Protein-leucine Ingestion Activates a Regenerative Inflammo-Myogenic Transcriptome in 1 Skeletal Muscle Following Intense Endurance Exercise 2 3 David S. Rowlands, Andre R. Nelson, Frederic Raymond, Sylviane Metairon, Robert 4 Mansourian, Jim Clarke, Trent Stellingwerff, Stuart M. Phillips 5 6 School of Sport and Exercise and Institute of Food Nutrition, and Human Health, Massey University, 7 W...

Almost one half of male and female students participate in high school-sponsored athletics, and high school also is a time when classroom health promotion curricula are less effective. The Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids is a sport team-centered drug-use prevention program for male high school athletes, which has been shown to reduce alcohol and illicit drug use. Just as anabol...

Objective: currently, many researchers are evaluating the morphological parameters of athletes in order to determine morphofunctional status, which is only a small part comprehensive survey devoted, for example, assessing nutrition or sports achievements. However, primary task morphology remains search “preferred” “reference” somatotypes characteristic particular sport, since key success not mo...

Whereas nutrition has a crucial role on sport performance, it is not clear to what extent nutrition knowledge is associated with physical fitness. The aim of this study was to examine the current level of nutrition knowledge of soccer players and whether this level is associated with physical fitness. Soccer players (n = 185, aged 21.3 ± 4.9 yr, weight 72.3 ± 8.4 kg, and height 177.5 ± 6.4 cm) ...

Performing artists are athletes. Like athletes, performing artists practice and/or perform most days with little off season, play through pain, "compete" in challenging environments, and risk career-threatening injury. Athletes and the Arts is a multiorganizational initiative linking the sport athlete and musician/performing artist communities. Performing artists of all ages and genre are an un...

No previous research in squash has considered the time between shots or the proximity of the ball to a wall, which are two important variables that influence shot outcomes. The aim of this paper was to analyse shot types to determine the extent to which they are played in different court areas and a more detailed analysis to determine whether the time available had an influence on the shot sele...

From 17.09.06 to 20.09.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06381 Computer Science in Sport was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and idea...

British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activi...

Few supplements have a scientifically proven ergogenic effects of improving exercise capacity and/or physical performance in sport. The athletes require specialised nutrition, including precisely good quality supplementation, i.e. tested. Nowadays, more and use nutritional supplementation to improve their sporting both at the elite non-elite levels. In this review, substances such as β-alanine,...

Ageing of the population is one of the most important demographic facts that came to the foreground in the 21st century. Apart from social and economic problems, the elderly population is very much associated with health problem. Nutrition is an important factor in falls prevention among elderly, as weakness results from a loss of muscle mass and strength, neuromuscular impairment, immobilisati...