Investigation of the effects of an 8-week cross-country skiing exercise program on various reaction time parameters, selective attention and academic achievement in adolescents [PDF]
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and RehabilitationExercise slows or helps reverse the shrinkage of key cognitive brain regions such as the hippocampus, which is important for information processing, learning, reasoning and planning.
Musab Çağın +4 more
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Assessment of Basic Motions and Technique Identification in Classical Cross-Country Skiing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Cross-country skiing is a popular Olympic winter sport, which is also used extensively as a recreational activity. While cross-country skiing primarily is regarded as a demanding endurance activity it is also technically challenging, as it contains two ...
Johannes Tjønnås +4 more
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A Comparison of Frontal Theta Activity During Shooting among Biathletes and Cross-Country Skiers before and after Vigorous Exercise. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Previous studies using electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor brain activity have linked higher frontal theta activity to more focused attention and superior performance in goal-directed precision tasks.
Harri Luchsinger +4 more
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Upper limb isokinetic muscle strength predicts the performance in cross-country sit-skiing
Scientific Reports, 2022 The double poling (DP) technique in cross-country sit-skiing is primarily considered as an upper-body exercise. The upper limb muscle strength and motion economy are important factors accounting for DP performance in cross-country sit-skiing. The present
Chenglin Liu +6 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 more
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Drag Area, Frontal Area and Drag Coefficient in Cross-Country Skiing Techniques
Proceedings, 2018 The aim of this study was to investigate the air drag, frontal area and coefficient of drag of cross-country skiing classical and free style techniques. One highly skilled cross-country skier performed skiing-like classical and free style techniques on a
Mats Ainegren, Patrik Jonsson
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of prolonged ski racing using skating style on technique choice in a transition section among female and male high-level skiers. Fifty three national-to-elite level skiers (20 females: 26.7 ± 4.8 years,
Luca Paolo Ardigò +10 more
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Automatic Identification of Subtechniques in Skating-Style Roller Skiing Using Inertial Sensors
Sensors, 2016 This study aims to develop and validate an automated system for identifying skating-style cross-country subtechniques using inertial sensors. In the first experiment, the performance of a male cross-country skier was used to develop an automated ...
Yoshihisa Sakurai +2 more
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The structure of a biathlon sprint competition
Kinesiologia Slovenica, 2019 A biathlon sprint competition event consists of a number of segments (variables), i.e. cross country skiing time, range time, so-called time difference (also consisting the time of penalty loops), and shooting performance. In the research part, the study
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Аналіз умов виникнення та змагальної діяльності лижних марафонів Visma Ski Classics
Фізичне виховання, спорт і культура здоров’я у сучасному суспільстві, 2022 The article highlights the historical aspects of the formation, features and prerequisites for the emergence of new disciplines in ski racing on the example of the Visma Ski Classics.
Andrii Kazmiruk +3 more
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