scholarly journals Influence of physical effort on habitual body postures of sportsmen and sportwomen doing competitive sports

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Mirosław Mrozkowiak ◽  
Marek Sokołowski ◽  
Alicja Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Body Postures ◽  
Habitual Body

The influence of intention implementation on throw effectiveness of young basketball players

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Wilczynska ◽  
Patrycja Lipinska ◽  
Malgorzata Wolujewicz-Czerlonko
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Physiological Cost ◽  
State Orientation ◽  
Efficiency Test ◽  
Visualization Techniques

AbstractBackground: The purpose of the following research was to find out the influence of imaginary training based on intention implementation on throw effectiveness of young basketball players, both male and female in stressogenic situations. Individual differences (action vs state orientation) between players were also measured in this research.Material/Methods: 76 players (32 females and 44 males) in the cadet category (15-16 years old) from basketball clubs of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot took part in this research. In the first stage all players did a throw efficiency test ERPE 05 under two conditions, and their heart rate was measured. Then players were randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first one did imaginary training based on the influence of intention implementation for 10 days, while the other did not. After 10 days ERPE 05 test under two conditions was run again.Results: Test results showed that intention implementation does not influence effectiveness improvement in stressogenic conditions as far as state-oriented players are concerned, but it does lower the physiological cost of physical effort in form of a decreased heart rate.Conclusions: This research proves that visualization training based on implementation instructions does influence young players’ physiology and significantly lowers their heart rate under stressogenic conditions. However useful, visualization techniques used in this research still need other tests and should be applied for a longer period of time to acutely show how they affect young players’ mental preparation

How adolescents and adults translate motivational value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M Rodman ◽  
Katherine Powers ◽  
Catherine Insel ◽  
Erik K Kastman ◽  
Katherine Kabotyanski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Incentive Motivation ◽  
Reward Processing ◽  
Monetary Reward ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Adolescents And Adults

Adults titrate the degree of physical effort they are willing to expend according to the magnitude of reward they expect to obtain, a process guided by incentive motivation. However, it remains unclear whether adolescents, who are undergoing normative developmental changes in cognitive and reward processing, translate incentive motivation into action in a way that is similarly tuned to reward value and economical in effort utilization. The present study adapted a classic physical effort paradigm to quantify age-related changes in motivation-based and strategic markers of effort exertion for monetary rewards from adolescence to early adulthood. One hundred and three participants aged 12-23 years completed a task that involved exerting low or high amounts of physical effort, in the form of a hand grip, to earn low or high amounts of money. Adolescents and young adults exhibited highly similar incentive-modulated effort for reward according to measures of peak grip force and speed, suggesting that motivation for monetary reward is consistent across age. However, young adults expended energy more economically and strategically: whereas adolescents were prone to exert excess physical effort beyond what was required to earn reward, young adults were more likely to strategically prepare before each grip phase and conserve energy by opting out of low reward trials. This work extends theoretical models of development of incentive-driven behavior by demonstrating that layered on similarity in motivational value for monetary reward, there are important differences in the way behavior is flexibly adjusted in the presence of reward from adolescence to young adulthood.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet O'Shea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Play ◽  
The World ◽  
Right Wing Populism

This section contends with a central irony: Americans are among the most competitive people in the world, and yet we are among the least likely to play competitive sports in adulthood. This exercise gap is usually treated as a public health problem; the goal of this section is to treat it as a social and cultural concern. The conclusion therefore investigates the social and political implications of an American tendency to outsource physical play to experts: higher levels of fear, increased preoccupation with success at all costs, decreased creativity, and increasing rigidity of perspective and position. Specifically, the conclusion maintains that a neglect of fair play has dire consequences for democracy, a suggestion born out by the recent swing toward right-wing populism in politics.

scholarly journals Monomorphic Ventricular Arrhythmias in Athletes

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J Hsu ◽  
Ali Nsair ◽  
Jamil A Aboulhosn ◽  
Tamara B Horwich ◽  
Ravi H Dave ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Ventricular Arrhythmias ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Structural Heart Disease ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Ventricular Cardiomyopathy ◽  
Electrical Heart Disease ◽  
Increase Risk

Ventricular arrhythmias are challenging to manage in athletes with concern for an elevated risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) during sports competition. Monomorphic ventricular arrhythmias (MMVA), while often benign in athletes with a structurally normal heart, are also associated with a unique subset of idiopathic and malignant substrates that must be clearly defined. A comprehensive evaluation for structural and/or electrical heart disease is required in order to exclude cardiac conditions that increase risk of SCD with exercise, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Unique issues for physicians who manage this population include navigating athletes through the decision of whether they can safely continue their chosen sport. In the absence of structural heart disease, therapies such as radiofrequency catheter ablation are very effective for certain arrhythmias and may allow for return to competitive sports participation. In this comprehensive review, we summarise the recommendations for evaluating and managing athletes with MMVA.

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