When you practice and compete in sport, there are other people involved who support some way: coaches, parents, friends, opponents. These can influence how feel about playing through their actions, reactions, emotional expressions, language. Our motivation sport is not as simple “more-v-less,” but rather we experience a whole range of motivating/demotivating factors at the same time. Some motiv...

Researchers have investigated how coaches, from the recreational to the elite level of coaching, learn to coach. Many different learning situations have been identified in the research, yet the question remains: How is it that one coach’s learning path emphasizes certain learning situations as key, and yet another coach’s learning path emphasizes quite different situations? Fifteen Canadian Oly...

Objectives: Epidemics create a lot of social and behavioral changes in all areas, sport is no exception. The aim of this study is understanding lived experience of athletic older adults in Tehran from COVID-19 pandemic. Methods and Materials: The research was carried out by the qualitative method and through a phenomenological approach. The participants were 16 Athletic older adults in Tehran ...

the aim of this paper was to explain strange captivation of physical education professors and coaches to their work in the form of workaholism. statistical population of this research included professors of physical education faculties and tehran sport coaches and a sample was selected randomly. a questionnaire was used to collect the data. the research methodology was survey based on structura...

gymnastics as a basic sport needs learning basic skills and abilities such as strength, speed, flexibility and agility. team coaches and supervisors always try to evaluate and measure these skills using designed tests in different time periods. identifying the success of a gymnast based on these results needs tremendous experience. accordingly this paper attempted to localize the standard test ...

Objectives: Two studies employed the trans-contextual model (TCM) to understand the relationships between sport motivation, treatment motivation, and autonomy support. Study 1 tested TCM among recreational athletes, while Study 2 examined the effects of causality orientations and autonomy support from coaches in the TCM among professional athletes. Methods: In Study 1, recreational athletes (N ...