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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"gyms"”.
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Rock Climber Awareness of the A2 Pulley Injury and Associated Safety Practices in Recreational Indoor Bouldering Gyms
… by rock climbers in commercial climbing gyms. To explore this, a survey was circulated to climbing gyms across Texas that focused on climbing experience, injury history, awareness, and preventative strategies. A majority of climbers were not sure or unaware of the A2 pulley injury (61%) …
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The material culture of Muay Thai within the linguistic landscapes of selected South African and Thailand gyms.
This thesis explores the representation of Muay Thai within vastly different sporting spaces of South Africa and Thailand under the lens of material culture. Muay Thai is Thailand’s national sport, which has been practiced for centuries. It is gaining popularity worldwide as a martial art, a system …
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Saving Children and Physical Education from Particulate Matter: The Politics of Air Pollution, Moving Bodies, and School Gyms in South Korea
… PM guidelines, and promoted construction of gyms and indoor physical activities. Situating the issue of PM within the broader social, political, and economic contexts of South Korea, I explore how the issue of PM and its risk to children’s health has become a dominant public and state concern …
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"Moving like a boxer" : a study of Cape Town's boxing youth
… to investigate the topic of 'community' boxing gyms in the city of Cape Town. Broadly, it asks the question: what is it about boxing (and particularly boxing) that seems to dictate its co-occurrence with scenarios of social precarity? To answer this question, the study uses ethnographic methods …
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Sports Center (relationship between architectural space and exercise performance)
… properly. Today, there are many sport centers( gyms) for people to choose. Most of the gyms are simply rooms with machines. Although their spaces can fulfill the basic demands of a workout gym (function), the function of gym design is not only to give people space to work out, but also to use …
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Altered brain activity in autistic children versus healthy controls while performing simple tasks using fMRI
… Attention was focused on the middle frontal gyms and the inferior frontal gyms, of both the left and right sides of the brain. Temporal correlations between these 4 regions-of-interest (ROIs) were examined for all 5 stimuli. A ttest was then performed across subjects to reveal differences in …
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A mediating effect of customer retention on the Customer Lifetime Value Achievement among fitness industry in Malaysia: A study on the fitness industry in Malaysia and the creation of Customer Lifetime Value to enhance customer retention
… in most social media news. However, most fitness gyms are unable to retain their customers for long as these businesses lack the knowledge of creating a concrete and innovative business strategy which provides a direction towards innovation and long-term relationships. Customer Lifetime Value may …
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A critical geography of physical activity: Investigating the role of gender in gym environments
… benefits as compared to their male counterparts. Gyms—although routine places for exercise—are conspicuously absent from health geography research. In this thesis, I investigate the central question: What is the role of an everyday exercise environment, specifically the gym, in the gendering of …
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Trans-forming gym spaces: researching the barriers faced by transgender adults accessing UK gym facilities
… of the adult transgender community who used gyms in the UK. Descriptive statistical analyses were used to identify patterns of opinion on barriers and potential solutions to accessing gym facilities and qualitative data were used to understand these patterns in context and depth. Analyses …
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Towards an Automated Weight Lifting Coach: Introducing LIFT
… This camera set up is not available at most gyms, so this motivates the use of a small, unobtrusive sensor to obtain data about an athlete's weightlifting technique. Researchers have shown that an accelerometer attached to a barbell while the athlete is lifting yields just as accurate …
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Intakes of Carbohydrates and Resistant Starch Food Sources Among Regular Exercisers in Blacksburg, VA and San Jose, Costa Rica
… of the subjects. Subjects were recruited at gyms in SJ (n=27) and Blacksburg (n=26). Participants kept 3-day food records and completed a questionnaire on eating habits and physical activity. Mean body mass index for the subjects was similar (SJ: 23.06 Kg/m² ± 2.55; Blacksburg: 23.53 Kg/m² ± …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… methods are used to trace knowledges at two gyms in Aotearoa New Zealand, including participant ethnography, longitudinal strength tracking with seven women weightlifters, focus groups with 15 women athletes, and interviews with three coaches. To map internationally circulating knowledges, …
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Embodying scales of Filipina/o American sporting life: transnational sporting cultures and practices in the Filipina/o diaspora
… including internet sports websites, basketball gyms, sports tournaments, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao family fight nights, Pacquiao boxing matches, and social media spaces. In particular, my work explores how power circulates across intersecting categories of difference, including, race, class, …
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Regulation of survival and synaptic connectivity in the adult brain by cell-intrinsic excitability
… of new neurons to the olfactory bulb and dentate gyms of mammalian brains is by now an accepted fact, the function of adult-generated neurons still largely remains a mystery. The ability of new neurons to form synapses with preexisting neurons without disrupting circuit function is central to the …
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Body Objectification and Elective Cosmetic Procedures in African American Women
… cosmetic surgeons' offices, hair salons, local gyms, and a local women's meeting and administered the Objectified Body scale. Forty-one African American women and 23 Caucasian women were recruited. None of the hypothesis were supported in this study; however, when the surgery variable was …
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Improving Well-Being With Naber: Creating A Mobile App Experience to Help People Move and Thrive in a New Neighborhood
… amenities such as grocery stores, restaurants, gyms, parks, and local recreation will help individuals gain a good understanding of whether or not they want to live in a specific neighborhood. During the second phase, a concept of a mobile application was developed that focused on this …
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Exercise Adherence Following Short Term Weight Loss Programs
… of similar weight loss programs in community gyms, recreation settings, and even within universities around the United States. The purpose of this study was to conduct a follow up assessment with participants who had formerly participated in the Spring 2008 or Fall 2008 weight loss program. By …
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(Re)Defining Modest Sportswear through the Hijabi Habitus: Intersections of Faith, Fashion, and Function in Muslim Women’s Sportswear Design
… spaces rather than constantly finding women-only gyms or workout areas. Collectively, these contributions position modest sportswear as a site where embodied religious practice, material design, and spatial negotiation intersect. This research contributes to fashion studies, design studies, modest …
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Supporting men who use anabolic steroids: A sequential multi-methods study
… networks and important environments such as gyms will increase opportunity to influence AAS choices and norms, and subsequently reduce risk of poor health outcomes amongst this population.
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Steroids in the gym: the law, strong bodies and masculinity in South Africa
… exceptionally popular in the last few decades. Gyms are primarily a middle class institution, attracting men and women of all races. The desire to get fit and strong and look good is strongly supported by media campaigns. For many men, particularly those that attended sports-focused, single-sex …
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