Browsing Research Articles (Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences) by Title

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  • Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Fowler, K.F.; Govender, Catherine; Clark, James R. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2010-09)
    Sport has become increasingly competitive and this places enormous pressure on sportsmen to perform at their absolute best. For athletes to achieve their greatest potentials, aspects of sport such as reaction time and ...
  • Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)
  • Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Engelbrecht, Adel (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2013-06)
    Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer deaths in young adults ages 20-39. According to the South African Medical Research Council, there was an estimated 801 deaths from brain cancer in South Africa in 2000. ...
  • Nolte, Kim; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-10)
    OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of a 3-month land- and waterbased exercise programme among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers. METHODS: Patients with RA Functional Class I and II (N=10) were randomly assigned to a ...
  • Van Vuuren, Bernard J.; Van Heerden, Hendrik J.; Becker, Piet J.; Zinzen, Evert; Meeusen, Romain (Springer Verlag, 2007-03)
    An analytical cross-sectional epidemiological study carried out among 109 manganese plant workers aimed to examine the prevalence and association between lower back problems (LBP) and occupational risk factors. Outcome was ...
  • Goslin, Anneliese E. (Anna Elizabeth); Sere, M.G.O.; Kluka, Darlene Ann (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-12)
    The mandate of public local government is to provide services to constituents to improve overall quality of life. Local governments are increasingly pressured to provide services that reflect value for taxpayers' money and ...
  • Goslin, Anneliese E. (Anna Elizabeth); Davies, Karl M. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2014-03)
    Customer satisfaction with the quality of sport services contributes significantly to the sustained competitiveness of sport organisations, and customer retention. This study measured the perceived service quality of the ...
  • Faria, Aurelio; Gabriel, Ronaldo; Abrantes, Joao; Wood, Paola Silvia; Moreira, Helena (Routledge, 2013-10)
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  • Malan, R.; Chapman, L.; Wood, Paola Silvia (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)
    The fitness of today's young people is reported to be at a very low level, and this is disconcerting considering that some are needed as military recruits but will not be accepted if they do not pass the military fitness ...
  • Jooste, Julius; Kruger, Ankebé; Steyn, B.J.M. (Barend Johannes Marthinus); Edwards, David John (Routledge, 2015-11)
    This article probed and contextualised the strong parallels between meditation derived mindfulness and Rogers’s humanistic person-centred (PC) approach. This was done through a conceptual and evaluative literature review ...
  • Goslin, Anneliese E. (Anna Elizabeth) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2020-12)
    The global survival and revitalization of physical education (PE) in schools have been the priority of experts and lobbyists for decades. On the African continent, especially, efforts to reawaken PE escalated in the ...
  • Mathunjwa, M.L.; Mugandani, S.C.; Ngcobo, M.; Djarova-Daniels, T.; Ivanov, S. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-12-31)
    The research was aimed at identifying the anthropometric, physical and physiological characteristics of junior Taekwondo athletes to achieve an international status. Data were collected from 25 males and 11 females aged ...
  • Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Smit, R.F. (Ruan Faure) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)
    Research studies indicate that, by determining the physiological load placed on athletes during competitions, it can aid in the development of strength and conditioning programmes, according to the specific demands placed ...
  • Borresen, Jill; Celie, Bert; Laubscher, Ria; Bac, Martin; Wood, Paola; Camacho, Tanya Chantelle de Sousa; Nolte, Kim; Schwellnus, Marianne; Basu, Debashis; Schwellnus, Martin Peter (Taylor and Francis, 2024)
    The personal health behaviours, including physical activity, of healthcare professionals influence their counselling practices as they relate to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, despite the importance of producing ...
  • Clark, James R.; Clark, Jimmy R. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)
    The purpose of this study was to describe the physical fitness of professional soccer players in South Africa and assess the difference in fitness status between different playing positions. Professional soccer players (N ...
  • Goslin, Anneliese E. (Anna Elizabeth) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2008-09)
    Gender equity in sport is regarded as a matter of consequence at global and national levels. Examining print media coverage of women’s sport is a fundamental approach to monitor the status of equity in sport. The print ...
  • Burnett, Cora; Wessels, Johanna C. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)
    The study forms part of a more comprehensive investigation that focused on profiling and determining sport consumer behaviour during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Marketing theories inform the typology of sport ...
  • Jooste, Julius; Steyn, B.J.M. (Barend Johannes Marthinus); Van den Berg, Linda; Grobbelaar, Heinrich W. (Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2014)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological skills of African youth soccer players in different playing positions. The role of psychological skills and overall team performance was also determined. The ...
  • Grobbelaar, Heinrich W.; Malan, Dawie D.J.; Steyn, B.J.M. (Barend Johannes Marthinus); Ellis, Suria M. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2011-12)
    Mood state changes are widely regarded as a symptom of athlete burnout and show potential to be used as a marker for this condition. The aim of this study was to determine whether changes in burnout scores would be accompanied ...
  • Jooste, Julius; Van Wyk, Johannes G.U.; Steyn, B.J.M. (Barend Johannes Marthinus) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2013-03)
    The purpose of this study was to compare the mental-skills differences at participatory level among three progressive levels of cricket participation recognised by the Northerns Cricket Union (NCU) in the Pretoria Gauteng ...