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Coping and affect in performance by youth swimmers : an investigation of patterns of coping
(1993)
The primary purpose of this study was to examine how young
swimmers cope with the stress of sport during competition.
Specifically, this study will examine if swimmers use a consistent
coping style over three different ...
Manipulating the salience of stimulus & response features in the spatial precuing task
(1998)
Reeve, Proctor, Weeks and Dornier (1992) demonstrated that the
Gestalt grouping principles could be used to influence performance
in the four-choice spatial-precuing task by enhancing the
organizational features of the ...
Effect of feedback and motivational orientations on intrinsic motivations
(1998)
The purpose of the study was to investigate how dispositional motivational
orientations effect the perception of external rewards and the resulting effect on
intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation was assessed with ...
Mechanisms of exercise hematuria
(1993)
The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of hematuria in
a group of otherwise healthy male runners aged 23 to 54 years (n = 10), and
to compare the occurrence of hematuria under four different ...
Implication of introducing body checking in ice hockey at different ages
(1997)
The main purpose of this research was to compare the rate of body checking injuries between two Provinces that introduce body checking at different ages (age 12 versus 14). Three teams from Ontario (body checking introduced ...
Effect of blocked and random practice schedule variations on acquisition and retention of a pattern drawing task
(1998)
The contextual interference (CI) effect refers to the phenomenon that practice
organised according to a random schedule appears to negatively affect acquisition, while
retention performance is facilitated. Previous ...
Plasma ammonia and lactate response to anaerobic exercise, and their relationship to muscle fiber type
(1991)
The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in the
concentrations of plasma ammonia and lactate to an anaerobic
exercise response, lasting 90 seconds (s) in duration. The
secondary purpose was to plot this ...
Effect of two interval training programs on lactate threshold, ventilatory threshold and oxygen kinetics at the onset of exercise in females
(1991)
The primary purpose of the present study was to measure the
effects of two different forms of high intensity aerobic interval
training. These modes were a) training at a 1:1 work/rest ratio,
using 30 seconds work and ...
Effect of seasonal training on selected physical and physiological variables of junior male alpine ski racers
(1990)
The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to investigate
the effect of seasonal training on anthropometry, muscular
strength and power, motor ability, flexibility, aerobic power,
and anaerobic power and capacity, 2) ...
Qualitative analysis of the final form exams of the skill awards program from Alpine Canada
(1990)
In 1987, Alpine Canada introduced a skill development program
for skiers aged 7 to 15 years of age who were enrolled in one of
Canada's entry level racing programs. One of the objectives of
the program is to raise the ...