Sportolás elektronikus monitorozással időskorban

Összefoglaló. Idősebb korban a testgyakorlás különösen fontos az izmok sorvadásának megelőzése, valamint a vérnyomás és a testsúly kontrollja céljából. Ma már egyre gyakoribb az időskorúak részvétele sportversenyeken is. Esettanulmányunk célja a késő felnőttkori, illetve időskori versenyszerű sportolás egészségi alkalmassági feltételeinek, kockázatainak és a teljesítőképesség változásainak bemutatása az elektronikus monitorozás és virtuális versenyzés korában. Esetünkben ez egy időskorú személy 16 év során (54–70 éves kor) teljesített maratoni futóversenyeinek, valamint virtuális evezőversenyek részvételi és felkészülési adatainak elemzésével valósul meg. Esetünk illusztrálja, hogy az észszerű túlterhelés elve alapján az izmok adaptációja akkor következik be, amikor az edzés terhelése meghaladja az addig már elért terhelési szintet. A sportóra használata az elektronikus pulzusszám és a teljesítmény monitorozásával nemcsak a versenyek és edzések alatt a pulzusszám céltartományban tartására, de hosszabb távú tendenciák felismerésére is hasznosnak bizonyult. Az egészségi állapotnak megfelelő (sportág és intenzitás) időskori testgyakorlás és sportversenyen való részvétel nemcsak az erőnlét megtartását tűzheti ki célul, hanem értékes erőnlétfejlesztést is. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(51): 2061–2066. Summary. With advancing age, exercise becomes particularly important to prevent muscle atrophy and to control blood pressure and weight. Today, participation of aging people in athletic competitions is increasingly common. The aim of our case study is to explore and illustrate the health conditions, development and risk factors of competitive sporting activities of late adult and elderly athletes in the age of electronic monitoring and virtual racing. We processed the preparation and participation data of a total of 16 years of marathon races as well as rowing machine races of an elderly male person (age 54–70). Using a sports watch with electronic heart rate and performance monitoring has proved useful not only for keeping the heart rate in target range, but also for assessing trends in the long run. Our case underscores the value of reasonable overload with advancing age; beneficial muscle adaptation occurs when the workload of an exercise exceeds the previously reached level. Gradual exercise of older adults and participation in athletic competitions can not only maintain fitness but also develop valuable additional strength. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(51): 2061–2066.

Behavioral Disorders in Physically Challenged Individual Sports Youth Athletes

The researchers aimed at identifying the effect of behavioral disorders in physically challenged individual sports athletes and the level of its effect on their life. The researchers used the descriptive method on (80) physically challenged individual sport athletes. The researchers designed a scale for behavioral disorders for physically challenged that consisted of four fields. The data was collected and treated to conclude that most athletes have mild behavioral disorders. In addition to that, the researchers concluded that athletic competitions and disability are major reasons for these disorders.

Fooled Again and Again

Patterns are inevitable and we should not be surprised by them. Streaks, clusters, and correlations are the norm, not the exception. In a large number of coin flips, there are likely to be coincidental clusters of heads and tails. In nationwide data on cancer, crime, or test scores, there are likely to be flukey clusters. When the data are separated into smaller geographic units like cities, the most extreme results are likely to be found in the smallest cities. In athletic competitions between well-matched teams, the outcome of a small number of games is almost meaningless. Our challenge is to overcome our inherited inclination to think that all patterns are meaningful; for example, thinking that clustering in large data sets or differences among small data sets must be something real that needs to be explained. Often, it is just meaningless happenstance.

Campaign Agones: Towards a Classification of Greek Athletic Competitions

At several occasions during his campaigns, Alexander the Great staged gymnic, hippic and musical competitions. Until now scholars have assumed that the king founded new festivals, but the ancient evidence makes it quite clear that it were singular, non-recurrent events. Competitions like that, for which I suggest the term “campaign agones”, are also known from other Greek armies. “Campaign agones” should be added to the well-known categories (competitions at recurrent festivals, funeral contests, gymnasium agones) as a distinct, although less important, category in the Greek agonistic world.

The 1924 Empire Cruise and the Imagining of an Imperial Community

This article examines the cultural contours of the Royal Navy's postwar ‘Empire Cruise’. In late 1923, the British government dispatched a ‘Special Service Squadron’ of powerful battlecruisers on a massive public relations tour. But the popular response to this carefully orchestrated propaganda stunt varied widely. Settler populations in the Dominions often embraced the navy as a ‘bond of empire’ that reconciled Britishness with their own emerging national identities. They celebrated the navy as evidence of a shared maritime heritage handed down over the course of centuries. Meanwhile, non-white populations often responded in ways that ran counter to the intentions of the event organizers. Zulu villages in Natal hosted athletic competitions and indigenous women in Fiji organized a dance for the visiting Jack Tars – unsanctioned gatherings that offered alternative points of contact to the existing arrangements. In other locations, anti-colonial nationalists took advantage of the publicity surrounding the navy to mobilise against colonial policies. Ultimately the appearance of the navy in the far-flung ports of the empire stimulated widespread public debates about race, identity, and colonialism, and challenged the intended narrative of imperial unity.

THE VOTIVE OF AIGLATAS, SPARTAN RUNNER. OLD EVIDENCE, NEW KNOWLEDGE

Much of what we know about ancient Sparta is based upon inscriptions. Extant inscribed objects are often left idle in storerooms, treated summarily, with modern scholars reliant upon dated epigraphical publications which focus mainly only on the texts of the inscriptions. However, the study of objects bearing inscribed texts together with their inscriptions can yield information that challenges what we suppose we know about ancient Sparta.This article analyses a Late Archaic inscribed stele from Sparta, bearing a dedication to Karneios by Aiglatas for his athletic victories. The stele has been used as evidence for two scholarly claims: that athletic competitions were performed at the Karneia festival, and that Apollo Karneios was represented with ram's horns.Adopting a holistic approach and a comparative methodology, the present study shows that these two modern claims are without foundation. By means of autopsy and comparative analysis, this work proposes a new reading of the inscription and a novel interpretation of Aiglatas’ dedication in its cultural context. In addition, this study does not confirm the existence of gymnastic contests at the Karneia, as claimed by earlier scholars; it argues instead that a torch race may have taken place before sacrifices at the festival. Finally, it is argued that there is no evidence that Apollo Karneios was represented with the ram's horns, which opens up new possibilities for understanding the deity and his religious value within Spartan society.