Competitive athletes are pushed routinely to the limits of their physical abilities. When tempered with periods of rest and recovery, a highly demanding training schedule can have tremendous benefits. However when an athlete is pushed too far, overtraining syndrome (OTS) can develop and result in career-ending damage. Overreaching and overtraining are part of the same spectrum that can lead to ...

At a time when the memory of Herbert Marcuse is fresh in the minds of many on the left, it is perhaps particularly fitting to focus our attention on the special place held in Marcuse's thought by the concept of memory. Many of his earlier commentators have, in fact, already noted its importance.' One of the more astute of their number, Fredric Jameson, even went so far as to claim that the theo...

The article presents the results of a study on role coach in motivating athletes to build two careers, as well their coaches' views dual careers girls and boys. have showed that student-athletes high school sports schools often perceived motivational climate created by process aimed at achieving results. interviewed explained this approach did not motivate them learning process, moreover, deval...

The holistic ecological approach to talent development in sport highlights the central role of the overall environment as it affects a prospective elite athlete. This paper examines a flat-water kayak environment in Norway with a history of successfully producing top-level senior athletes from among its juniors. Principal methods of data collection include interviews, participant observations o...

The aim of this study is to describe the processes of capturing injury data of elite athletes using information and communication technologies (ICT) and the subsequent knowledge transfer of that data for analysis by medical and healthcare professionals. Previous inhibitors to effective knowledge transfer include poor data capture quality. This resulted from lack of resources to capture the data...

Currently little is known about the prevalence and etiology of depression in the athletic population (Nixdorf et al., 2015). Almost 75% of mental health difficulties first emerge between the ages of 15 and 25 (Kessler et al., 2005). And arguably the peak years for elite sport performance overlap with the period where the risk of mental health disorders are highest. Given the context of sport an...

The purpose of this study was to compare the main kinematic, kinetic, and dynamic parameters of elite and well-trained sprinters during the starting block phase and the 2 subsequent steps. Six elite sprinters (10.06-10.43 s/100 m) and 6 well-trained sprinters (11.01-11.80 s/100 m) equipped with 63 passive reflective markers performed 4 maximal 10 m sprint starts on an indoor track. An opto-elec...

Talent identification is often used in a variety of sports by coaches, scouts, and scientists. Talent Identification can be defined as the process of identifying current athletes with the potential to progress into elite athletes (Unnithan et al., 2012). Concerning baseball, there are specific skills that coaches and scouts look for in athletes (i.e. power, strength, and body composition). Howe...