Sport, Recovery, and Performance

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 Jürgen 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).

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

‘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 Jürgen Beckmann have gathered the world’s leading scholars from both psychology and physiology in a joint perspective on recovery research and its practical application. This book’s 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)