BACKGROUND Weight reduction cycles are used by weight classed athletes in Taekwondo to make a weight category. Tension, dizziness, headaches, and confusion have been associated with rapid weight loss (RWL). There is a lack of research in weight cycling and its benefits among Taekwondo athletes. PURPOSE To investigate the rate of weight cycling in Junior Taekwondo athletes and its effect on pe...

A fatal rupture of an hepatic tumour occurred in an athlete who had been taking anabolic steroids for several years as an aid to body building. The case illustrates the hazards of non-therapeutic androgen administration, and emphasises the need for athletes to be made clear of the disturbances to gonadal function, liver structure and function, and the threat to life.

OBJECTIVE This study quantified professional athletes' endorsement of food and beverages, evaluated the nutritional quality of endorsed products, and determined the number of television commercial exposures of athlete-endorsement commercials for children, adolescents, and adults. METHODS One hundred professional athletes were selected on the basis of Bloomberg Businessweek's 2010 Power 100 ra...

The general objective of the current study was to explore the experiences of elite level athletes who reported being peer mentored by other athletes during their sporting careers. The primary purpose was to identify the mentoring functions provided by athlete mentors, while the secondary purpose was to examine the outcomes related to peer mentored athletes’ (i.e., protégés) mentoring experience...

Purpose This study aimed to revise and examine the reliability validity of Chinese version Athens Insomnia Scale for Non-clinical Application (AIS-NCA) among athletes. Additionally, tested scale in non-athlete individuals with similar sleep management practices further analyze its cultural specificity athletes make preliminary inferences about applicability other populations. Methods Four hundr...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Typus Melancholicus (TM) personality can be used to explain some individual differences related to the degree of athlete burnout and the features of its process, based on a comparison between TM and non-TM groups. For this purpose, we conducted a questionnaire investigation administered to Japanese university athletes using the Depression-rel...

The main purpose of the present study was to calculate the probability-based on a Bayesian approach-to win a medal in the Olympic Games given the athlete is seeded and to verify if the number one ranked athlete has any advantage compared to other seeded athletes concerning his/her chances to be Olympic champion. For this, data from athletes who took part in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic ...

BACKGROUND To describe injury and illness incidence from the US Youth Olympic Team during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). METHODS Electronic health records of Team USA athletes registered for the YOG were reviewed for patient encounters during the 2014 YOG. Medical encounters were defined as all medical services provided by a healthcare provider including evaluation, treatment and prophyl...

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between forms of passion (harmonious and obsessive; Vallerand et al., 2003) and athlete burnout, and whether these relationships are mediated by self-determined motivation. The proposed model posited that because harmonious passion originates from an authentic self, it will be positively associated with self-determined regulat...