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IB Recommended Reading: Sports and Health Science

These links should be useful for many topics

All these books and more, available in the Library

Mind Games

Are Althletes Good Role Models?

Practical Skills in Sport and Exercise Science

Inside the Cage

Sport First Aid

The Encyclopedia of Exercise, Sport and Health

Drugs and Sport

Food for Sport

Lab Reports and Projects in Sport and Exercise Science

The Beginning Runner's Handbook

Careers for Sports Nuts and Other Athletic Types

Sports and Society

Money in Sports

Extreme Sports

Anybody's Sports Medicine Book

Women Who Risk

Sportsmanship

Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules

Vert Skating

Studyguide- Examining Physical Education AQA

Eating Disorders Information for Teens

Aqua Fitness

Sports Biomechanics - The Basics

For coaches, athletes & students of biomechanics, this text answers real-world questions in sports using easily comprehensible language & clear diagrams. Each chapter is devoted to answering questions in a single area of sports biomechanics with the scientific underpinnings of sports performance clearly explained.

Physical Education and the Study of Sport

Book is available from the library or your PE teacher.

Websites for further study and research

Sport TED talks