Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Medicine and Health Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Sports Sciences

Masters Theses

2009

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences

An Examination Of The Deliberate Practice Framework In Quad Rugby, Rachel Lynn Boxell Aug 2009

An Examination Of The Deliberate Practice Framework In Quad Rugby, Rachel Lynn Boxell

Masters Theses

Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer (1993) forwarded a general framework to account for the characteristics and developmental experiences of individuals who have acquired exceptional performance in any domain. This framework proposed that experts undergo an extensive acquisition period involving the accumulation of thousands of hours of deliberate practice while overcoming various constraints that serve as functional barriers to the achievement of expertise. The purpose of this study was to examine expert disability-sport athletes to determine how well their experiences and characteristics were captured by Ericsson et al.’s (1993) framework. In Part I, quad rugby players recalled the amount of time spent …


Effect Of Load Reductions Over Consecutive Sets On Repetition Performance, Maureen Khairallah Jan 2009

Effect Of Load Reductions Over Consecutive Sets On Repetition Performance, Maureen Khairallah

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.