest of margins, and confidence can make all the difference to performance.

So much in sport revolves around key moments and turning points during competitions. Losing focus and motivation at critical times always damages performance.

iStadia member Sam Kotadia, through his company Mindsport Ltd, has just released a range of sport psychology 'self-help' cards for athletes and students that will help you to keep mental strategies to hand at all times. We are delighted to be able to offer these through the iStadia Marketplace.

Implementing a sport programme in a post-disaster area is more than just bringing a ball and telling people to kick it around. In fact, if done improperly, these efforts can actually cause more harm than good by further dividing an already split community. This is why it is important to learn proper strategies.

Have you seen Stade Francais new 'Warhol' inspired rugby kit for the Heineken cup? What is the psychology of team kits?

Why is it that an overweight, undertrained 35 year old can d the times he did as a 17 year old swimmer? And no, the answer isn't "the suit"...

You have your eye on that star athlete whom you would really like to see wearing your team's uniform next year. You have written letters, made a couple of calls, but are looking for that extra edge to put your school on top as their number one choice.

Get the latest Tennis news from around the world. Read the latest blogs and articles on tennis and tennis performance from the professionals.

Read the latest blogs and articles from sport psychology professionals who are members of iStadia's global sport & exercise community.