BACKGROUND Personality traits associated with one's health beliefs and expectations constitute a determinant of dietary behaviours. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to analyse the dietary behaviours of young American football players in the Polish clubs and association thereof with their general self-efficacy level. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included the group of 100 young men (20-3...

T he relationship between children and athletic activities is a critical factor in psychological, physical, and emotional growth. Tremendous benefits can evolve from youth sports participation, during which socialization patterns are being established and musculoskeletal growth and development are occurring. Likewise, bad experiences at these stages can be devastating to vulnerable personalitie...

D ifferentiating between young, athletic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and elite athletes sometimes can be problematic. Left ventricular hypertrophy is seen mainly in athletes participating in endurance sports. A conflict exists with regard to strength athletes. Recent investigations suggest that strength athletes who use anabolic steroids have increased left ventricular hyper...

Elite young athletes have to cope with multiple psychological demands such as training volume, mental and physical fatigue, spatial separation of family and friends or time management problems may lead to reduced mental and physical recovery. While normative data regarding symptoms of anxiety and depression for the general population is available (Hinz and Brähler, 2011), hardly any information...

It is recognized that much of the dietary data on adolescents and athletes is prone to reporting error, mostly through under-reporting. Nevertheless, in the majority of studies assessing the nutritional intake of young soccer players under-reporting has not been taken into consideration. The purpose of this study was to assess the dietary intake of a sample of young male Italian high-level socc...

This study aims to determine the effect of a single exhausting exercise on plasma PYY, NPY and IGF-1 in young athletes. Thirty-one young athletes (aged 19.52±2.75 years, body mass 79.24±16.13 kg, height 173±6.49 cm, and body fat 16.37±5.92%) volunteered to participate in this study. The participations, in randomized crossover manner, performed a single exercise bout on a cycle ergometer at 50...