Search Results - New Studies in Athletics

Sandbakk, Ø., Tønnessen, E., Sandbakk, S. B., Losnegard, T., Seiler, S., Haugen, T. “…The study design included: (1) an extensive, email-administered and Word™-based questionnaire related to training characteristics at the macro-, meso-, micro-, and session-level; (2) cross-referencing data with historically reported training logs from successful athletes; (3) in-depth and semi-structured in-person interviews with each coach; (4) a review process among authors and coaches. …”

Kyriakidou, G., Tsalis, G., Evaggelinou, C. “…This study aimed to ascertain whether there were any differences in anthropometrics, heart rate, and swimming performance parameters in athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID) before and after a three-month training break. …”

Hamer, J., Desbrow, B., Irwin, C., Shaw, G., Disher, A., Alexiou, H. “…The process evaluation findings indicated that coaches found numerous aspects of the workshop valuable, including the case study approach, resources for consolidation of learning and discussions around the challenges they may experience when managing athletes at risk. …”

Standoli, J. P., Candela, V., Bonifazi, M., Gumina, S. “…Context Glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (GIRD) may affect overhead athletes and contribute to shoulder injury. Objectives To assess data on passive shoulder range of motion (ROM) in young elite swimmers and to determine the prevalence of anatomical and pure GIRD (aGIRD and pGIRD, respectively) in a large sample size of asymptomatic elite swimmers with a new classification method. …”

Donaldson, B., Bezodis, N., Bayne, H. “…Moreover, multiple effective coordination strategies may be available to athletes of similar ability, which typical group-based analyses may mask. …”

Botha, M. “…This hypothesis has been extended to athletes, but these brain-body connections have not been investigated in sprinters. …”

Romagnoli, C., Ditroilo, M., Bonaiuto, V., Annino, G., Gatta, G.

Izumi, T., Hyodo, H., Yoshioka, T., Wada, T. “…The number of swimming pools was normalized for the population and area of the prefecture. Purpose: This study proposed to examine new parameters for improving competitive swimming performance by using statistical data in the training environment. …”

Romagnoli, C., Lanotte, N., Boatto, P., Delgado, D., Caprioli, L., Bonaiuto, V., Annino, G. “…In flatwater sprint kayaking, an effective paddling technique together with good physical performance and a smart race strategy plays a significant role among elite athletes (Baker, 2012; Michael et al., 2009). However, in order to evaluate both technical and performance improvements, coaches and athletes have relied on sports technology and the use of new devices that monitor the paddler's performance. …”

Gawel, E., Zwierzchowska, A., Zebrowska, A. “…While the intrinsic adaptation strategy is one-sided, the extrinsic adaptation strategy affects the athletes body in two ways, i.e. (a) it can induce new musculoskeletal adaptations, and (b) it can aggravate existing adaptations . …”

Lou, S., Soh, K. G., Soh, K. L., Sun, H., Modh Nasiruddin, N. J., Du, C., Zhai, X. “…Background: This study aims to present a critical review of the existing literature on the effect of core training on athletes` skill performance, and to provide recommendations and suggest future research directions for both coaches and researchers. …”

Karpov, V. Yu., Komarov, M. N., Rodionova, I. A., Porubaiko, L. N. “…Objective of the study was to identify the main directions of modernization of the training system for highly qualified freestyle swimmers based on a historiographic analysis of world records. …”

Vynohradov, V., Lopatenko, H., Biletska, V., Trachuk, S., Semenenko, V., Kudria, M., Shemchuk, V., Napadij, A. “…The possibility of forming the motor composition of a new skill for implementing the athletes` sprinting capabilities is revealed. …”

Otsuka, M., Kurihara, T., Isaka, T. “…New Studies in Athletics…”

Vinokourov, L. V., Mosunov, D. F., Tveryakov, I. L. “…Objective of the study was to analyze and test benefits of a new individual technical abnormalities sensitive technical and tactical training system for blind and partially sighted swimming elite. …”

R. C. R. Davison, P. M. Smith, J. Hopker, M. J. Price, F. Hettinga, G. Tew, L. Bottoms “…With contributions from leading specialist sport physiologists and covering a wide range of mainstream sports in terms of ethical, practical and methodological issues, this volume represents an essential resource for sport-specific exercise testing in both research and applied settings. This new edition draws on the authors` experience of supporting athletes from many sports through several Olympic cycles to achieve world leading performances. …”

Dmitriyev, A., Gunina, L. “…To form modern ideas about carbohydrates as macronutrients with a diverse function in the athlete's body. Methods. Analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature data on the subject under study, as well as analysis of the results of reference databases. …”

Yang, F. “…The aim of this study is to provide insight into the improvement of swimming performance on the new start block by kinematics view for coaches and athletes. …”

Welinski, M. L., Lee, L. N., McBroom, B., Mufarreh, B., Gidley, L. “…Changing direction in a shorter time improves an athlete`s ability to evade an opponent, by decreasing the time an opponent has to react to a new direction.…”

Gleadhill, S., Kai, T., Nagahara, R. “…A new descriptive characteristic of sprint running (step straightness) was defined and measured, representing the mediolateral distance of step-to-step centre of pressure foot position relative to the centre of an athletic track lane. …”