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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Barnard, J.G. (Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2013)Physical training (PT) is an integral part of developing operational fitness. The objective of the study was to compare the physical fitness outcomes of two groups of young South African military recruits completing 12 ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Tsotetsi, A.; Soma, Prashilla; Govender, Catherine; Henning, E.; Naicker, Lee-Anne; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Wood, Paola Silvia; Terblanche, E. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Research has shown that a strong correlation exists between vision and performance. In the sporting environment, it is believed that athletes perform better than non-athletes and males perform better than females. In this ...
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Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Pepper, Michael Sean; Du Toit, Peet J.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Ker, James A.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Grobbelaar, C.W. (Craig); Nolte, Kim; Fletcher, F.; Grant, T.C. (Thelani) (Medpharm Publications, 2014)BACKGROUND : Fitness is defined in the health context as a state of good health or physical condition, primarily as a result of exercise and proper nutrition. Conventional methods of measuring fitness are expensive, time ...
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Nolte, Kim; Steyn, B.J.M. (Barend Johannes Marthinus); Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Fletcher, Lizelle (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014)OBJECTIVE. To determine the attitudes, beliefs and knowledge of talented young athletes residing in Gauteng regarding prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) and anti-doping rules and regulations. METHODS. This was ...
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Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Billson, John Henry (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Thirty-two (N= 32) full-time working subjects between the ages of 20 and 55 years participated in a 12-week exercise intervention study. Subjects were randomly divided into a control group receiving conservative exercises ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Loots, J.M.; Grimbeek, J. (Jackie) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)
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Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Billson, John Henry; Wood, Paola Silvia; Du Toit, Peet J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-03)Low back pain (LBP) has become one of the most influential musculoskeletal diseases of modern society. Exercise has been shown to be very effective in the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP). The goal of the study ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Mohamed, A.F.; Kleynhans, Michael; Jay-Du Preez, T.; Govender, Catherine; Mercier, J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2011-09)Vision is one of the most important special senses and is the primary source of external information. The role of vision in our everyday lifestyles is immense and adequate visual skills are needed for simple tasks which ...
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Lategan, Leon; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2007)The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using two different handgrip positions on the peak torque values of the elbow during flexion and extension and to establish normative concentric isokinetic values ...
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Muller, M.; Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)This study was directed at establishing the effect of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbuturate(HMB) supplementation on the body-omposition and muscle-power output of non-competitive sporting males between 19 and 24 years, who ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Joubert, Annie M.; Lunsky, J. (2007-09)Visual performance is an important factor in sport excellence. Over the past few years, aspects like hand-eye co-ordination, visual reaction time and their relation to eye exercises have been addressed frequently. Theories ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Naicker, Lee-Anne; Govender, Catherine; Jay-Du Preez, T.; Grobbelaar, C.W. (Craig); Grant, Rina; Wood, Paola Silvia; Kleynhans, Michael; Mercier, J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)The two fundamental categories of vision include visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills. Visual-motor skills encompass three essential ocular motor skills, namely focusing, eye-hand coordination and tracking. The aspects ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Neves, R. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)
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Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Audrey; Janse van Rensburg; Botha, R.P.G. (Roelf Petrus Gerhardus); Wood, Paola Silvia; Nolte, Kim; Fletcher, Lizelle; Du Toit, Peet J.; Pepper, Michael Sean; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Elsevier, 2016-12)BACKGROUND : The FitTrack Index is a web-based programme developed in South Africa and widely used by athletes to indicate their fitness. A need exists for a self-managed, noninvasive tool to evaluate and categorise ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (MedPharm Publications, 2015)BACKGROUND : Stress fractures are a common military training injury. Flexibility of muscles and joints may directly influence stress-fracture risk by way of altering the forces applied to bone. Hip external rotation and ...
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Lombard, M.; Pretorius, W.; Hall, S.; Kruger, H.; Rossouw, France; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Meyer, Helgard Pieter (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-12)Chronic pain is often associated with impaired muscle strength and limited physical activity and performance, resulting in impaired physical functioning. This study aimed to determine whether voluntary participation in a ...
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Billson, John Henry; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Ergonomics Society of South Africa (ESSA), 2014)Low back pain has become one of the most influential musculoskeletal disorders of modern society. Exercise has been shown to be very effective in the treatment of chronic low back pain. The goal of the study was to test ...
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Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Dressler, Annemarie; Botha, Mariske (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Incidence of shoulder injuries have been widely reported for work-related musculoskeletal pain in the upper extremities, but there is a limited amount of research and statistics available that reports on the incidence of ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Henning, E.; Broodryk, T.; Fourie, Jacques; Grant, Rina; Nolte, Kim; Crafford, Dalene; Kleynhans, Michael; Terblanche, H.C.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Van Schoor, Albert-Neels; Fletcher, Lizelle; Ferreira, J. (2012-06-30)Studies have shown that visual skills can be subjected to exertion during exercise, thus implying that entrainment of vision is possible through interaction with the environment. It has been established that by simply ...
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Influence of exhaustion on metabolism and visual motor performance of professional cricket players Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); De Wet, K.B.; Van Vuuren, Bernard J.; Van Heerden, Hendrik J.; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2006-03)Please open article to read abstract
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