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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"older athletes"”.
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Long-Term Stability of Baseline Impact Scores in High School Football Players across Age Groups
… stability between age groups, with younger athletes demonstrating improvements in performance consistent with ongoing cognitive development and older athletes demonstrating more stability in performance. Importantly, the Reaction Time composite score remained stable among all groups. Results …
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The Effects That Sport Specialization has on Youth Athletes
… is becoming more popular than ever. Many athletes, parents and coaches think that sport specialization is the best way to reach elite level status in a sport. However, athletes, parents and coaches don’t know all of the positive and negative effects of specialization in a sport. Whereas, …
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"Life is good. Life is what you make it" The significance of a third place: an ethnography of Masters swimming.
… that more people swim regularly. Masters athletes are viewed as being unique as they continue to take part well into old age. The principal challenge of the research was to make sense of the Masters swimming culture in order that a more informed dialogue of “active” sport participation, …
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A Comparison of the Pulmonary Function of Older Endurance Athletes with Age-Matched Sedentary Controls
Purpose: To compare the pulmonary function of older runners with non-runners and also the population norms. Method: 40 males ages 45 to 65 were compared for respiratory muscle strength, spirometry and maximum voluntary ventilation. Univariate and multivariate analysis (p < 0.05) were used to …