John Bale / Tim Noakes / Craig Sharp (eds.)

East African Running

Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Herausgeber: Bale, John; Sharp, Craig; Pitsiladis, Yannis

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Produktbeschreibung

What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world? How should contemporary academia approach this question? The success of East African distance runners has generated a plethora of studies but much of the 'evidence' presented to support hypotheses is anecdotal, arguments being led by non-academics who use popular media as their medium rather than relying on scientific publications. This has resulted in many stereotypical arguments being advocated. Within the academic community, research has also been restricted by its isolation within either the natural science or social science communities. East African Running: Towards a Cross Disciplinary Perspective, presents a rare collaboration between researchers from the sports sciences and social sciences to explore the questions raised by the phenomena of East African success on the track. The text includes: psycho-social and economic explanations physiological and genetic explanations attempts to provide unified theories bringing together ideas from natural and social sciences Includes contributions from John Bale, Jim Denison, Timothy D. Noakes and Craig Sharp.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780415377881
• ISBN-10: 0415377889
• Artikelnr.: 22529340

Autorenporträt

Yannis Pitsiladis, John Bale, Craig Sharp, Tim Noakes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Notes on Contributors Part 1: Socio-Economic and Cultural
Perspectives 1. Kenyan Running Before the 1968 Mexico Olympics 2. The
Promise and Possibilities of Running In and Out of East Africa 3. Raiders
from the Rift Valley: Cattle Raiding and Distance Running in East Africa 4.
The Haile Gebrselassie Story: A Biography of Difference Part 2:
Physiological Perspectives 5. Outstanding Performance Despite Low Fluid
Intake: The Kenyan Running Experience 6. Energy Balance and Body
Composition of Elite Endurance Runners: A Hunter-Gatherer Phenotype 7. Diet
and Endurance Performance of Kenyan Runners: A Physiological Perspective 8.
Dominance of Kenyan Kalenjins in Middle- and Long-Distance Running 9.
Understanding the Dominance of African Endurance Runners: Exercise Biology
and an Integrative Model 10. Studies of Physiological and Neuromuscular
Function of Black South African Distance Runners 11. Erythropoietic Indices
in Elite Kenyan Runners Training at Altitude: Effects of Descent to Sea
Level Part 3: Athleticogenomic Perspectives 12. Genes and Human Elite
Athletic Performance 13. Genetics and Endurance Performance 14. Evidence
for the 'Natural' East African Athlete