Browsing by Subject "Collegiate athletes"

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    Comparing Linear and Undulating Periodization
    (2011) Bauman, Matt; Hyman, Randy
    Strength and conditioning coaches have many decisions to make when designing resistance training programs. Choices about which exercises to use, the intensities at which they are performed, and the total volume that is lifted are all decisions that need to be made when designing resistance training programs. Depending on which form of periodization that is used, these choices will vary from program to program. The purpose of this study was to compare different types of periodization for programming resistance training in collegiate athletes. The research also explored whether training experience played a role in strength gains among both methods. The two methods evaluated were linear and undulating periodization. The study found that while both forms of periodization showed increases in strength, the individuals using undulating periodization yielded better results overall regardless of what the training experience was. The results of this study will help strength and conditioning professionals to be better informed when deciding which form of periodization they will use when designing programs for their athletes or clients.
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    Diet quality and the psychological response to sport injury
    (2023-05) Hemme, Taylor
    Nutritional psychology, the study of the relationship between diet and mental health, is an emerging field, as is the literature on sport injury psychology, however there is little research in the field associating the two together. It is notable that both fields evidence similar psychological symptomatology in response to sport injury and poor nutrition, such as sadness, anxiety, and cognitive performance difficulties (Rollo et al., 2020; Rucklidge & Kaplan, 2020). The purpose of this thesis was to explore what relationship exists between diet quality and the psychological response to sport injury by studying collegiate athletes, a population known to be vulnerable to both frequent sport injury and uniquely poor diet quality. An electronic, anonymous survey was completed by 48 currently or recently injured NCAA Division III collegiate athletes to collect data on self-reported psychological responses to sport injury and diet quality. A combination of correlational and thematic analyses on diet quality, fear/avoidance, re-injury anxiety, perceived disablement related to well-being, and general psychological and emotional responses to sport injury explored potential relationship between the fields. Correlational analyses between diet quality and fear/avoidance, re-injury anxiety, perceived disablement, and general psychological responses to sport injury showed no significant relationships. The negative correlations tended toward the expected direction associating poorer diet quality with greater negative psychological responses to sport injury, with respect to anxiety-related concerns. Thematic analysis revealed re-injury anxiety, uneasiness and stress, athletic identify concerns, disappointment, and frustration as key and common emotional responses to sport injury. Implications for future research include study designs exploring relationships between diet quality and psychological response to sport injury include using intact measures focusing on specific psychological constructs such as anxiety, assessing only currently injured athletes, and selecting specific sport cultures such as aesthetic or combat sports. These approaches may ultimately yield results about specific areas in which diet quality relates to recovery from sport injuries that could lead to more holistic treatment outcomes for collegiate athletes.
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    Incidence of Lower Extremity Injuries in Correlation with Limb Dominance in University of Minnesota Duluth Varsity Athletes
    (2016) Klinkner, Gretchen
    Research thus far has struggled to determine a relationship between limb dominance and injury incidence because there are many risk factors that may contribute to the injury of an athlete. This study aims to investigate the correlation between lower limb dominance and the incidence of lower extremity injury among NCAA Division I and II collegiate athletes of the University at Minnesota Duluth. In order to conduct this quantitative, non-experimental, correlational research study, a survey will be administered to the sample population via the use of the online survey software and insight platform, Qualtrics. Participants will be selected through convenience and purposeful-criterion sampling of NCAA Division I and II collegiate athletes at the University of Minnesota Duluth.