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Author:   W.A. Sparrow
Publisher:   Human Kinetics Publishers
Imprint:   Human Kinetics Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780880117876

ISBN 10:   0880117877
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 May 2000
Recommended Age:   From 18 To 99
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

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Metabolic energy expenditure and accuracy in movement -relation to levels of muscle and cardiorespiratory activation and the sense of effort; factors that have shaped human locomotor structure and behaviour - the joules in the crown; movement proficiency -incorporating task demands and constraints in assessing human movement; movement economy, preferred modes and pacing; triggers for the transition between human walking and running; learned changes in behavioural efficiency - the effects of concurrent and terminal exteroceptive feedback of response success; mechanical power and work in human movement; optimisation in the learning of cyclical actions; dynamic and thermodynamic constraints and the metabolic cost of locomotion.

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W.A. Sparrow, PhD, is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. A major focus of his work has been metabolic energy expenditure and movement coordination and control. Sparrow's work has been published in such scholarly journals as the Journal of Motor Behavior and the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. The major theme of this book had its origins in a paper titled ""The Efficiency of Skilled Performance,"" which appeared in the Journal of Motor Behavior in 1983. This work proposed that references to ""economy"" or ""efficiency"" in traditional definitions of motor expertise could be studied experimentally by examining the effects of practice on the metabolic energy expended to achieve the motor task goal. Sparrow received his PhD at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked as a research assistant in the Motor Behavior Laboratory under the supervision of Karl Newell. He and his wife, Helen, reside in Melbourne, Australia. His leisure time activities include reading and swimming.

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