Exploring the Field of Kinesiology
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2026
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Dr. Shim’s book enables you to consider key aspects of your professional life at a time when informed decisions can have a powerful impact on your career success and satisfaction. Dr. Shim provides highly relevant recommendations for starting your journey in kinesiology, setting your goals, developing your personal management skills, and selecting your specialization, such as teaching, coaching, sports management, corporate wellness, athletic training, clinical exercise physiology, preventive medicine, or related career tracks. Importantly, this book offers practical information on a variety of pertinent topics, including systematically navigating the many currents of under graduate education, establishing positive and productive relationships with professors and classmates, and evaluating the efficacy of graduate school.
Dr. Shim understands that life proceeds rapidly and sometimes in unexpected ways for which we may not be fully prepared. He has, therefore, included a chapter on maintaining challenge, accomplishment, and enthusiasm throughout your career as a kinesiologist, so that you will continue to find purpose, meaning, and reinforcement on a daily basis. I cannot think of a better resource than Dr. Shim’s fourth edition of Exploring the Field of Kinesiology for learning more about this important and rewarding profession and for attaining the knowledge, skills, experience, and expertise to become an effective kinesiologist who positively and profoundly influences peoples’ lives.
Chapter 1: Identification of Kinesiology
Step I: How Do I Begin?
Step II: Finding the Right Program
Chapter 2: What Is a Mentor and Why Do I Need One?
Characteristics of a Good Mentor
Peer Mentors
Sage Mentors
Chapter 3: Setting Proper Goals and Time Management Skills
How Does One Start Goal Setting in This Field?
Time Management Skills
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Stimuli
Rewards Concept
Review and/or Reflections
Roadblocks and Potholes
Chapter 4: What Job Fits You in Kinesiology?
Recognizing Job Characteristics
Student Clubs and Professional Memberships
Internships or Cooperative Experiences/Volunteerism
Chapter 5: Clinical Professions
Athletic Training
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Exercise Physiology
Chapter 6: Coaching Professions in Sport or Sport Instruction
Important Qualities That Head and Assistant Coaches Should Possess
Junior to Senior High School Assistant and Head Coaches
The Strength and Conditioning Coach
Chapter 7: Teaching Careers
Elementary-Level Teaching Careers in the Field of Kinesiology
Secondary Teaching Careers in the Field of Kinesiology
Two- or Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education
Chapter 8: Sport Management Careers
What Is Sport Management?
Facility and Event Management in Sport Management
Intercollegiate Sport Management
Professional Sport
Chapter 9: Corporate Wellness
The Six Dimensions of Wellness
Rationale of Implementing Corporate Wellness in Companies in the United States
What Are the Advantages to the Employee?
Important Qualities That a Corporate Wellness Specialist Must Possess
Job Duties of a Corporate Wellness Specialist
Training, CEUs, Degree, License, Advancement—Corporate Wellness Specialist
Chapter 10: Mental Coaching Professions in Sports or Sports Instruction
What Do Sports Mental Coaches Do?
Career Paths and Specializations
Chapter 11: Research in Kinesiology
Abstract
Chapter 12: Early Career Do’s and Don’ts
You Earned the Job, Now What?
Student Debt: Do I Really Need All That Student Loan Money to Fund My Education?
Goal Setting for the Immediate Future
Graduate School: Is This for everyone?
Professional Organizations and Career Networking
Chapter 13: How to Maintain the Excitement as a Kinesiology Professional during Mid-career
Characteristics That You Have Graduated to a Mid-career Professional
Making the Transition