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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"athletic performance"”.
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Lifeskill intervention and elite athletic performance
… a lifeskills education program on the perceived performance, mood, self-concept, and well being of elite, scholarship athletes.
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The Relationship Between Vision and Athletic Performance
<p>In today's competitive world of athletics it is not uncommon to discover a few athletes actively involved in some form of vision enhancement motivated by the promise that the exercises will improve their athletic performance. A review of past and present literature in the area of sports vision …
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The genetic basis of human athletic performance
… (I/D) polymorphism and endurance performance, skeletal and cardiac muscle hypertrophy and performance in power associated sporting events. The nitric oxide synthase (ecNOS) G894T polymorphism is associated with endurance training induced decreased submaximal diastolic blood …
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Bilateral and unilateral resistance training and athletic performance
… physiological adaptation of training to improved athletic performance. In resistance training, it has long been identified that the closer the mechanical specificity between the training exercise and outcome performance, the greater the transfer of improved capacity. Bilateral resistance exercises …
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The role of surface condition in athletic performance
… training devices have become a popular means in athletic training and rehabilitation of mimicking unstable surfaces during movements like vertical jumps. Of note, under unstable conditions, trunk muscles seem to have a stabilizing function during exercise to facilitate the transfer of torques and …
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Predicting athletic performance: the effects of judgment and motivation
… and judgment on the relationship between athletic ability and athletic performance. Much existing empirical literature has focused on motivation and cognitive ability in relation to athletic performance, but athlete judgment has received relatively little research attention. It was …
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Impact Of Hydration On Collegiate Athletic Performance, Fatigue, And Recovery
… physiological functions that are critical for athletic performance is well studied. Hydration monitoring has been known to have significant value on impaired physical functions by maximizing performance during training and competition. Impaired physical functions has been suggested as a …
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Relationally-Autonomous Reasons as a Predictor of Collegiate Athletic Performance
… a short questionnaire and their previous athletic performance was used as well. The two sets of data were then used to examine the relationship between the two variables. The results of the study showed a positive correlation between Relationally-Autonomous Reasons (RAR) and performance. …
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An experimental study of the effect of caffeine upon athletic performance
<p>The improvement of physical performance has long been a problem of great importance to athletes, coaches, and physical educators. Many different methods and techniques of coaching, conditioning, and motivation have been utilized in an effort to push the participant to his top or ultimate …
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Effects of the menstrual cycle and oral contraceptives on athletic performance
… of different phases of the menstrual cycle on athletic performance, and information is even more sparse on potential effects of oral contraceptive agents (OCAs) on performance. Many of the earlier studies failed to accurately document the phase of the cycle, or used a variety of different oral …
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Using the self-as-a-model with video editing in athletic performance
… self-modeling strategy in increasing the performance of four University of the Pacific baseball players. A multiple baseline design across participants was used as a means of assessing the effectiveness of the self-modeling technique. Participants viewed edited positive self-modeling …
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Vitamin D and Athletic Performance: A Critical Assessment for Coaches and Athletes
… vitamin D status may positively influence athletic performance indicators, namely strength, power, speed, cardiorespiratory fitness, reaction time, coordination, and body composition. However, there is a lack of consensus among the Institute of Medicine and various vitamin D researchers in …
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Vitamin D and Athletic Performance: A Critical Assessment for Coaches and Athletes
… vitamin D status may positively influence athletic performance indicators, namely strength, power, speed, cardiorespiratory fitness, reaction time, coordination, and body composition. However, there is a lack of consensus among the Institute of Medicine and various vitamin D researchers in …
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Double play : athletes' use of sport video games to enhance athletic performance
… playing sport video games and actual physical performance has not yet been established. Drawing on data from interviews and observations of elite athletes playing sport video games, this thesis explores why elite athletes are playing these video games as their virtual selves, and establishes a …
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Effectiveness of sleep extension on athletic performance and nutrition of female track athletes
… sleep (sleep deprivation), on athletes' performance have been well documented. In contrast, increasing sleep (sleep extension), has not been thoroughly investigated in this population. Furthermore, the effect of sleep on an athlete's nutrition behaviors and choices has yet to be …
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Relationships and Sports: Mechanisms in Relational Motivation and Its Impact on Athletic Performance
… drive relational motivation that in turn affects athletic performance. Participants (n = 156) in this study were student-athletes from various sports, who completed a questionnaire. Athletic performance was obtained and standardized through each athlete’s performance statistics within their sport. …
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Investigating the relationship between personality traits and athletic performance among elite hockey players
… the relationship between personality traits and athletic performances. In non-sport settings, the conscientiousness trait has been found to be strongly related to a number of good outcomes including job and training proficiency, academic performances, and physical activity (Barrick & Mout, 1991; …
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Guidelines for Psychomotor Skill Instruction for Athletic Performance: A Design and Development Study
… guidance for effective learning. The realm of athletics is an area that can benefit from these instructional frameworks by providing systematic methods to facilitate an efficient learning process. This study employed Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction to develop instructional guidelines for …
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Sleep and athletic performance of Formula 1 race car drivers during the 2019 season
… good quality sleep is associated with better performance in many sports; however, this relationship has not been examined among motorsport athletes. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between sleep quality (SQ), sleep duration (SD), and performance metrics among …
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