A descriptive study of awareness and usage of imagery among elite track and field female athletes

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Kasbparast Jui Ray ◽  
Masoumeh Shojaei ◽  
Foruzan Abdolali
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Track And Field

PROFIL KOMPONEN FISIK PREDOMINAN DARI KONDISI FISIK ATLET GULAT JAWA BARAT PADA PON XVIII RIAU 2012

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Karima Akhlaqunnisa ◽  
Titing Nurhayati ◽  
Nova Sylviana ◽  
Ambrosius Purba ◽  
Panji Fortuna Hadisoemarto
Keyword(s):  
Physical Condition ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Condition Indicators ◽  
Category System ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Condition Indicator

During the National Sports Week XVIII held in September 2012, wrestling athletes from WestJava Province could not meet the expected performance; since they got only one gold and twobronze medals. The athletes performance usually affected by three factors; physicalcondition, technique, and mental condition. To achieve the best result, the gold medal, athletesshould have good predominant physical condition indicators, such as muscle strength,endurance, power, and flexibility. The purpose of this study is to know the physical conditionof West Javas wrestling athletes in the National Sports Week XVIII. The method used wascross-sectional descriptive study using secondary data obtained from Sports MedicineDepartment of National Sports Committee of Indonesia in Bandung. The data are chosen frompredominant physical condition indicator explained before, along with cardio-respiratoryendurance. After that, we compared the data we obtained with National Sports Committee ofIndonesias standards and categorized it specific type; less, enough, good, very good, andperfect. Male and female athletes had different category system. After analyzed, we found thatseveral predominant physical components of wrestling athletes of West Java Province inNational Sports Week XVIII had not met the requirement for good and perfect category andneeded to be improved. In conclusion, athletes should be able to get a gold medal if theirpredominant physical component achieves the good and perfect category.

Diet Quality Profile of Track-and-Field Paralympic Athletes

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 589-595
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Joaquim ◽  
Claudia R. Juzwiak ◽  
Ciro Winckler
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Healthy Eating Index ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Maximum Score

This study aimed to assess the diet quality of Brazilian Paralympic track-and-field team sprinters and its variation between days. All sprinters (n = 28) were invited, and 20 (13 men and seven women) accepted the invitation consisting of 13 athletes with visual impairment, four with cerebral palsy, and three with limb deficiency. The dietary intake was recorded by photographic register on four consecutive days, and diet quality was determined using a revised version of the Healthy Eating Index for the Brazilian population. Physical activity was assessed using an accelerometer, and metabolic unit information was used to classify exercise intensity. Variance Analysis Model and Bonferroni multiple comparisons were used to assess relationships between variables. The correlations between variables used Pearson linear correlation coefficient. The results show that revised version of the Healthy Eating Index score was classified as “needs to be modified” for all athletes. The maximum score for the components “Whole fruits,” “Total vegetables,” and “Dark green and orange vegetables and legumes” was achieved by 23.1% and 14.3%, 7.7% and 14.3%, and 46.2% and 57.8% of male and female athletes, respectively. Only 38.5% of the male athletes achieved the maximum score for the “Total cereal” component. Female athletes achieved higher scores than male athletes for the “Milk and dairy products” component (p = .03). Intake of whole grain cereals, dairy products, vegetables, and whole fruits needs modifications to improve adequate intake of vitamins and antioxidants, highlighting the need of continuous actions of nutrition education for this population.

scholarly journals Athletes’ Physical Performance in the System of the Sports Medicine Technologies Effectiveness Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Anna A. Kish ◽  
Evgeny V. Goloborodko ◽  
Sergey M. Razinkin ◽  
Artem M. Komlev
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Physical Performance ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Bicycle Ergometer ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Specific Loading ◽  
Rowing Ergometer

Aim. To determine the effectiveness of the specific loading testing use in assessing the athletes’ physical performance. Material and methods. We present a post-hoc analysis of data from specific and nonspecific loading testing (bicycle ergometer, treadmill, rowing ergometer, and ski treadmill) of 23 oarsmen athletes (13 male (mean age 25.85±0.88 years) and 10 female (mean age 22.90±1.20 years); 125 track and field athletes (75 male athletes (mean age 24.74±0.91) and 50 female athletes (mean age 23.81±1.35)), 38 ski athletes (22 male athletes (mean age 21.3±2.4) and 16 female athletes (mean age 19.6±1.8)). Results and discussion. When assessing the physical performance of track and field athletes of various positions using a bicycle ergometer and a treadmill, the maximum oxygen consumption (MOC) parameter for throwers and jumpers was in the range of 29-55 ml/min/kg (it is more appropriate to use a statoergometer), for runners – 39-75 ml/min/kg (testing on a treadmill is preferable). The greatest efficiency and physiological validity was obtained by load testing using a rowing ergometer for rowing athletes and a ski roller treadmill for athletes of ski sports (the ratio of heart rate at the anaerobic metabolism threshold level to the heart rate “on failure” is ~ 97%). With bicycle ergometry, low values of MOC were obtained in athletes training for endurance, and, including on the treadmill, in athletes with the main strength load and implies the work of the muscles of the upper shoulder girdle and back. The functional and reserve capabilities of the athlete are not reflected in the data obtained that makes impossible to judge the level of his/her functional readiness. Conclusion. Sports medicine technologies reflecting the dynamic characteristics of athletes’ physical performance should be evaluated from the point of view of informativeness and efficiency of their application depending on the type of sport. Conclusion about the effectiveness of sports medicine technologies should be made considering the results of the functional and physical performance testing under the exertion, specific to a particular sport.

scholarly journals Are inappropriate eating behaviors and anxiety related with track and field in adolescent athletes?

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo de Sousa Fortes ◽  
Sebastião de Sousa Almeida ◽  
Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Subscale Score ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Oral Control ◽  
Food Preoccupation

OBJECTIVE: The study analyzed the relationship between anxiety and inappropriate eating behaviors in adolescent female athletes. METHODS: Eighty-eight track and field athletes aged 12 to 17 years participated in the study. We used the Eating Attitudes Test-26 subscales to assess inappropriate eating behaviors and the Brazilian State - Trait Anxiety Inventory subscales to assess State and Trait anxiety. RESULTS: State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.18) or State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.14) had no significant influence on the Dieting subscale score. The Bulimia and Food Preoccupation subscale score was also not influenced by State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.25) or State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.21). However, State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.048) had a significant impact on the Oral Control subscale score, but State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.19) did not explain its variance. CONCLUSION: Only State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait was related to oral control and the environmental and social forces that encourage food intake in female athletes.

“Because They Have Muscles, Big Ones”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Parks Pieper
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
International Association ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
True Womanhood ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Sport

This chapter examines how Cold War tensions heightened the fear of fraudulent competitors in international sport. The Cold War exacerbated earlier sex/gender concerns and resulted in a mandatory examination for all female track and field competitors, especially in the wake of Soviet women's remarkable achievements in athletics. Sport authorities grew increasingly worried that powerful female athletes were either unnaturally inauthentic women, men posing as women, or dopers. Using the USSR women as scapegoats, the International Association of Athletics Federation established tests to eliminate all three categories and delineate “true” womanhood. In 1966, the federation introduced a “nude parade,” the first compulsory sex test of modern sport.

scholarly journals Changes in Body Composition and Its Relationship to Performance in Elite Female Track and Field Athletes Transitioning to the Senior Division

Sports ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Yuka Tsukahara ◽  
Suguru Torii ◽  
Fumihiro Yamasawa ◽  
Jun Iwamoto ◽  
Takanobu Otsuka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
International Association ◽  
Upper Extremities ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
X Ray ◽  
University Level ◽  
Total Body

Many elite female athletes struggle to maintain performance while transitioning from high school to university-level (senior) sports. This study explores factors of body composition that influenced performance in elite junior female track and field athletes transitioning to the senior division. Forty-two elite female track and field athletes, ranked among the top 100 in Japan, were enrolled in this study. Whole-body mode dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans were performed during the post-season of 2016 and 2017. Athletes’ performances were assessed using the International Association of Athletics Federation scoring system. Relationships between changes in performance and those in body composition were investigated. There were significant negative correlations between changes in performance and fat mass (FM), and percentage FM (FM%). This was seen in total body and lower extremities, and not in the trunk and upper extremities. In addition, there was a positive correlation between changes in performance and percentage lean mass (LM%). However, there were no correlations between changes in performance and LM and total mass. Elite female track and field athletes transitioning to senior division should decrease their FM and FM% and increase LM%, to sustain or improve performance. It is also more important to monitor changes in body composition than body mass.

Sex-Role Orientations of Female NCAA Championship Gymnasts

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 625-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Edwards ◽  
Richard D. Gordin ◽  
Keith P. Henschen
Keyword(s):  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Normative Sample ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Role Orientations ◽  
Female Gymnasts

84 female gymnasts at the 1982 National Collegiate Athletic Association National Gymnastics Championships completed the Bern Sex-role Inventory. The data were compared with previously published data on sex-role orientations of female athletes and nonathletes. The gymnasts' sex-role orientations were significantly different from both the normative sample of college students and the previously published sex-role orientations of track and field athletes. These results support the hypothesis that sex-role orientation may be a major determinant in the choice to participate in some women's sports.

College Athletes Under Pressure: Eating Disorders Among Female Track and Field Athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243
Author(s):  
Michael A. Quinn ◽  
Stephanie Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
College Female ◽  
Competition Level ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
Jel Classifications

Eating disorders are a widespread problem for college female athletes. This article builds on this research by collecting survey data from female college track and field athletes at 30 universities. Results find that the division level is not a significant driver of eating disorders. Another significant finding comes from breaking out the pressures into its team-related and social causes. Results find that team-related pressures lead to more vomiting behavior, while social pressures impact dieting. Previous studies which aggregate pressures, rely on one eating disorder, or focus on a single university for their sampling may not reflect these complex relationships. Even after controlling for individual factors, competition level, and team nutritionists, the pressures still impact these athletes. This suggests a need for additional screenings and counselors to address pressures occurring both on and off the track. While difficult to achieve, there needs to be a change in team cultures across all divisions. JEL Classifications: I1, Z2

scholarly journals Assessment of Specificity of the Badcamp Agility Test for Badminton Players

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-198
Author(s):  
Luiz de França Bahia Loureiro ◽  
Mário Oliveira Costa Dias ◽  
Felipe Couto Cremasco ◽  
Maicon Guimarães da Silva ◽  
Paulo Barbosa de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Reliable Test ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Shuttle Run

AbstractThe Badcamp agility test was created to evaluate agility of badminton players. The Badcamp is a valid and reliable test, however, a doubt about the need for the use of this test exists as simpler tests could provide similar information about agility in badminton players. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine the specificity of the Badcamp, comparing the performance of badminton players and athletes from other sports in the Badcamp and the shuttle run agility test (SRAT). Sixty-four young male and female athletes aged between 14 and 16 years participated in the study. They were divided into 4 groups of 16 according to their sport practices: badminton, tennis, team sport (basketball and volleyball), and track and field. We compared the groups in both tests, the Badcamp and SRAT. The results revealed that the group of badminton players was faster compared to all other groups in the Badcamp. However, in the SRAT there were no differences among groups composed of athletes from open skill sports (e.g., badminton, tennis, and team sports), and a considerable reduction of the difference between badminton players and track and field athletes. Thus, we concluded that the Badcamp test is a specific agility test for badminton players and should be considered in evaluating athletes of this sport modality.

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