Preparatory Routines in Self-Paced Events: Do They Benefit the Skilled Athletes? Can They Help the Beginners?

Handbook of Sport Psychology: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 445-465

  Lidor, Ronnie ^a,b  

^a WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Preparatory routines; Self paced events; Shooting; Skilled athletes; Tennis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449418463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118270011.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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