A software made in Visual Basic® is presented here, attending two important competencies in the ftrst formation of any preservice Physical Education (PE) teacher or any sport coach: l) time management available to develop the contents in a school or in the training sessions, and 2)feedback administra/ion for both students and athletes. Time management and feedback administration have been shown...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Although dietary supplements (DSs) in sports are considered a natural need resulting from athletes' increased physical demands, and although they are often consumed by athletes, data on DS usage in Olympic sailing are scarce. The aim of this study was to study the use of and attitudes towards DSs and doping problems in high-level competitive sailing. METHODS The sampl...

Preparation strategies (i.e., pre-game rituals, pre-performance routines) have long been a topic of study in sport psychology. However, previous research has focused on closed-skill tasks and employed methodologies that make it difficult to capture athletes’ perspectives these behaviors. The purpose this was explore the perceptions open-skill athletes regarding their preparation strategies. Nin...

The Internet provides an unprecedented forum for communication, collaboration, access to information, and dissemination of ideas, resources, and learning opportunities. Increased bandwidth for data transfer has enabled an amazingly diverse set of multimedia applications to emerge within a very short time. This paper examines these specific Internet opportunities in the context of sport sciences...

The aim of this study was to identify the importance assigned by futsal coaches with different education levels to the sports performance factors (technical, tactical, physical and psychological) and to the training contents. The sample was divided into three groups (novice: n=35, intermediate: n=42; and elite coaches: n=15) depending on the degree of specific education, coaching experience and...

The importance of sport as a social, psychological, and cultural agenda in today’s world can by no means be denied. This is, as a rule, reflected in all its aspects through the language of media. The present descriptive study has thus tried to investigate how the language of sports media shape sport consumers such as coaches, players, the audience, and sporting officials at large. For this purp...

Applied sport psychologists tend to begin their consulting relationships with national teams having formalized skills, and often, limited contextual and sport- specific understanding. The present report overviews the first four years of a long-term consulting relationship one practitioner developed with the Canadian National Boxing Team. From the vantage of an applied sport psychology consultan...

Field-based anti-doping interventions in sport are scarce and focus on athletes. However, coaches are recognized as one of the most significant source of influence in terms of athletes' cognitions, affect, and behavior. In this paper, we present the protocol for a cluster randomized control trial which aims to contrast the relative effects of a 'motivation and anti-doping' intervention program ...