Coaching athletes with disabilities

This book is a practical guide for coaching methodology and assesing athletes with disabilities effectivelly and efficiently.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagoor Meera Abdullah
Other Authors: Ampofo-Boateng, Kwame, Rozita Abd Latif
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Serdang, Selangor Penerbit Universiti Putra Malaysia 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Fitness testing: specific guidelines for conducting physical fitness tests for athletes with disabilities
  • Coaching track and field athletes with physical, visual and mental disabilities
  • Training elements for goalball players
  • Training visually-impaired students in track and field events
  • Guidelines for talent identification in persons with disabilities
  • Fitness testing for wheelchair basketball players
  • Fitness testing application for goalball players
  • Classification in disability sports and its implications on coaching
  • Coaching athletes with disabilities: general principles
  • Inclusion and disability sports
  • Communication and athletes with intellectual disabilities
  • Flexibility exercises and athletes with disabilities
  • Exercise for wheelchair bound individuals for activity of daily-living (ADL)
  • Heart rate level and wheelchair athletes
  • Methods of stretching and strengthening for paralympic powerlifters
  • Fun games for boccia beginners
  • The use of the mobile phone as a video analysis tool in analysis of the seated javelin throws by wheelchair athletes