The nutritional practices of athletes are critical to sports performance, since good result is the goal or expectations of all sports stake-holders, coaches, sports administrators/managers and spectators alike, therefore the issue of good nutrition regarding these "human machines" (athletes), calls for serious attention. This research, therefore tried to examine the nutritional practices of som...

CONTEXT How athletes from different sports perform on balance tests is not well understood. When prescribing balance exercises to athletes in different sports, it may be important to recognize performance variations. OBJECTIVE To compare static and dynamic balance among collegiate athletes competing or training in soccer, basketball, and gymnastics. DESIGN A quasi-experimental, between-grou...

One in four of all fractures involves the hand or wrist. This is true of sports injuries too. Even if fractures of the distal radius are excluded, injuries to the carpus, metacarpals, and phalanges are common in sport. Soft tissue injuries to joints are almost as common. The use of the hand and wrist in different sports affects the way they may be injured. Soccer players (except the goalkeeper)...

In order to improve the performance of children, their physical needs as well mental should be known. The aim this study is reveal perceptions basketball concepts athletes attending sports schools with help metaphors and drawings. A total 57 who trained in Ankara participated study. It was used qualitative research approach obtaining data, a personal information form applied each athlete "baske...

The purpose of present study was investigation of the effect of attentional focus of novice players’ self-statements in basketball free throw practice on their state anxiety in transfer test with spectators’ presence. Therefore, 38 novice females (mean of the age=22 yrs.) who had intermediate trait anxiety were selected randomly by sports competitive anxiety test (SCAT). The participants were a...

Successful sporting performance at elite levels of competition often depends heavily on the explosive leg power of the athletes involved. In many individual sports such as Track and Field events, Gymnastics and Diving the ability to use high levels of strength as quickly and as explosively as possible is essential to perform at elite levels. Many team sports also require high levels of explosiv...

football and basketball games have more In the United States, almost $12 billion a than doubled over the past decade (Team year is spent on the purchase of tickets to Marketing Report, 2002). sporting events (Street and Smith, 2002a). There is concern that this is creating an Teams in some of the major leagues such as economic disconnect between professional the National Basketball Association ...

Humans can perceive affordances both for themselves and for others, and affordance perception is a function of perceptual-motor experience involved in playing a sport. Two experiments investigated the enhanced affordance perception of athletes. In Experiment 1, basketball players and nonbasketball players provided perceptual reports for sports-relevant (maximum standing-reach and reach-with-jum...

BACKGROUND Female college basketball and soccer athletes have higher rates of anterior cruciate ligament injury than do their male counterparts. Rates of anterior cruciate ligament injuries for women and men in collegiate lacrosse have not been examined. Understanding anterior cruciate ligament injury patterns in lacrosse, a full-contact sport for men and noncontact sport for women, could furth...

PURPOSE To examine the physiological profiles of wheelchair basketball and tennis and specifically to: (a) identify if there are differences in the physiological profiles of wheelchair basketball and tennis players of a similar playing standard, (b) to determine whether the competitive physiological demands of these sports differed (c) and to explore the relationship between the blood lactate [...