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  title info:
    title: Continuous improvement
    sub title: intertwining mind and body in athletic expertise
  name:
    name part: Toner, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Montero, Barbara
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Moran, Aidan P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau? To solve this puzzle, this book presents a theory of 'continuous improvement' which emphasizes the role that conscious processes play in maintaining and advancing skilled performers' movement capacities. It argues that continuous improvement requires the use of processes such as abstract thought and bodily awareness in order to strategically alter and improve habitual movements in response to contextual demands. The book also elucidates a number of strategies that might be used to improve an athlete's attentional control and help them switch their focus when they realize they have adopted task-irrelevant thoughts. Finally, it presents a range of methodological approaches that might be used by researchers to better understand the attentional flexibility that characterizes skilled action across training and performance contexts"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: The phenomenology of continuous improvement -- Habit and skilled action -- Is optimal performance really 'mindless'? -- Deliberate practice -- Cognitive control -- Bodily awareness during skilled action -- Aesthetic awareness in athletic performance -- Exploring the orthogonal relationship between controlled and automated processes -- Practical and methodological considerations -- Explaining continuous improvement.
  target audience: specialized
  note: John Toner, Barbara Gail Montero, and Aidan Moran.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    topic: Training of
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Physiological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Aspect physiologique
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Physiological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    topic: Training of
  classification: GV711.5 .T66 2021
  classification: 796.019
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Continuous improvement
    name:
      name part: Toner, John.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1259046214
  identifier: 9780191886966
  identifier: 0191886963
  identifier: 9780198852261 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780192593818
  identifier: 0192593811
  identifier: 9780198852261
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: BRX
    record creation date: 210907
    record change date: 20260318163734.1
    record identifier: in00005696579
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng