Sport & PerformanceJul 3, 2022
Mental Health in Athletes: Where Are the Treatment Studies?
In recent years, athletes’ mental health has gained interest among researchers, sport practitioners, and the media. However ...
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Sport & PerformanceApr 12, 2022
‘That time of the month’ … for the biggest event of your career! Perception of menstrual cycle on performance of Australian athletes training for the 2020 Olympic and ...
Objective This study explored the perceived effect of the menstrual cycle (MC) on the performance of Australian female athletes ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 31, 2022
Pushing for change: a qualitative study of the experiences of elite athletes during pregnancy
Correspondence to Dr Margie H Davenport, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 8, 2022
Psychological Burnout and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The workplace has changed considerably in the last two years. One particular feature is that the boundaries between work and home ...
Sport & PerformanceNov 4, 2021
How to Prevent and Relieve Endurance-Sport Burnout
As a rule, endurance-sport athletes (ESAs), whether running, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, cross-country skiers, mountain ...
Sport & PerformanceMay 5, 2021
Exploring Sport and Exercise Psychology
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Sport & PerformanceOct 29, 2020
Editorial: Performance Analysis in Sport
Performance analysis is a sub-discipline of Sport Science research (Borms, 2008) that has attained great interest for many ...
Sport & PerformanceOct 29, 2020
Performance Analysis in Sport
One of the most prominent areas within Sport Science in the last decade has been performance analysis. This area is attaining ...
Sport & PerformanceSep 24, 2020
Televising school sport could put too much focus on performance, a price too high for young athletes
A new deal to televise and live stream more secondary school sports in New Zealand has attracted significant attention and debate.
Sport & PerformanceJun 15, 2020
Developing and training mental toughness in sport: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and pre-test and post-test experiments
Data sources Journal articles, conference papers and doctoral theses indexed in Embase, Scopus, PubMed and SPORTDiscus from ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 1, 2020
Welsh Institute of Performance Science
The Welsh Institute of Performance Science (WIPS) is led by Swansea University in a collaboration with academic partners ...
Sport & PerformanceDec 3, 2018
Elite and Professional Sport
Our research work has impacted policy, practice and improved performance throughout the elite pathway and at the very highest level.
Sport & PerformanceJan 18, 2018
Caffeine’s sport performance advantage for infrequent tea and coffee drinkers
Sports scientists have found that the performance enhancing benefits of caffeine are more apparent in athletes who do not drink ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 28, 2017
Music to Motivate Exercise
I have been spinning now for almost a year. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it when I first started—after all, it simply involves ...
Sport & PerformanceApr 12, 2017
The game must go on, says sport psychologist
A day after the Borussia Dortmund attack, players are back on the pitch. In a DW interview, sport psychologist Jens Kleinert ...
Sport & PerformanceJan 1, 2017
Sports Psychology: Mind and Body
Over the years, an increasing number of students have asked me about becoming a sports psychologist. Students understand that our ...
Sport & PerformanceOct 3, 2016
Sex before sport doesn't negatively impact performance
Over the course of the Rio Olympics, 450,000 condoms were distributed around the athlete's village. This may be surprising ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 18, 2016
How Caffeine Improves Exercise Performance
Caffeine is a powerful substance that can improve both your physical and mental performance. The U.S. Special Forces even use it ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 14, 2015
Why it is necessary to regulate doping in sports
“The steroid era was a black eye for [Major League Baseball] on one hand, a saviour on the other […] From 1995 to 2001, the ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 5, 2015
The focus on mental health at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games
Three-time Paralympic gold medalist Theo Gmur of Switzerland knows first-hand how the highs and lows of elite competition ...
Sport & PerformanceSep 13, 2013
Who's a "Sport Psychologist?"
• Jimmy, age 15, is a club swimmer. He’s strong and smooth during practice. Put him in competition, though, and everything ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 17, 2012
Performance enhancement: Superhuman athletes
Enhancements such as doping are illegal in sport — but if all restrictions were lifted, science could push human performance to ...
Sport & PerformanceOct 10, 2011
Hardy, L. (1990). A catastrophe model of anxiety and performance. In J. G. Jones, & L. Hardy (Eds.), Stress and performance in sport (pp. 81-106). Chichester: Wiley.
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to examine moderating effects of self-confidence and sport self-efficacy on the relationship ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 2, 2009
Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport
In 490 BC, the Persian Army landed on the plain of Marathon, 25 miles from Athens. The Athenians sent a messenger named ...