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By
Thomas Reilly, BA, DipPE, MSc, PhD, DSc, DHC, FIBiol, FErgS, Director, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Jim Waterhouse, BA(Oxon), DPhil(Oxon)
Description
This thorough book collates the relationships between exercise and the environment into one efficient volume. The aim of this text is
to provide a comprehensive coverage of the environmental influences that impact the individual when exercising or competing in sport.
The main environmental factors are considered, and the physiological reactions to discrete environmental stresses are described and methods
of adaptation or coping are explained.
Contents
1 Exercise and the environment: an ergonomics approach.
2 Exercise in the heat.
3 Exercise in the cold.
4 Altitude
stress and hypoxia .
5 Underwater sports.
6 The stress of travel .
7 The effects of space flight .
8 Air quality
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9 Noise.
10 Living and exercising in hostile environments.
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Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: SEP-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07358-8
ISBN-10: 0-443-07358-9
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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