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Criterion-Validity of Commercially Available Physical Activity Tracker to Estimate Step Count, Covered Distance and Energy Expenditure during Sports Conditions

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2017
Background: In the past years, there was an increasing development of physical activity tracker (Wearables). For recreational people, testing of these devices under walking or light jogging conditions might be sufficient.
Yvonne Wahl   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in mental health outcomes between adolescent elite athletes and peers not engaged in elite sport

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Sport Science, 2022
Elite athletes are confronted with various challenges, pressures and stressors. Due to their status as student and athlete, adolescent elite athletes are exposed to a double burden of stress (pressure to be simultaneously successful in school and elite ...
Markus Gerber   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Name order and the top elite: Long-term effects of a hidden cur-riculum [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
In Japanese primary and secondary schools, an alphabetical name list is used in various situations. Generally, students are called on by the teacher during class and in the cer-emony if their family name is early on the list. Therefore, students whose surname ini-tials are earlier in the Japanese alphabet acquire more experience. Surname advantages are
arxiv  

Competition age: does it matter for swimmers?

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2022
Objective To establish reference data on required competition age regarding performance levels for both sexes, all swimming strokes, and race distances and to determine the effect of competition age on swimming performance in the context of other common ...
Dennis-Peter Born   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining “elite” status in sport: from chaos to clarity

open access: yesGerman Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 2021
The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in attention towards talent identification, athlete development and skill acquisition. However, there are important limitations to the evidentiary foundations of this field of research.
Alexander B. T. McAuley   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing mental health literacy and cultural competence in elite sport

open access: yes, 2020
Mental health symptoms and disorders amongst elite athletes have attracted a great deal of discussion recently. Current epidemiological evidence illustrates that mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes are prevalent and a concern for ...
Paul Gorczynski   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Discovery of causal paths in cardiorespiratory parameters: a time-independent approach in elite athletes [PDF]

open access: yeswww.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01455/, 2018
Training of elite athletes requires regular physiological and medical monitoring to plan the schedule, intensity and volume of training, and subsequent recovery. In sports medicine, ECG-based analyses are well established. However, they rarely consider the correspondence of respiratory and cardiac activity.
arxiv   +1 more source

Video Analytics in Elite Soccer: A Distributed Computing Perspective [PDF]

open access: yespublished IEEE SAM 2022, 2022
Ubiquitous sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have revolutionized the sports industry, providing new methodologies for planning, effective coordination of training, and match analysis post game. New methods, including machine learning, image and video processing, have been developed for performance evaluation, allowing the analyst to ...
arxiv  

Homogeneity of Prototypical Attributes in Soccer Teams

open access: yesSAGE 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
doaj   +1 more source

Orienteering from Cradle to Grave—How a Sport Could Offer Lifelong Participation

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Background: The aim of this present study is to explore what makes orienteering meaningful and rewarding to former elite athletes’ years or even decades after ending their elite careers.
Max Bergström   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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