Search Results - Performance Enhancement & Health
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Construction of sports rehabilitation intervention program for knee injuries in fencing athletes
Shi, J.Published in Theoretical and Natural Sciences (2025)“…These findings emphasize the necessity of designing rehabilitation protocols based on fencing`s unique demands, providing a practical model for clinicians, coaches, and sports organizations to improve fencers` health and maintain their competitive performance.…”
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Training practices of Japanese elite team and combat sport athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview study with support staff
Yamashita, D., Yamazaki, K., Yamagishi, T., Tsubokura, H., Washif, J. A., Mujika, I.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…Furthermore, social isolation and uncertainty increased mental health concerns among athletes, emphasizing the need for greater psychological support. …”
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A comparison of deviations from balanced and negative time perspectives between elite and non-elite wrestlers
Nazarpouri, S.Published in Sport Psychology Studies (2025)“…Time perspective, as measured by the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), has been recognized as an important psychological factor in domains such as education, health, and, to a lesser extent, athletic performance. …”
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Advancing strength and conditioning practices for collegiate female flag football: a narrative review and practical framework
Diaz-Ochoa, A., Dietze-Hermosa, M., Montalvo, S.Published in Strength and Conditioning Journal (2025)“…These steps can foster the health, performance, and long-term development of female collegiate flag football athletes as they prepare for the sport's Olympic debut.…”
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Understanding of mental fatigue in elite fencing sports: perspectives from Chinese national level fencers
Bian, C., Russell, S., De Pauw, K., Habay, J., Bogataj, Š., Roelands, B.Published in Frontiers in Psychology (2025)“…Fencing, as an open-skilled combat sport, requires perceptual-cognitive skills and mental resources allocation for an optimal performance. However, it is underrepresented in the MF research domain. …”
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Sensitivity to rewards and punishments in karate athletes: an examination of the temperamental characteristics and profile of karate competitors according to the revised reinforcem...
Kusnierz, C., Rogowska, A. M., Görner, K., Wosinekm, P.Published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation (2024)“…Methods The cross-sectional study was performed among male karate athletes and control groups (physically active and inactive men). …”
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Athlete monitoring systems in elite men`s basketball: challenges, recommendations, and future perspectives
Burger, J., Henze, A.-S., Voit, T., Latzel, R., Moser, O.Published in Translational Sports Medicine (2024)“…This review synthesizes current challenges in deploying AMSs, underscores their role in injury prevention and performance optimization, and discusses technological advances that could enhance their utility. …”
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Nutritional and training strategies for actual competition in world-class Japanese female wrestler: A case report
Kondo, E., Saito, M., Uchizawa, A., Tamai, S., Watanabe, K., Sagayama, H.Published in Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (2024)“…However, precise methods of making weight and the effect of manipulating body mass (BM) on health and performance in female wrestlers have not been reported. …”
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Training load in relation to loading and unloading phases of training
Published 2021“…Version 2 has been developed in consultation with representatives from the National Institute Network and National Sporting Organisations with input from experts in the wider professional sport and university sectors. Background Sports performance is multifactorial in nature with exercise training, recovery, heath, nutrition, psychological skills and skill acquisition as key factors in athletic preparation.1 Systematic training prepares the athlete for the demands of their sport such that physical abilities and sport specific skills are enhanced.1 Well-planned training loads promote structural and metabolic adaptations that underpin training outcomes such as improved physical performance, injury and illness resistance, and optimised mental and physical health. …”
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High performance youth swimming
J. DekerlePublished 2021“…Divided into sections on physiology of swimming, motor control, biomechanics, and long-term well-being, the book also includes chapters from international contributors on: - Strength and conditioning - Skill acquisition - Overtraining - Burnout - Respiratory health This volume is for those interested in enhancing their art of coaching through a deeper understanding of the science of swimming, including swimming coaches, those who wish - and question how - to best support youth swimming performance, or anyone interested in swimming science more generally. …”
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"Strong, fearless, tough, enduring": Collegiate male wrestlers` perceptions of body image and masculinity
Fasczewski, K. S., Powell, S. M., Stevens, N. R., Skinner, J. W.Published in Performance Enhancement & Health (2022)“…Performance Enhancement & Health…”
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Fighting and doping: Professional mixed martial artists experience and exposure to performance-enhancing substances and supplements
Woolf, J. R., Yoon, H., Perkari, K.Published in Performance Enhancement & Health (2021)“…Performance Enhancement & Health…”
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Applying strength and conditioning practices to athletes with disability
Paulson, T., Goosey-Tolfrey, V.Published in Routledge handbook of strength and conditioning: Sport-specific programming for high performance (2018)“…The heterogeneity in impairment groups eligible for classification in the sarne sporting discipline presents a unique challenge for coaches and practitioners when considering benchmarks of physical performance (e.g. tetraplegia vs. cerebral palsy). As well as enhancing physical capacities, strength and conditioning-based interventions must also focus on maintaining athlete robustness and training availability whilst considering environmental influences on health and performance. …”
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Applying strength and conditioning practices to female athletes
Read, P. J., Montalvo, A., Blagrove, R., Bürden, R., Myer, G., Lloyd, R. S.Published in Routledge handbook of strength and conditioning: Sport-specific programming for high performance (2018)“…As well as the positive effects on performance outcomes, numerous health benefits have been demonstrated following resistance training. …”
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