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Continuous Improvement: Intertwining Mind and Body in Athletic Expertise de John Toner

Continuous Improvement: Intertwining Mind and Body in Athletic Expertise

Autor John Toner, Barbara Montero, Aidan Moran
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2021

Remarcăm o lacună persistentă în literatura academică dedicată sportului de performanță: în timp ce majoritatea studiilor analizează drumul spre expertiză, puține explică mecanismele prin care atleții de elită evită plafonarea descrisă de „legea puterii în practică”. Volumul Continuous Improvement vine să umple acest gol, propunând o teorie a îmbunătățirii continue bazată pe integrarea conștientă a minții și a corpului în procesul de antrenament.

Apreciem modul în care autorii John Toner, Barbara Montero și Aidan Moran demontează mitul automatismului pur în performanța de vârf. Lucrarea este comparabilă cu Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part B în rigurozitatea științifică, dar este actualizat pentru a evidenția flexibilitatea atențională — capacitatea sportivului de a folosi reflecția și gândirea abstractă pentru a modifica rutinele corporale în plină competiție. Dacă în A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology, Aidan Moran punea bazele teoretice ale disciplinei, aici observăm o focalizare precisă pe strategiile motorii folosite de figuri precum Roger Federer sau Serena Williams pentru a-și menține excelența pe perioade extinse.

Textul sintetizează date din psihologie cognitivă, sociologie și kinetoterapie, oferind un cadru metodologic esențial pentru curriculumul de psihologie sportivă. Observăm că această ediție publicată de OUP Oxford pune un accent deosebit pe stabilizarea performanței sub presiune, oferind soluții practice pentru antrenori și cercetători. Este o resursă care depășește simpla descriere a succesului, oferind un model testabil de rafinare continuă a abilităților motorii, esențial pentru orice program academic de profil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198852261
ISBN-10: 0198852266
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și antrenorilor care doresc să înțeleagă cum se poate depăși stadiul de platou în performanța sportivă. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a „flexibilității atenționale”, un instrument critic pentru sportivii care trebuie să își ajusteze tehnica în condiții de stres extrem. Este un text teoretic solid care oferă strategii concrete pentru menținerea excelenței pe termen lung, fiind indispensabil în studiul psihologiei cognitive aplicate.

Despre autor

Aidan Moran a fost profesor de psihologie cognitivă la University College Dublin, fiind recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru cercetările sale asupra proceselor mentale ale atleților de elită. Experiența sa este completată în acest volum de John Toner, specialist în coaching și expertiză sportivă, și de Barbara Montero, a cărei activitate explorează intersecția dintre filozofia minții și performanța fizică. Împreună, autorii au publicat lucrări de referință precum A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology și The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers, consolidând o abordare interdisciplinară care îmbină rigoarea academică cu realitatea antrenamentului de înalt nivel.

Descriere

How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau?Commentators and spectators alike are fascinated by how athletes such as Roger Federer, Tom Brady, and Serena Williams are capable both of moments of exquisite brilliance and of sustaining such excellence over a prolonged period. But what separates these great athletes from those who have achieved a certain level of expertise before finding that their performance has started to plateau? How is it possible for world-class athletes- athletes who seem to be at the top of their game- to keep improving?To solve this puzzle, this book presents a theory of “continuous improvement” that explains how experts use conscious strategies to update and improve motor execution in training contexts and stabilise performance under highly pressurised conditions. It argues that expertise is characterised by an attentional flexibility involving the use of reflection, abstract thought, and bodily awareness; processes used by athletes to alter bodily routines in response to contextual demands. Drawing on theory and empirical findings from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, and cognitive science, the authors outline methodological approaches and practical strategies that can be used by coaches, researchers, and athletes to understand, improve, and maintain optimal levels of performance.A fascinating exploration into the psychological and physical processes behind elite performance, this book will be an insightful read for students and academics of sport science, sport psychology, and kinesiology, as well as coaches, practitioners working with performers, athletes, or anyone with an interest in physical performance and improvement.

Recenzii

Continuous Improvement explores all the facets of athletic expertise and is a terrific read for a wide range of readers, from scholars and academics to coaches and sports performers. One of the many triumphs of this book is its seamless ability to demystify and clearly reveal how performers manage to maintain and develop expertise aka 'continuous improvement'— a phenomenon whereby performers appear capable of continuously improving their skills even after they have become experts.
Excellent. A provocative statement of the role of mindfulness in action and the experiential dimensions of high-level performance. The rich interdisciplinary analysis here fills a major gap in the literature. This book should become a standard in the field for years to come.
This book fills a very important and interesting gap in our knowledge: How do experts keep getting better? It is a very engaging read with real-world examples of high-profile athletes throughout. This book presents an innovative perspective which will be relevant to anyone interested in the process of improvement.
Why do top athletes try to get out of their comfort zone? Integrating theory and evidence from a wide range of sciences and sports, the authors deftly demonstrate the lively intelligence of bodily skills. They show us the rich forms of awareness and control that experts develop and deploy in facing challenges. This provocative and informative book will benefit sports researchers and practitioners alike.
Traditional theories of skilled action suggest that thinking about highly practiced movements can prove detrimental to performance. In Continuous Improvement, Toner and colleagues provide a persuasive counterargument and propose that an expert's ability to flexibly attend to and consciously control action is critical for skill enhancement and peak performance. Meticulously researched, and enriched with contemporary sporting examples, Continuous Improvement is essential reading for those with an interest in athletic expertise.
Continuous Improvement is an excellent resource for those seeking to understand the processes and mechanisms that drive progress in expert action. The authors' measured critique and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and real-world evidence all contribute to a detailed, thought-provoking, and compelling argument for their position, model, and advice. Overall, this book offers a well-timed counter to some prevailing trends in science and practice— and, jointly, a strong stimulus for future progression in both.

Notă biografică

John Toner is a lecturer in sports coaching and performance science at the University of Hull (UK). He has published widely on the role conscious processes play in facilitating 'continuous improvement' among skilled performers. Recent work on this topic has been published in Body & Society, Review of Philosophy and Psychology and the Psychology of Sport and Exercise.Barbara Gail Montero is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island. Her research focuses on two very different notions of 'body': body as the physical or material basis of the mind, and body as flesh and blood instrument that we use when we run, walk, or dance. She is the author of Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind (OUP, 2016) and a former professional ballet dancer.Aidan Moran was Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Psychology Research Laboratory in University College Dublin. His research investigated the cognitive processes underlying expertise in fields like sport, surgery and music. He wrote/co-authored 21 Psychology books over the course of an extremely distinguished career.