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• Book title: Mastery in Coaching
• Author: Passmore
• Edition: 1st edition
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Some of the benefits of regular exercise, physical activity and sports are the prevention of many (chronic) diseases and a positive influence on our psychological systems and brain functioning. Furthermore, exercise plays a role in reducing the consequences of injuries that are leading to mortality and morbidity. On the other hand does inactivity (sedentary behaviour) correlate with ill healt, this is a dose-response relationship. In this chapter it will be explained why and how social psychologists help reaching the goal of promoting sports and exercising. The main aims of psychologists in this field are to find factors that predict sport, to find factors that maintain sports and to understand sport behaviours within the social