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Retracing the steps towards professional football: practice engagement characteristics and performance attainment among Norwegian elite youth and senior players
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)
The overall purpose of this thesis is to identify characteristics that may explain why some players manage to progress to professional football while others do not. Specifically, I focused in this thesis on practice ...
Towards a better understanding of the dynamics of sports coaching at the youth level: the coach's perspective: a study of the youth football coaches participating in the Norwegian arm of the Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity (PAPA) project
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)
Background: This doctoral thesis was based on the Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity (PAPA) project (Duda et al., 2013). Specifically, this doctoral thesis focused on the Norwegian arm, thereby aiming to acquire detailed ...
Legitimation processes of sport organizations: the case of Norwegian youth sport policy and the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)
Introduction: The Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sport’s (NIF) main argument for hosting the 2016 Lillehammer Youth Olympic Games (hereafter referred to as Lillehammer 2016) was the alleged positive ...
Venner på tur: naturguiding som relasjonell kunnskap
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)
Avhandlingens tema er naturguiding. Temaets aktualitet relateres til det naturbaserte reiselivet i Norge, der vekst og internasjonal konkurranse har bidratt til å skjerpe kravene til kunnskap om helse, miljø og sikkerhet ...
Sedentary behaviour in young people: assessment methods and predictors
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT
Introduction: Both children and adolescent spend a lot of their awake time sedentary, and studies have shown that sedentary behaviour may be detrimental to health. Several studies have examined correlates ...
Effects of an acute bout of low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction: -with special reference to muscle damage, hypertrophic signaling and satellite cells
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)
Main findings:
Blood flow restriction reduces muscle endurance at low exercise loads (20-40% of
1RM) but not necessarily at moderate to higher loads (>50% of 1RM) in the knee
extension exercise. The intramuscular pressures ...
'Sport for all' in new settings: A study of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports' Sport for All project in Tanzania in the 1980s and Zimbabwe in the 1990[s]
(Doctoral thesis, 2013)
This study is an examination of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports’ (NIF) Sport for
Development and Peace (SDP) engagement in Tanzania and Zimbabwe from its inception in
the early 1980s until 2000. The main research ...
Injuries in female youth football : prevention, performance and risk factors
(Doctoral thesis, 2008)
Female football has experienced an enormous increase in popularity and in the number of active players worldwide. Previous research in female football has shown that the overall injury rate for
female players is nearly ...
Exercise-induced muscle damage in humans : heat shock proteins and inflammation in recovery, regeneration and adaptation
(Doctoral thesis, 2009)
Paper I: Paulsen G, Crameri R, Benestad HB, Fjeld JG, Mørkrid L, Hallén J, Raastad T. Time
course of leukocyte accumulation in human muscle after eccentric exercise.
Med.Sci.Sports Exerc. 2009: In press
Perception of and coping with organizational and media stress in elite sport: does the coach matter?
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)
Grounded within the motivational framework of Achievement Goal Theory (AGT)
and the transactional stress perspective, the purpose of the present dissertation was to
investigate how elite athletes perceive and cope with ...