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Homogeneity of Prototypical Attributes in Soccer Teams
SAGE Open, 2015 Research indicates that the homogeneous perception of prototypical attributes influences several intragroup processes. The aim of the present study was to describe the homogeneous perception of the prototype and to identify specific prototypical ...
Christian Zepp, Jens Kleinert
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Bayesian GARCH Modeling of Functional Sports Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The use of statistical methods in sport analytics has gained a rapidly growing interest over the last decade, and nowadays is common practice. In particular, the interest in understanding and predicting an athlete's performance throughout his/her career is motivated by the need to evaluate the efficacy of training programs, anticipate fatigue to ...
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Pediatric Exercise Science, 2015 Youth sport participation offers many benefits including the development of self-esteem, peer socialization, and general fitness. However, an emphasis on competitive success—often driven by goals of elite-level travel team selection, collegiate scholarships, Olympic and National team membership, and even professional contracts—has seemingly become ...
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Sport psychology consulting at elite sport competitions. [PDF]
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 2014 The purpose of this investigation was to examine what experienced sport psychology consultants (SPCs) believed to be essential for consulting effectiveness at elite sport competitions (i.e., pinnacle sporting events). A purposeful sampling method was used to recruit 10 experienced SPCs (8 male and 2 female, M age = 50.44 years, M years consulting ...
Steve Danish, Ken Hodge, Lee-Ann Sharp
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Scientific Reports, 2022 To provide percentile curves for short-course swimming events, including 5 swimming strokes, 6 race distances, and both sexes, as well as to compare differences in race times between cross-sectional analysis and longitudinal tracking, a total of 31,645 ...
Dennis-Peter Born +3 more
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Estimation of lactate threshold with machine learning techniques in recreational runners [PDF]
Applied Soft Computing, 63, 181-196 (2018), 2018 Lactate threshold is considered an essential parameter when assessing performance of elite and recreational runners and prescribing training intensities in endurance sports. However, the measurement of blood lactate concentration requires expensive equipment and the extraction of blood samples, which are inconvenient for frequent monitoring ...
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SportsThis study investigated PAPE effects of two conditioning activities (CA) and recovery times on the peak jumping power (PP) of elite female volleyball athletes.
Rahel Heynen +3 more
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Early Sports Specialization in Elite Wrestlers [PDF]
Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2019 Background: Sports specialization is becoming an increasingly common training strategy in young athletes. Very little research currently exists examining the occurrence of serious injury (>3 months off sport or loss of season) in elite-level wrestlers who specialize early (before age 12 years). Hypothesis: Wrestlers who specialize early will sustain
Chelsea Bush +2 more
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Medicina, 2021 Background and Objectives: Angiogenesis describes the outgrowth of new capillaries from already existing ones. Different biomarkers regulate this process. Physical exercise and hypoxia are key stimuli for the activation of different angiogenic molecules,
Frank Suhr +4 more
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Validity and Effects of Placement of Velocity-Based Training Devices
Sports, 2021 Velocity-based training (VBT) is a resistance training method by which training variables are manipulated based on kinematic outcomes, e.g., barbell velocity. The better precision for monitoring and manipulating training variables ascribed to VBT assumes
Raphael Fritschi +2 more
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