Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a broad range of sport and exercise case studies covering a range of diverse approaches to practice, and crucially articulating the evidence base underpinning these approaches. It explores a range of interventions where the presenting problems are sport and performance focused. It focuses explicitly on the coach, and the potential psychological challenges coaches face. The book then explores motor learning and control and the use of these approaches in applied practice. It also explores the cognitive processes involved in the development of motor skills in practice, the development of visual anticipation skills, and the development of perception and action through an ecological-based approach. The book considers the use of physical activity and exercise as a medium through which a range of health and wellbeing outcomes can be achieved.