Search Results - Life
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Characteristics of the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use in elite Spanish basketball players
Crespo, P., Herranz, N., Estella, V., Morencos, E., Herranz, M., Rodas, G.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…More research is necessary to understand how this can affect the quality of life, the performance, and the injury susceptibility of female athletes.…”
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Connections between competencies and abilities in female artistic gymnasts and handball players
Wehovszky, V., Nagykáldi, C., Kalmár, Z., Ökrös, C.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…Competencies play a pivotal role in addressing challenges in various domains of life, including physical education and sports, where their complexity and diversity are particularly emphasized. …”
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"A kind of therapy": Wheelchair sport athletes and health-related quality of life
Kirk, T. N., McKay, C., Holland, K.Published in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2025)Subjects: “…way of life…”
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Physical, psychosocial and dual-career loads as risk factors for injuries and illnesses in elite handball players: a 45-week prospective cohort study
Drole, K., Paravlic, A., Steffen, K., Doupona, M.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…Introduction: While training and competition load are well-documented risk factors for injury, the influence of dual-career loads, life stressors and overall load on both injury and illness remain less clear. …”
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German basketball coaches` life satisfaction compared to that of teachers, managers, and the general population: derivatives for sports practice and sustainable education
Wunder, J., Priem, M., Wagner, G. G., Stoll, O.Published in Journal of Applied Sports Sciences (2025)“…This study investigates the life satisfaction of basketball coaches, addressing a gap in research on sports professionals. …”
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From pandemic to podium? Norwegian Olympic handball players` journey to Tokyo 2020
Aase, E., Abrahamsen, F. E., Gustafsson, H.Published in Frontiers in Psychology (2025)“…Athletes had to balance coping with everyday life in a pandemic with navigating training in ever-changing conditions, indicating it was particularly valuable to investigate mental preparations ahead of the Tokyo OGs. …”
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Evaluation of food choices: women basketball players on different days
Uy, N., Köse, B.Published in International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism (2025)Subjects: “…way of life…”
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Current applications of virtual reality in basketball training: a systematic review
Chan, C. H. M., Ma, M. K. I., Chan, T. K., Yeung, L. T., Chan, Y. K.Published in Sports Engineering (2024)“…The findings reveal that virtual reality can be superior to the conventional training or real-life basketball training. The main benefits of virtual reality training include increased motivation and the access to training remotely. …”
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Emerging athletes` career transitions in professional sport: an existential multi-case perspective
Thomas, P. G., Lucas, P., Walters, S., Oldham, A. R. H.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2024)“…Furthermore, understanding existential perspectives of meaning, choice, and responsibility provides insights for developing the resources that allow emerging athletes to thrive in life beyond sport.…”
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Flow training program: mindfulness, decision making, and mental well-being of young and adult elite handball athletes
Martiny, L., Dias, G., Ferreira, J. P., Mendes, R., Mendes, R.Published in Sports (2024)“…The correlation analysis also showed an inverse correlation between decision making and sense of control and mindful traits in daily life. The findings revealed that the program can be effective in decision making, mental well-being, dispositional flow state, mindfulness in sport, and mindful traits in daily lives of athletes…”
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"We are their last chance": A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community
Book Jr., R. T., Henriksen, K., Stambulova, N., Mathorne, O. W.Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (2023)“…While the investigation concludes that socioeconomic challenges in the surrounding community created significant barriers to success, the head coach and support team were able to help players succeed in sport and life.…”
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Sports schools and the creation of champions: following 10 female handballers for a decade
Kristiansen, E., Stensrud, T.Published in 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, 4-7 July 2023, Paris, France (2023)“…Evidence of competition-related stressors, organizational stressors (sport and school balance) and personal stressors (social life and sport balance, lack of sleep and severe injuries) was recurring themes in the annual interviews with the handballers. …”
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Relative age effects in the selection of representative athletes of Kosovo national team in handball, football, basketball, volleyball - Post puberty age
Haxhnikaj, L., Miftari, F.Published in SportMont (2023)“…Taking into account the role that the selection of athletes has in the success of clubs as well as in the sports life of young people, this research aims to highlight the impact of the Relative Age Effects (RAE) in the selection of athletes for representative teams of Kosovo in collective sports and the difference between the respective groups. …”
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Upper limb cranking asymmetry during a Wingate anaerobic test in wheelchair basketball players
Brassart, F., Faupin, A., Hays, A., Bakatchina, S., Alberca, I., Watelain, E., Weissland, T.Published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports (2023)“…The Wingate anaerobic test could highlight problematic asymmetries that might impact daily life or sports performance.…”
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Transnational migration and dual career of Slovenian and Swiss elite female handball players - A longitudinal analysis
Bon, M., Doupona, M., Wilson-Gahan, S., Capranica, L., Guidotti, F.Published in Sports (2022)“…Qualitative thematic analysis was employed to develop a contextualized understanding of participants` careers paths and life trajectories in relation to their athletic migration and dual career. …”
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Effects of physical, psychosocial and dual-career loads on injuries and illnesses among elite handball players: protocol of prospective cohort study
Drole, K., Paravlic, A., Steffen, K., Doupona, M.Published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine (2023)“…Other player-related outcomes will include anthropometry, life event survey and blood biomarkers (cortisol, free testosterone and Ig-A), which will be taken three to five times across the observation period according to the players` training cycle. …”
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Injury history and perceived knee function as risk factors for knee injury in youth team-sports athletes
Hietamo, J., Rantala, A., Parkkari, J., Leppänen, M., Rossi, M., Heinonen, A., Steffen, K., Kannus, P., Mattila, V., Pasanen, K.Published in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2022)“…Results: In male athletes, previous acute knee injury and lower KOOS Pain, Activities of Daily Living, Sport and Recreation, and knee-related Quality of Life subscale scores increased the risk of acute knee injury in the unadjusted analyses. …”
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Organisational cultures of two successful Scandinavian handball talent development environments: a comparative case study
Kamuk Storm, L., Ronglan, L: T., Henriksen, K., Krogh Christensen, M.Published in Sports Coaching Review (2022)“…Specific for the professional club, coaches selected players who "fitted into their system", collaborated with the schools to organise the players` everyday life, the club took responsibility for the players` wellbeing and established daily routines for the players. …”
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On learning to anticipate in youth sport
Buszard, T.Published in Sports Medicine (2022)“…Elite sport offers a suitable setting to understand the ability to anticipate future events—a phenomenon that is central to animal life. Critically, however, whilst anticipation in sport has been studied for several decades, there have been few attempts to understand its development throughout childhood and adolescence. …”