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The science of athletics / F. A. M. Webster.

By: Publication details: London : Nicholas Kaye, 1948.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 333 p. : ill., ports ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
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Contents:
Considerations in conditioning athletes -- Health aspects and health training -- Lessons to be learned from facial expression -- Human mechanism -- Considerations in relation to competition -- Athletics tests and measurements of ability -- Records and record breaking -- Elimination of human error -- Skill and physical cleverness -- Success or failure --Diagram and deductional calculation teaching -- Some mathematics in athletics -- Some more mathematics in athletics -- Mechanics and leverage -- Foods, fads and facts -- Heat, light and energy -- Athletic psychology -- The build of the athlete.
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Originally published in 1936 in London by John F. Shaw and Co.

List of illustrations.

Portrait of the author as frontispiece.

Considerations in conditioning athletes -- Health aspects and health training -- Lessons to be learned from facial expression -- Human mechanism -- Considerations in relation to competition -- Athletics tests and measurements of ability -- Records and record breaking -- Elimination of human error -- Skill and physical cleverness -- Success or failure --Diagram and deductional calculation teaching -- Some mathematics in athletics -- Some more mathematics in athletics -- Mechanics and leverage -- Foods, fads and facts -- Heat, light and energy -- Athletic psychology -- The build of the athlete.

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