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Game Changers: How a Team of Underdogs and Scientists Discovered What It Takes to Win
Contributor(s): Medeiros, Joćo (Author)
ISBN: 1408708469     ISBN-13: 9781408708460
Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK)
OUR PRICE:   $26.09  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Sports Psychology
- Psychology
- Business & Economics | Mentoring & Coaching
Physical Information: 1" H x 0.6" W x 5.3" (1.27 lbs) 352 pages
 
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In Game Changers we meet the coaches and sports scientists who rethink how sport is analyzed and understood, how athletes train and perform under pressure. In Liverpool in the 1980s, a motley group - a mathematician, a physiologist, a psychologist and a former Olympic basketball player - began to pioneer new ways of tracking performance. Over the decades that followed, performance analysis came of age, becoming an essential component of any elite team, from NBA champions Golden State Warriors to English Premier League title contenders Manchester City to America's Cup high-performance sailing teams.

Using a hybrid of scientific method and trial-and-error, scientists have uncovered the tenets of accelerated learning, the mechanics of physiological adaptation, the organizational principles behind elite teams, the understanding of how hormones and environment affect performance. These discoveries are not confined to athletic endeavors - they are universal and reveal what it takes to win not only in sports, but are applicable across a wide range of disciplines, including business, leadership and education.