The book collates the relationships between exercise and the environment in a single volume. The human interacts with environmental factors in complex ways. The aim of this text is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the environmental influences that impact on the individual when exercising or competing in sport. The main environmental factors are considered in turn, the physiological reactions to discrete environmental stresses are described and methods of adaptation or coping are explained.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction: Environmental exercise physiology1. Exercise and the environment - an ergonomics approach2. Exercise in the heat3. Exercise in the cold4. Altitude stress and hypoxia5. Underwater sports6. Space7. The traveling athlete8. Air quality9. Noise10. Living and exercising in hostile environments
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