CONTEXT When certified athletic trainers (ATCs) enter a workplace, their potential for professional effectiveness is affected by a number of factors, including the individual's ability to put acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes into practice. This ability may be influenced by the preconceived attitudes and expectations of athletes, athletes' parents, athletic directors, physical therapist...

The aim of this study was to identify the importance assigned by futsal coaches with different education levels to the sports performance factors (technical, tactical, physical and psychological) and to the training contents. The sample was divided into three groups (novice: n=35, intermediate: n=42; and elite coaches: n=15) depending on the degree of specific education, coaching experience and...

Within this paper we propose a need to better understand what is meant by person-centred approach coaching and in particular, consider the intention that drives coach behaviours. Much of extant literature focuses on pedagogical models theories learning. Without detracting from important body work, suggest holistic requires greater focus coaches’ inter- intra-personal knowledge. In paper, video ...

BACKGROUND The issue of the expectations of elite athletes, their coaches and non-medically qualified athlete support staff of consultations with sports physicians has not been previously dealt with in the sports medicine literature. As fulfillment of expectations of the content of a consultation may influence patient's satisfaction and clinical outcome, it is important to assess the expectatio...

INTRODUCTION The idea that early sport success can be detrimental for long-term sport performance is still under debate. Therefore, the aims of this study were to examine the career trajectories of Italian high and long jumpers to provide a better understanding of performance development in jumping events. METHODS The official long-jump and high-jump rankings of the Italian Track and Field Fe...

S Schema Theory (1975) predicts that successful motor skill learning and performance are largely determined by the amount of movement variability the performer experiences during practice. This prediction has been consistently validated through a vast amount of research. Within a training environment, practice variability can be integrated by creating variation within the movements of an action...

An interdisciplinary framework allowed psychological and sociological approaches to be combined to examine coaches’ working conditions, specifically to examine the structural aspects and social values within the sport organisations as well as the implications for individual aspects. Ten participants from two sport organisations took part in the study. They were eight women performance coaches a...

the aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of perfectionism, stress and burnout in male and female swimming coaches. for this purpose, 154 coaches (85 men with the mean age of 30.52±5.26 years and 7.69±4.96 years of coaching experience and 69 females with the mean age of 28.82±5.16 years old and 4.46±6.40 years of coaching experience) were selected. for data collection, four q...