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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"GV711 Coaching"”.
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AN INITIAL EXPLORATION OF YOUTH ELITE COACHES ́ PEDAGOGICAL BEHAVIOURS DURING VIDEO-BASED FEEDBACK SESSIONS: EXAMINING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN COACHES ́ BEHAVIOURS AND THEIR UNDERPINNING COGNITIONS.
A call for ‘athlete-centred’ approaches in coaching has been encouraged due to some evidence suggesting the enhancement of learning through questioning and when feedback is implicit, delayed, positive or reduced in frequency (García-González et al., 2013; Masters, 1992; Wulf et al., 2002; Wulf et …
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Gendered Issues Associated with the Complexities of the Football Association’s Coach Education Process
… as a crucial mechanism for endorsing sports coaching and facilitating sports coaching practitioners’ professional development and competency. As a result, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of sports coaching research scholars investigating formal coach education. Previous …
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Investigating the Junior-to-Senior Transition in Sport: Interventions to Support the Transitional Process
This thesis extended knowledge of the junior-to-senior transition in the context of British track-and-field. The central purpose of this thesis was to (a) explore the junior-to-senior transition in sport and (b) design, implement, and evaluate an athlete-based intervention designed to support the …
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Speed Endurance Training in Elite Youth Soccer Players
The physical demands of soccer match play have significantly increased in recent years. As such, training methods must evolve to ensure players are able to cope with these demands over the course of a season. Speed endurance training is recommended to improve physical performance in elite soccer …
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An examination of the training loads within elite professional football
The popularity of soccer throughout the world has led to the demand for a scientific approach to the preparation of players for competitive matches. Although previous researchers have attempted to understand the training demands undertaken by soccer players, limited information is known regarding …
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Examining tennis coaches constructions of their role in a perfromance setting: What is it like to coach an elite junior tennis player?
Despite a growing body of research into sports coaching there remains little understanding of what it is like to coach elite junior tennis players. The purpose of this PhD was to examine the lived coaching experience of independent tennis coaches and describe what it is like to be a coach of an …
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Examining The Physical Demands of Elite Rugby League Match-Play
The work undertaken from the studies in this thesis provides novel information in relation to the physical match demands of the European Super League (ESL) competition, focusing on a newly promoted ESL franchise. Specifically, this is the first work to examine the physical demands of competition …
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The biomechanical demands of snowboard landings in training with elite freestyle snowboard athletes
Freestyle snowsport has emerged as one of the fastest growing Winter Olympic sports in the past decade, despite this no countries/teams have published data explaining the sports biomechanical demands in training or competition. Information describing the kinetic, kinematic and muscular demands …
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An examination of the resistance training practices within an elite senior English Premier League professional football club.
Limited research data is available outlining the resistance training characteristics of elite football players. The aim of the first study (Chapter 3) was to compare approaches to calculating resistance training volume during 4 weeks of pre-season training in 23 English Premier League footballers. …
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Exploring the Managerial Cycle of Professional Football League Managers in England and Norway
To gain a critical understanding of the lived challenges within the managerial cycle (recruitment, employment, termination) in professional league football, the research initially followed a qualitative approach in the form of semi-structured interviews. A total of 16 professional league managers …
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The effects of training organisation on the physiological, metabolic and molecular responses to a soccer-specified laboratory based training simulation
Player's performance in competitive matches is partly determined by the systematic training programmes that they complete. The differences in the organisation of training may result in differences in the physiological stress placed on players. This study aimed to investigate the influence of …
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Physiological and biochemical responses to exercise and training in adolescent runners
… differences between boys and girls. From a coaching viewpoint the results reveal that, from the age of 14 to 18 years, runners should be introduced to high intensity training and that changes to the format of middle distance running performance in adolescent competition are recommended.