April marked the 1-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombings, which brought our city to a standstill as we endured a terrorist attack, manhunt, and subsequent lockdown of the metropolitan area. Twin explosions near the marathon finish line, occurring just minutes apart, left 3 people dead and hundreds injured. In the hour that followed the bombing, the city of Boston and privately run am...

OBJECTIVES To determine if the changes in specific skinfold sites induced by intense athletic conditioning over a three year period were associated with changes in running performance in high level athletes. METHODS Thirty seven top class runners (eight male and five female sprint trained, 16 male and eight female endurance trained) volunteered to participate in the study. The athletes were d...

Critical physiological factors for performance in running are maximal oxygen consumption (VO(2max)), fractional VO(2max) utilization and running economy. While Kenyan and Caucasian elite runners are able to reach very high, but similar maximal oxygen uptake levels, the VO(2max) of black South African elite runners seems to be slightly lower. Moreover, the studies of black and white South Africa...

We studied the rate of urinary excretion of albumin, alpha 1-microglobulin (as an indicator of the renal tubular involvement), sodium, potassium, and creatinine in the basal state (overnight urine collection) and after physical exercise (training session) in 10 professional cyclists, to verify whether protein excretion is increased even in well-trained athletes after physical effort. In additio...

Çalışmanın amacı, uluslararası düzeyde mücadele eden, iyi antrenmanlı bisikletçilerin uyguladıkları toparlanma stratejilerinin ve uygulama nedenlerinin incelenmesidir. Araştırmaya, haftada en az 5 gün, 16 saat antrenman yapan, 19 erkek 13 kadın toplam 32 bisikletçi katılmıştır. Sporcuların yöntemlerinin belirlenmesi için “Sporcu Toparlanma Formu” uygulanmıştır. Verilerin normalliği “Shapiro Wil...

STUDY DESIGN Single-subject with repeated measures. OBJECTIVES To determine if runners can use real-time visual feedback from an accelerometer to achieve immediate reductions in tibial acceleration and vertical-force loading rates. BACKGROUND Stress fractures are a common injury among runners. Previous studies suggest that runners with higher than normal tibial acceleration and vertical-for...

AIMS We assessed the changes in cardiac morphology between elite endurance-trained runners (n = 42) and elite sprinters (n = 34) over a 5-year period. In addition, we studied the relationship between heart size and maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 max). METHODS At the beginning of 5 consecutive seasons, all athletes underwent an incremental running test to determine VO2 max and a color-coded p...

Recreational long-distance runners’ exercising levels often considerably exceed those necessary for keeping healthy. As their running careers unfold, many runners become inspired not so much by fitness and health but other corollaries of running, such as capacity to endure high pain exhaustion or novel bodily experiences. I show in the ethnographic example Estonian runners, a “low-resolution” e...