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“Is it fun and does it enhance my performance?” – Key implementation considerations for injury prevention programs in youth handball
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objectives: We aimed to determine the use of injury prevention exercises and injury prevention exercise programs in Danish youth handball and investigate coach and player experiences, beliefs and attitudes of injury and ... -
Is mindfulness a part of the mental capacity in high-level Norwegian individual sport athletes?: An interview study about high-level ultra-distance triathlon athletes self-regulation during training and competition
(Master thesis, 2013)The difference between success and failure has become increasingly smaller in sport (Birrer & Morgan, 2010). While sport psychology relied mainly on “second wave” cognitive-behavioural interventions for the last four ... -
Is physical activity a potential preventive factor for vascular dementia? A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-05)Background: Physical exercise has several beneficial effects, including reduced risk for Alzheimer's disease. Although several studies of potential risk factors for vascular dementia (VaD) exist, including physical activity, ... -
Is Physical Activity Good or Bad for the Female Pelvic Floor? A Narrative Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)More women participate in sports than ever before and the proportion of women athletes at the Olympic Games is nearly 50%. The pelvic floor in women may be the only area of the body where the positive effect of physical ... -
Is physical exercise and dietary therapy a feasible alternative to cognitive behavior therapy in treatment of eating disorders? A randomized controlled trial of two group therapies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective: To compare effects of physical exercise and dietary therapy (PED‐t) to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treatment of bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge‐eating disorder (BED). Method: The active sample ... -
Is postural sway in a one-leg static balance task a determinant for frontal-plane knee joint loads and excursions in a vertical drop-jump?
(Master thesis, 2011)Background: Team handball and soccer world have a high incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. This injury has severe consequences such as long term rehabilitation, sport disability and osteoarthritis. ... -
Is Rating of Perceived Exertion a Valuable Tool for Monitoring Exercise Intensity During Steady-State Conditions in Elite Endurance Athletes?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose: Rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a widely used tool to assess subjective perception of effort during exercise. The authors investigated between-subject variation and effect of exercise mode and sex on Borg ... -
Is sitting time a strong predictor of weight gain?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-12-09)The current review aimed to examine the evidence on prospective associations between sedentary behavior (i.e., sitting time) and weight gain. Prospective studies published between January 2010 and August 2012 were identified ... -
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities?: A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Scholars have increasingly called for the need to problematise and critically examine sport policy for integration/inclusion. This article aims to contribute to this ongoing debate by presenting a Foucauldian-inspired ... -
Is T2 mapping reliable in evaluation of native and repair cartilage tissue of the knee?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose: To evaluate the effect of imaging plane and experience of observers on the reliability of T2 mapping of native and repair cartilage tissue of the knee. Methods: Fifteen consecutive patients from two randomised ... -
Is the Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) Associated with Risk of Time-Loss Injury in Professional Team Sports? A Systematic Review of Methodology, Variables and Injury Risk in Practical Situations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: The acute: chronic workload ratio (ACWR) is an index of the acute workload relative to the cumulative chronic workloads. The monitoring of physical workloads using the ACWR has emerged and been hypothesized as ... -
Is the balance between skeletal muscular metabolic capacity and oxygen supply capacity the same in endurance trained and untrained subjects?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-12-02)We attempted to test whether the balance between muscular metabolic capacity and oxygen supply capacity in endurance-trained athletes (ET) differs from that in a control group of normal physically active subjects by using ... -
Is the time right for quantitative public health guidelines on sitting? A narrative review of sedentary behaviour research paradigms and findings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Sedentary behaviour (SB) has been proposed as an ‘independent’ risk factor for chronic disease risk, attracting much research and media attention. Many countries have included generic, non-quantitative reductions in SB in ... -
Is there a meaningful relationship between physical and technical performance?: a study on international women's team handball matches
(Master thesis, 2017)Team Handball is one of the team sports with the highest speed of play and is characterized by repeated jumps, sprints, changes of direction, body contacts and specific technical movement patterns in response to different ... -
Is there an association between total physical activity level and VO2max among fitness club members?: A cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Since cardiorespiratory fitness is an important predictor for all-cause mortality, it is of interest to know if meeting the physical activity (PA) recommendations is associated with higher levels of maximal ... -
Is there an association between total physical activity level and VO2max among fitness club members?: A prospective one-year follow-up study
(Master thesis, 2020)BACKGROUND: Since Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is an important predictor for allcause mortality, it is vital to know if meeting the global physical activity (PA) recommendations of 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Is vigorous-intensity physical activity required for improving bone mass in adolescence?: Findings from a Brazilian birth cohort
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Summary: The association between moderate and vigorous physical activity throughout adolescence and areal bone density (aBMD) at 18 years of age was evaluated. Vigorous-intensity physical activity at 11, 15, and 18 years ... -
Ischemic strength training: a low-load alternative to heavy resistance exercise?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-05-04)Strength training with low loads in combination with vascular occlusion has been proposed as an alternative to heavy resistance exercise in the rehabilitation setting, especially when high forces acting upon the musculo-skeletal ... -
Ishockey - med eller uten sikkerhet?: hvordan oppfatter ishockeyspillere valget mellom heldekkende ansiktsbeskyttelse og visir?
(Master thesis, 2015-10-22)Det er ingen tvil om at ishockey er tøff idrett. Spillet går fort, køller heves høyt, og pucken flyr i alle retninger. I stadige møter med farer for skader, polstrer spillerne seg med beskyttelse. Med regelen som gir enhver ... -
Isokinetic resistance training combined with eccentric overload improves athletic performance and induces muscle hypertrophy in young ice hockey players
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objectives: To determine the combined effects of slow isokinetic resistance training and eccentric overload and compare it to traditional resistance training on strength, power, body composition and muscle hypertrophy in ...