Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019.

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Images

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Figures 2 and 3: courtesy of YLM Sports Science; https://ylmsportscience.com/ ylmsportscience-app/

Figure 4: courtesy of Innerdrive; https://www.innerdrive.co.uk

Audio/Video

Video 1: courtesy of Cody Franz

Video 2: courtesy of the University of Birmingham and Dr. Eleanor Quested

Video 3: courtesy of Sport Parent EU; http://www.sportparent.eu

Video 4: courtesy of Sport Nova Scotia

Video 5: courtesy of Athletes Connected; Regents of the University of Michigan

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