Perspectives of Sports Science

This chapter aims to outline various perspectives of sports science. Sports science is understood as an interdisciplinary discipline that, depending on the view of sports practice, provides different answers for the same sports situation. With training science, movement science, sport psychology, sports medicine, and sports biomechanics, primarily natural and social scientific perspectives of sports science are presented. Essential points regarding the content orientation, theoretical anchoring, and research methods are to be mentioned and clarified using application examples for sleep and dream research.