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Donnie Andrews; Katelyn Zachary – Physical Educator, 2024
Vertical jump performance is vital to many sports and is predictive of power output. Both resistance exercises and plyometric exercises have been shown to increase vertical jump performance. Identifying the type of exercise that increases jump height the most may be useful to coaches and athletes worldwide. The literature has stated that both…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise, Training, College Athletics
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Gercek, Nejla; Tatar, Yasar; Uzun, Selda – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Aim: Sport activities can increase the number of motor tasks performed by children with disabilities, helping to motivate these children to sustain life-long exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of virtual and traditional golf training on balance, muscle strength, lower extremity flexibility and aerobic endurance in…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise, Children, Cerebral Palsy
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Zhanibek, Kuderiev; Zh, Beknazarov; Kasymbayeva, J.; Sh, Shonov E.; Minarbekov, D. I.; Sydykov, N.T. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, specialists in the field of Physical culture and Sports are faced with the problem of increasing interest in practicing folk national sports, based on the creation of both theoretical paradigms and a more evidence-based comprehensive practical database of research in scientific and methodological orientation. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletes, Athletics, Physical Fitness
Korkmaz, Sezgin; Uysal, Hüseyin Sahin – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
Many factors determine success in football. But the most important of these are the physical and physiological variables that determine the performance of football players. Meeting these physical and physiological needs is also based on training methods prepared following branch-specific neural, muscular, and metabolic parameters. In football, for…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Athletes, Physical Fitness
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Paula Chica, Maritza Gisella; Aguilar Morocho, Elva Katherine – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The objective of this research has been the analysis of the effectiveness of sports performance through a program, based on the assimilation of contents from a previous diagnosis. The almost-experimental design was applied like a pre- during program. Eighty-two students from Basic Education Career of UPSE have participated in this study, developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention, Athletics, College Students
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Arslan, Ersin; Ince, Gonca; Akyüz, Murat – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effects of a circuit exercise program on the physical fitness parameters of children with atypical autism spectrum condition (ASC) and typically developing (TD) children. Method: Fourteen (14) boys with atypical autism (mean age: 10.07 ± 0.25 years; weight: 24.97 ± 0.64 kg; height: 126.79 ± 1.33 cm) and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Physical Fitness, Exercise, Children
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Canan Demir Yildiz – SAGE Open, 2024
Teacher training initiatives for Physically Active Learning (PAL) are notably scarce, particularly within the realm of English Language Education and within the contexts of developing countries. This research delineates a comprehensive training program specifically tailored for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors in Türkiye, aiming to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Ospankulov, Yernar; Zhumabayeva, Aziya; Nurgaliyeva, Saniya – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
Kazakhstan's efforts to expand its physical culture have brought tremendous benefits. However, there are still unresolved issues in the teaching of physical education in our country's schools. Despite many ethnic and cultural traditions, combining learning opportunities in the classroom is ineffective. Domestic experience in sports is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Psychomotor Skills
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Gür, Yunus; Taskin, Sekus; Sahin, Emine; Taskin, Cengiz – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of life kinetic exercises on the performance of floor curling athletes. A total of 40 volunteer women, 20 in the experimental group and 20 in the control group, residing in the city center of Gaziantep, aged between 14 and 16 and doing floor curling, participated in the study. Life kinetic exercise…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Exercise, Athletes, Athletics
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Yulong Chen – Cogent Education, 2023
Life skills (LS) training programs help individuals develop their mental health and stress-related attitudes. This study aims to build a versatile physical education program (PEP) to promote LS and examine its effectiveness. The subjects were first-year Japanese university students. We conducted the LS survey in April (pre-semester) and August…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Athletics, Daily Living Skills
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Alp, Mahmut; Ozdinc, Mahmut – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This paper focuses on the effects of plyometric trainings on upper extremity anaerobic power and shotspeed in 20 volunteer male handball players, who are in the men's handball team at Süleyman Demirel University. Players were randomly divided into two groups as handball training group (HTG) and plyometric training group (PTG). While HTG continued…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training, Males, Athletes
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Lange, Eric J.; Lirgg, Cathy D.; Gorman, Dean R.; Mitts, Maryann – Physical Educator, 2021
This study investigated the effect of a skating unit on cardiovascular fitness, eyes-closed static balance, explosive power, and agility in fifth graders. During a 6-week skating unit (12 lessons), 71 students (M[subscript age] = 10.34 years, range: 10-12 years) participated during regularly scheduled physical education classes. Three classes were…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Physical Fitness, Physical Education
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Pamukcu, Bahattin Selim; Çakir, Hasan – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2021
To increase the benefits of three-dimensional exercise games, the steps to develop these games need to be effective and efficient. The purpose of this study is to determine the game development model used in the design of three-dimensional games for exercise to create effective, efficient, usable, and safe games for users. In this article, studies…
Descriptors: Exercise, Games, Game Based Learning, Program Development
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Sajedi, Heidar; Bayram, Metin; Bilgiç, Murat – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), ballistic, and static stretching exercises on the range of motion after sports injury surgery in soccer team athletes. The purpose of this research was an applied one, in terms of method was descriptive and correlational one. Therefore, in…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Exercise Physiology, Injuries
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Athletics
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