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I look up to... Serena Williams
\"Serena Williams is a professional tennis player...and an inspiring role model!\"--Back of book.
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Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
\"Venus and Serena Williams. Two peas in a pod. Best friends. Sisters ... [This is] the inspirational story of two tennis legends who were fierce competitors on the courts, but close sisters above all\"--Amazon.com.
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Self-conversation with a sporting celebrity enhances later physical exercise: an exploratory study
There is a world-wide deficit in physical exercise with many deleterious effects on health. Methods to enhance the uptake of physical exercise include digital applications and celebrity endorsements. Here we introduce a Virtual Reality (VR) self-conversation method combined with celebrity endorsement. Participants had a conversation with a virtual representation of a sporting celebrity to discuss ways of enhancing their exercise routine. However, they took both sides of the discussion—embodied as themselves and as the celebrity, swapping between the two bodies. A between groups experiment was carried out with three conditions: Video (n = 25), General (n = 20) and Self (n = 20). All participants watched a video of the celebrity athlete working out. Participants in the General condition additionally experienced the VR scenario with their own self representation as a general sex-matched virtual body. In the Self condition their virtual body was a likeness of themselves. The results showed that participants had improved in their exercise routines one week after the VR exposure. However, for women the improvement was superior with the General body, and for men with the Self body. The difference between the outcomes for males and females is probably due to the greater likelihood of body dissatisfaction amongst women. This is an exploratory study of a new technique with promising results.
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Sisters & champions : the true story of Venus and Serena Williams
\"An inspiring picture book sports biography about two of the greatest female tennis players of all-time, outsiders who just happen to be sisters\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nike+ Training Club, an ultimate personal trainer: mobile app user guide
Name of the mobile application Nike+ Training Club Category of the mobile application Health and Fitness Platform Android (4.4 or later)—iOS (10.0 or later) Cost Free About the app Nike+ Training Club, which is a marketing tool for Nike, is an app for the deliverance of workouts and personalised adaptive training plans for a variety of physical activity levels. Start-up, which is a 4-week balanced mix of strength, endurance and mobility plans, suitable for beginner and intermediate level trainees, in order to get into training or maintain fitness; Lean fit, which is low-intensity to high-intensity workouts focused on endurance, suitable for all level trainees, in order to lose body fat and improve overall fitness; Body weight only, which is a 4-week strength-focused workout without extra weights or equipment, suitable for intermediate and advanced level trainees, in order to improve strength and fitness; Gym strong, which is an 8-week full-body high-intensity plan, focused on strength, plyometric, metabolic and core work, suitable for intermediate and advanced level trainees, in order to improve total muscular strength with the use of gym equipment. Regarding resistance training which is the main fitness approach of the app, the benefits of this type of exercise have a great influence on physical and mental health.2 The app provides individualised exercise opportunities, taking into account the considerable individual variability in the response to fitness programmes, with the use of appropriate equipment, program design and exercise techniques needed for the safe and effective implementation of a programme.2,3 Trainees can receive instantaneous detailed verbal and visual feedback during workouts in order to self-assess their performance, perform each exercise correctly and avoid potential injuries.
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Venus and Serena Williams : tennis champions
Venus and Serena Williams are two of the most successful tennis players of all time. Their success is in part due to the encouragement and support of each other, their mother, and their father. This book explores the lives of two of the greatest athletes of all time and how they achieved their success as a family.
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Black Lives Matter in sport…?
PurposeIn this invited professional insight paper the author draws parallels between recent debates on racism, Black Lives Matter and related research in sport and cognate domains.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on Critical Race Theory (CRT) the paper contends that 1) sport is a contested site, 2) sport is a microcosm of society 3) “race” and everyday racism are central to our understanding of sport. It overlays this critique with a recognition of the dynamic and multi-dimensional nature of racisms.FindingsWhile the deaths of Black lives are being mourned it is argued that our attention can also become distracted by narrow manifestations of racism (overt). Such approaches leave key stakeholders efforts focused on the individual to the detriment of challenging systemic policies, practices and dispositions that entrench racism. The color-coded racism of past decades is still with us but in addition to this, our critiques and activism require continued surveillance of cultural, institutional and structural arrangements in the everyday that remain nebulous, complex and difficult to challenge.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a viewpoint paper. The author draws on previous original empirical work and current insights to draw parallels between sport, Black Lives Matter and broader social contexts. Due to limitations in the extant literature in regard to the section on cycling and ethnicity, examples are drawn primarily from the US and UK.Practical implicationsThis focus on sport and leisure past times demonstrates that the Black experience of “race” and racism transcends social boundaries and cannot be perceived as restricted to narrow social domains.Social implicationsRacisms are embedded in society and therefore its cultural products of which sport is a significant one should not be marginalised in antiracism efforts and activist scholarship.Originality/valueThis paper draws on the author's original published research and current insights. The paper makes a contribution to the development of critical race theorising to the sociology of sport, and broader ethnic and racial studies.
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Serena Williams
\"A photo-illustrated biography for early readers on pro tennis player Serena Williams. Describes her childhood, when she started playing tennis, and how he got to be a pro tennis player. Includes a fact sheet with highlighted accomplishments, glossary, books, and websites\"-- Provided by publisher.
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