Understanding constraints on sport performance from the complexity sciences paradigm: An ecological dynamics framework

SEIFERT, Ludovic, ARAÚJO, Duarte, KOMAR, John and DAVIDS, Keith (2017). Understanding constraints on sport performance from the complexity sciences paradigm: An ecological dynamics framework. Human Movement Science, 56 (A), 178-180.

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Abstract

Glazier’s suggestion for the constraints-led approach as a GUT for sport performance is a worthy proposal. What is missing from these preliminary insights is a principled basis, in the form of pillars, for understanding the cornerstones of the sports medicine profession, and this lack of an overarching theoretical framework is also somewhat of a limitation in Glazier's initial ideas, as we argue later. Here we suggest that his preliminary proposal would benefit from considering a more comprehensive ontological positioning within the complexity sciences paradigm to benefit from conceptualising athletes and sports teams as complex adaptive systems. We argue that ecological dynamics provides a more encompassing rationale than the constraint-led approach because it is a multi-dimensional theoretical framework shaped by many relevant disciplines.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group:	Centre for Sports Engineering Research
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2017.05.001
Depositing User:	Carmel House
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2017 11:47
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2018 20:45
URI:	http://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15821

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