This study aimed at assessing the efficacy of a physical activity intervention on a group of older elderly individuals living in residential care facilities, in terms of the functionality of their upper limbs, hands, and fingers. It also aimed at determining if the coaches’ level of self-efficacy can contribute to the efficacy of the physical activity program. The project involved 44 institutio...

This study addressed geographical uniqueness in relation to elite coaching. The study explores the complexities associated to coaching in northern Canadian communities, and how unique geographical surroundings can affect coaching success. The views of fourteen National and International elite coaches from different northern Canadian communities are included within the study. The respondents wer...

BACKGROUND Do coaches' leadership styles affect injury rates and the availability of players in professional football? Certain types of leadership behaviour may cause stress and have a negative impact on players' health and well-being. AIM To investigate the transformational leadership styles of head coaches in elite men's football and to evaluate the correlation between leadership styles, in...

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...

the aim of this study was to evaluate sport coaches' practical obligation towards their legal responsibilities from urmia athletes' viewpoints. the research method was descriptive–survey carried out as a field. 384 athletes of urmia city were randomly selected. a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data and its reliability was evaluated by test–retest method (coefficient...

BACKGROUND It is not uncommon for chiropractors to be associated with sports teams for injury prevention, treatment, or performance enhancement. There is increasing acceptance of the importance of sports psychology in the overall management of athletes. Recent findings indicate mental hardiness can be determined reliably using specific self-assessment questionnaires. This study set out to inves...

Disseminating lower-limb injury-prevention exercise programs (LL-IPEPs) with strategies that effectively reach coaches across sporting environments is a way of preventing lower-limb injuries (LLIs) and ensuring safe and sustainable sport participation. The aim of this study was to explore community-Australian Football (community-AF) coaches' perspectives on the strategies they believed would en...

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...

Personal informatics applications and visualizations are increasingly available for amateur endurance athletes to record and monitor their performance and training. This information can be valuable for self-coached athletes or coaches of amateur athletes who tailor training programs based on this data. Despite this, it is not clear if the information provided by such tools map to the real needs...

A key challenge for sports coaches is to provide performers with learning environments that result in sustainable motivation. In this paper, we will demonstrate that programmes based around the principles of Nonlinear Pedagogy can support the three basic psychological needs that underpin self-determined motivation. Coaches can therefore ensure that practice sessions provide for intrinsic motiva...