With the rapid development of computer technology, computer simulation technology as the mainstream of the computer industry has been applied in various industries in the world, and virtual reality technology as the mainstream technology of computer simulation technology has been widely used. The computer simulation technology is not only applicable to the transformation planning of the old cit...

Competitive athletes have goals to optimize performance and to maintain healthy body composition. Sports nutrition is a component of training programs often overlooked by student-athletes and their coaches. The purpose of this study was to examine student-athletes' sports nutrition knowledge across sex, class level, team, and completion of prior nutrition coursework. Participants included 123 m...

It is my pleasure to introduce the 6th edition of Sports Issue of JCCA. The last 5 years have been very successful to showcase Sports chiropractic research. You will find this issue very versatile and filled with interesting and thought provoking manuscripts. It covers hot topics such as, “Chiropractors tackling the inactivity epidemic”, “Concussions in the NHL”, “Early sports specialization” a...

The field of sports nutrition is a dynamic one. Core competencies in exercise physiology, psychology, integrated metabolism and biochemistry are the initial parameters for a successful career in sports nutrition. In addition to the academic fundamentals, it is imperative that the sports nutritionist understand the sport in which our client participates. This sport specific understanding should ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal association between sports participation and parent-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study that used data drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children in waves 3 (2008) and 4 (2010). Participants were a nationally representative sample of 4042 Australian children ages 8.25 (SD = 0.44) years a...

BACKGROUND The Surgeon General has called for an expansion of school-based extracurricular sports programs to address the obesity epidemic. However, little is known about the availability of and participation in high school extracurricular sports and how participation in these sports is related to high-risk behaviors. METHODS We surveyed Los Angeles County public high schools in 2002 to deter...

School sports societies are organised with the goal to enable pupils to engage in their preferred sports. Also, this system is implemented in certain sports within school sports societies with the aim to facilitate better development of motor and functional abilities, and anthropometric characteristics. During training sessions of school sports societies, pupils should not be exposed to excessi...

Psychology and personality of individuals may have implications for choice of, and performance in sports disciplines. Individual- and group sports differ in psychological requirements, such as, competitiveness, sensation seeking and risk taking attitude, often required in sports. There is sex difference in human in these qualities, which also show association with prenatal testosterone exposure...

The physical movement and the athletic movement and, furthermore, the whole of the physical activity, are distinct from other activities due to the organization on the basis of which it is practiced, to the way it is conducted and implemented and to the objectives which it involves. The legal entities in general and the ones of the sports sector in particular have been constituted so as to cove...

Sports and sports facilities development have improved rapidly over the past years in Malaysia. However, such improvements are inadequate compared to the overall development of sports at international level. In recent years sport is getting more and more influential and it will continue to grow in importance, even for developing countries. Recent developments have witnessed the use of sports fa...