Relay exchanges in elite short track speed skating [PDF]
AbstractIn short track speed skating, the relay exchange provides an additional strategic component to races by allowing a team to change the skater involved in the pack race. Typically executed every 1½ laps, it is the belief of skaters and coaches that during this period of the race, time can be gained or lost due to the execution of the relay ...
Hext, Andrew +3 more
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Comparative Study of Different Respiratory Muscle Training Methods: Effects on Cardiopulmonary Indices and Athletic Performance in Elite Short-Track Speedskaters [PDF]
Respiratory muscle training (RMT) improves endurance performance, balance, and ability to repeat high-intensity exercise bouts, providing a rationale to be applied in short-track speedskating.
Tomasz Kowalski +4 more
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Pacing Behavior and Tactical Positioning in 1500-m Short-Track Speed Skating [PDF]
Purpose:To gain more insight in pacing behavior and tactical positioning in 1500-m short-track speed skating, a sport in which several athletes directly compete in the same race.Methods:Lap times and intermediate rankings of elite 1500-m short-track-skating competitors were collected over the season 2012–13 (N = 510, 85 races).
Konings, Marco J +3 more
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Objectifying Tactics: Athlete and Race Variability in Elite Short-Track Speed Skating [PDF]
To objectively capture and understand tactical considerations in a race, the authors explored whether race-to-race variation of an athlete and the variation of competitors within a race could provide insight into how and when athletes modify their pacing decisions in response to other competitors.Lap times of elite 500-, 1000-, and 1500-m short-track ...
Konings, Marco J, Hettinga, Florentina J
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Unilateral Conditioning Contractions Enhance Power Output in Elite Short Track Speed Skaters. [PDF]
AbstractThe objective of the present study was to assess the effect of unilateral lower-body-conditioning muscle contractions during multiple sets of fatiguing repeated jumps in elite athletes. Five elite short-track speed-skating athletes performed 9 sets of 6 maximal consecutive jumps on 2 separate occasions: with (COND) and without (CTRL ...
Gimenez P +4 more
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Short-term surgical complications following fast-track medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Aims: Medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (mUKA) is an advised treatment for anteromedial knee osteoarthritis. While long-term survival after mUKA is well described, reported incidences of short-term surgical complications vary and the effect of ...
Christian Bredgaard Jensen +5 more
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Assessment of Asymmetrical Lower Limb Loading in the Short-Track Speed Skaters
Background. Short-track speed skaters who regularly participate in training are exposed to the occurrence of asymmetry in the lower limb loading. Objective. The study aimed to assess the symmetry of the lower limb loading in short track skaters and the
Antonina Kaczorowska +3 more
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Short communication: Experimental factors affecting fission-track counts in apatite [PDF]
The tools for interpreting fission-track data are evolving apace, but, even so, the outcomes cannot be better than the data. Recent studies showed that track etching and observation affect confined-track length measurements.
C. Aslanian +3 more
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Study of the psychomotor abilities of athletes in cyclic sports, martial arts and esports
Purpose: to conduct a comparative analysis of psychomotor abilities in athletes of cyclic sports (short track), martial arts (karate, taekwondo) and esports (CS:GO).
Svitlana Рiatysotska +5 more
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Introduction. The rail-to-earth transition resistance is an important parameter of electrified railways, which directly effects the electrical safety level of the traction network and the potential distribution in the upper structure track area.
A. B. Kosarev +4 more
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