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Daily spiritual experience in Indonesian elite athletes: able-bodied and disabilities

COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education, 2021
Spirituality is the individual's belief in the existence, presence and involvement of transcendent divine beings in everyday life. This belief is accompanied by activities that aim to get closer to the transcendent figure (God).
Davi Sofyan
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Stratification of athletes’ gut microbiota: the multifaceted hubs associated with dietary factors, physical characteristics and performance

Gut Microbes, 2020
Gut microbial communities of athletes differ from that of sedentary persons in both diversity and the presence of certain taxa. However, it is unclear to what degree elite athletes and non-elite athletes harbor different gut microbial community patterns ...
Maozhen Han, Kun Yang, Pengshuo Yang, Chaofang Zhong, Chaoyun Chen, Song Wang, Qunwei Lu, Kang Ning   +7 more
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Comparative Study of the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Nutritional Practices Among International Elite and Sub-Elite Athletes: A Sample of 1420 Participants from 14 Countries

Sports Medicine - Open, 2023
Background Although several studies have shown that the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown has had negative impacts on mental health and eating behaviors among the general population and athletes, few studies have examined the long-term effects
Morteza Taheri, Helmi Ben Saad, Jad Adrian Washif, Luis Felipe Reynoso-Sánchez, Masoud Mirmoezzi, Leila Youzbashi, Khaled Trabelsi, Mozhgan Moshtagh, Hussein Muñoz-Helú, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Ali Seghatoleslami, Farnaz Torabi, Yusuf Soylu, Cem Kurt, Rodrigo Luiz Vancini, Shabnam Delkash, Marjan Sadat Rezaei, Mahdi Ashouri, Shazia Tahira, Mansour Sayyah, Hamdi Chtourou, Ismail Dergaa, Jana Strahler, Andressa Fontes Guimarães-Mataruna, Tyler W. Lebaron, Ebrahim Shaabani Ezdini, Ardeshir Alizade, Hassane Zouhal, Alexander T. Tarnava, Cain Clark, Nooshin Bigdeli, Achraf Ammar, Özgür Eken, Karim Ben Ayed, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Hadi Nobari, Mabliny Thuany, Katja Weiss, Beat Knechtle, Khadijeh Irandoust   +39 more
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Body dissatisfaction and sociodemographic, anthropometric and maturational factors among artistic gymnastics athletes

Revista Brasileira de Educação Física e Esporte : RBEFE, 2016
This study aimed to evaluate the overall body dissatisfaction and in specific areas in adolescents who practice artistic gymnastic in elite and non-elite levels, and to analyze the influence of sociodemographic, anthropometric and maturational factors on
Clara Mockdece NEVES, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras MEIRELES, Pedro Henrique Berbert de CARVALHO, Maria Elisa Caputo FERREIRA   +3 more
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Acute effects of caffeine supplementation on taekwondo performance: the influence of competition level and sex

Scientific Reports, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of acute caffeine supplementation on physical performance and perceived exertion during taekwondo-specific tasks in male and female athletes with varying expertise.
Ibrahim Ouergui, Slaheddine Delleli, Craig Alan Bridge, Hamdi Messaoudi, Hamdi Chtourou, Christopher Garrett Ballmann, Luca Paolo Ardigò, Emerson Franchini   +7 more
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Back pain in elite sports: A cross-sectional study on 1114 athletes.

PLoS ONE, 2017
ObjectivesTo establish the prevalence of back pain in German elite athletes; examine the influence of age, sex, sports discipline and training volume; and compare elite athletes with a physically active control group.MethodsA standardized and validated ...
Daniela Fett, Katharina Trompeter, Petra Platen   +2 more
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Elite Athletes and COVID-19 Lockdown: Future Health Concerns for an Entire Sector

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2020
In this editorial, we focused our attention on elite athletes during the COVID-19 lockdown. A high level of physical fitness is required by elite athletes irrespective of the specific type of sport.
Antonio Paoli, Giuseppe Musumeci
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Is athletic background associated with a future lower prevalence of risk factors for chronic disease?

Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2014
This cross-sectional study examined whether the prevalence of behavioral and biological risk factors of former elite athletes (both men and women), differed from nonelite athletes and nonathletes.
Cristiano H.X. Batista, José M. Soares
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The study of the correlations between handgrip strength and some anthropometric characteristics of upper extremity of elite and sub-elite Olympic style weightlifting athletes

Physical Education of Students, 2020
Background and Study Aim: Handgrip strength is widely used as a functionality parameter of the upper extremity and general health. The measurement of handgrip strength by dynamometry is a low cost, noninvasive method of simple applicability.
Kenan Erdağı
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What Makes an Elite Shooter and Archer? The Critical Role of Interoceptive Attention

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
It is well-acknowledged that attention is important for expert performance in sports. However, the role of interoceptive attention, i.e., the attentional mechanism of awareness and conscious focus of bodily somatic and visceral signals, in self-paced and
Pengli Li, Quanyu Lu, Qiong Wu, Xinghua Liu, Xinghua Liu, Yanhong Wu, Yanhong Wu, Yanhong Wu   +7 more
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