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 use of dietary supplements by athletes searching for the slight physiological edge over their opponents in competition is a fairly common practice. Pollen extract (PE), pure bee pollen (BP), and protein extract (PRE) preparations, extolled for their performance improvement characteristics, have recently been popularized by a number of world class athletes, their coaches, and trainers, and r...

PURPOSE/BACKGROUND Division III (D III) collegiate coaches are challenged to assess athletic readiness and condition their athletes during the preseason. However, there are few reports on off-season training habits and normative data of functional assessment tests among D III athletes. The purpose of this study was to examine off-season training habits of D III athletes and their relationships ...

Olympic athletes compete and train in diverse cold-weather environments, generally without adverse effects. However, the nature of some sports may increase the risk of cold injuries. This paper provides guidance to enable competition organisers and officials, coaches and athletes to avoid cold-weather injuries. This paper will (1) define potential cold-weather injuries during training and compe...

Over the last few decades many athletes and coaches have used altitude training in various forms to help improve an athletes performance both for competing at altitude and at sea level. The traditional approach was to move on a permanent basis to an area, which afforded an increased altitude (1,880 to 2,000 m/5,000 to 6,000ft) and adequate terrain to allow the athlete to train in their particul...

INTRODUCTION Sports clubs form a potential setting for health promotion, but the research is limited. The aim of the Health Promoting Sports Club (HPSC) study was to elucidate the current health promotion activities of youth sports clubs and coaches, and to investigate the health behaviours and health status of youth participating in sports clubs compared to non-participants. METHODS AND ANAL...

OBJECTIVES Despite documented efficacy of injury prevention programs (IPPs) to reduce sport-related lower extremity injury risk, there is evidence of a lack of widespread IPP adoption by high school coaches. This study identified factors related to non-adoption of IPPs by assessing coaches' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to prevention programs and comparing attitudes between adopte...

Earlier qualitative researchers studying athletes’ dual careers (DCs) have shown that sociocultural discourses on gender are ingrained in DC policies and practices, creating inequalities hierarchies. In this study, we aimed to extend body of research by examining how Finnish elite youth ski coaches discursively construct education their talk coaching practices. Similarly, examined coaches’ beli...

The aim of this research was to examine whether attachment relationships significant others, such as parents and/or sports coaches, enable thriving and competition performance within sport. Two studies employing cross-sectional prospective designs were carried out across different samples athletes varied skill levels sports. In Study 1, we found athletes’ their coach significantly associated wi...