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Although soccer is one of the more researched intermittent team sports, there is a surprisingly modest amount of information available on the effects of fatigue on skill performance. The main reasons for this are due to the problems of overcoming the barriers of controlling the many variables in the field and a lack of reliable and valid skill tests. The Loughborough Intermittent Shuttle running Test (LIST) is a recently developed exercise protocol which closely simulates the demands of multiple-sprint sports such as soccer in a controlled environment. Furthermore, the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (LSPT) and Loughborough Soccer Shooting Test (LSST) were developed (and modified further as part of this thesis, Chapters 5 and 6) and found to be reliable and valid indicators of soccer skill. Therefore, one of the main aims of this thesis was to investigate the influence of 90 min of the LIST on soccer skill performance. Early researchers (e. g. Karlsson, 1969 and Saltin, 1973) reported the -benefits of maintaining a high muscle glycogen content on soccer performance and more recent investigators looked at the effect of providing carbohydrate (CHO) during exercise on work rate and soccer skill. However, many of these experiments were completed in the field setting and used poor tests of skill. Therefore, the primary aim of these series of experiments was to determine the influence of ingesting a carbohydrate-electrolyte (CHO-E) solution during the LIST on soccer skill performance. There was an 8% deterioration in LSPT performance following 90 min of intermittent high-intensity running, even with fluid ingestion (p<0.05). Furthermore, the ingestion of a CHO-E solution during exercise showed tendencies for better maintenance of skill performance towards the end of exercise. Moreover, CHO-E supplementation better maintained sprint performance and a higher relative exercise intensity during exercise (p<0.05). This is crucial in soccer perfon-nance, as players who are unable to sprint to get to the ball will be unable to perform the necessary skill. From the results of Chapters 5 and 6 it was found that the modified passing (LSPT) and goal-shooting (LSST) tests were valid and reliable tests of soccer skill. Moreover, they were found to be more repeatable when higher calibre players performed the tests. As in previous studies there was a speed-accuracy trade-off' in LSST performance i. e. subjects increased the time taken to complete each shot sequence and reduced the shot speed to maintain shooting accuracy post-LIST. There was a trend for CHO-E ingestion to maintain a better shot speed and time taken for each sequence. The ingestion of CHOE also reduced the perception of effort (p<0.05) and led to more positive feelings of affective valence during the last 30 min of the LIST. Therefore, based on these findings, it was concluded that the ingestion of CHO-E solutions over water alone should be encouraged to soccer players because of the tendency to better maintain soccer skill and the associated physiological, biochemical and psychological benefits during such exercise.

This thesis examines the emergence of Olympic sport aid policy in the early phase of its establishment in 1961 with the founding of the Commission For International Olympic Aid (CIOA) and the Olympic Solidarity (OS) in the early 1970s. The study aims to explore the global process of cultural flows of Olympism and modern sport, and the international relations involved in constructing, modifying or resisting the Olympic 'message'. A tentative conceptualisation of 'aid donors' (core and semi-periphery) and the 'aid recipients' (peripheral states) is outlined in relation to the global sport interaction between nation states. At the macro level, it is clear that the bi-political order of the Cold War, the decolonisation process, and the development aid projects provided to the newly independent countries in Africa and Asia influenced agents' approaches in forming the sport aid policy and the promotion of Olympic institutions. At the meso level, the IOC relations with UNESCO, IFs, regional games and National Olympic Committees and the emergence of hyper nationalism, commercialism and professionalism impinge on the creation of the global sport aid programme that emphasises the hegemony of the Olympic movement. The research subscribes to critical realism as its ontological and epistemological base and the principal method employed to investigate is a form of qualitative content analysis using a protocol drawn from ethnographic content analysis. Inductive and deductive techniques were utilised to analyse 355 official documents and agents' correspondence in English, French and German gathered from Olympic Museum archives and facilitated by the application of QSR NUD*IST software for qualitative data analysis. A socio-economic and political account of the postcolonial era is provided as viewed through 'prism' of modernisation, cultural imperialism, dependency and figuration theories. The thesis provides an approach to the evaluation of the global diffusion of sport and Olympism through the aid programmes revealing complex responses and engagement with global processes, contextualised by (in some ways) homogenous and (in others) heterogeneous nature of the global sport.

L'étendue et l'étiologie de la fatigue neuromusculaire dépendent des caractéristiques de la tâche. Parmi ces caractéristiques, l'effet des facteurs matériels est peu documenté. Le tennis est un modèle intéressant pour étudier cet effet puisque cette activité se déroule sur différentes surfaces, susceptibles d'influencer le développement de la fatigue. Cette hypothèse reste à vérifier. Par ailleurs, l'évolution des matériaux a rendu les raquettes modernes plus légères, plus rigides que les raquettes en bois. Aussi, afin de garder du contrôle dans le jeu, les joueurs ont adopter des cordages plus rigides, susceptibles de favoriser le développement de la fatigue. Les objectifs de ce travail étaient donc (i), d'évaluer les origines et l'étendue de la fatigue neuromusculaire en fonction de la surface de jeu à la suite d'un match de longue durée, et (ii) de tester l'effet du cordage sur le développement de la fatigue des muscles de l'avant-bras durant un match de tennis simulé. Dans notre première étude, aucune différence significative de fatigue neuromusculaire n'était mesurée lors de matchs disputés sur différentes surfaces. Nos résultats démontrent une baisse limitée de la force des fléchisseurs plantaires à la suite des matchs, majoritairement attribuée à des altérations des capacités contractiles des fléchisseurs plantaires. Le rôle des facteurs centraux étaient moins clair. Dans la seconde étude, nous avons démontré que jouer avec un cordage rigide favorisait le développement de la fatigue sur les muscles de l'avant-bras par rapport à des cordages souples. La baisse de vitesse mesurée au cours du match simulé pourrait être partiellement liée à cette fatigue localisée. / The etiology and amplitude of neuromuscular fatigue depend on the task characteristics. Among these characteristics, the effect of material factors on the development of neuromuscular fatigue has been scarcely documented. Tennis is an interesting model to study this effect since it is played on different surfaces. Playing surfaces may therefore differently influence the development of fatigue on the lower-limb muscles. However, this hypothesis remains to be tested. In addition, the use of composite materials and the progress of engineering have allowed racquet engineers to design tennis racquet frames which are stiffer, lighter, and more powerfull than old wooden racquets. To keep controling the ball, players now use stiffer string that can influence the development of fatigue on the upper-limb muscles. The objectives of this thesis were (i) to evaluate the effect of the playing surface properties on the development of neuromuscular fatigue in tennis and (ii) to test the influence of string stiffness on the occurrence of forearm muscle fatigue during a simulated tennis match. In the first study, no significant difference of neuromuscular fatigue was observed between surfaces. We have reported a moderate reduction of the maximal voluntary force, which was mainly associated with an alteration of the contractile properties of the plantar flexor muscles. The implication of central factors in the voluntary force decrement was less clear. In the second experimentation, we have demonstrated that playing tennis with high-stiffness string promotes forearm muscle fatigue development, which could partly contribute to the groundstroke ball speed decrement during the game.

Perception of effort, defined as “the conscious sensation of hard, heavy and strenuous exercise”, is known to regulate endurance performance and human behaviour. Perception of effort has recently been shown to be exacerbated by mental exertion and is also known to be a main feature of fatigue. However, to date, not only its neurophysiology but also how manipulations of perceived exertion might impact endurance performance remain poorly understood. The main aim of this thesis was to investigate how manipulations of perceived exertion might impact endurance performance. This thesis is divided in two parts: central and peripheral manipulations of perceived exertion. In each part, three experimental chapters aimed to get a better insight in the neurophysiology of perceived exertion and its impact on endurance performance. In the first part (central manipulations), we firstly investigated the impact of exacerbating perceived exertion via mental exertion involving the response inhibition process on self-paced running endurance performance. This study demonstrated that as with time to exhaustion tests, time trial performance is impaired following mental exertion leading to mental fatigue. Secondly, we investigated whether mental exertion leading to mental fatigue could alter the rate of central fatigue development during constant load whole-body exercise. This study demonstrated that the exacerbated perception of effort in presence of mental fatigue does not reflect an altered rate of central fatigue development, but is likely to be due to i) an impaired central motor command and/or ii) an alteration of the central processing of the corollary discharge. Thirdly, we investigated whether mental exertion could impact the repeatability of maximal voluntary contraction of the knee extensors. We found that contrary to submaximal exercise, force production capacity is not altered by mental exertion. Finally, these three studies demonstrated that i) mental exertion negatively impacts submaximal exercise but not maximal exercise and that ii) mental fatigue differs from central fatigue. In the second part (peripheral manipulation), we firstly developed and tested the reliability of a new endurance exercise model non-limited by the cardiorespiratory system (one leg dynamic exercise), which will be of benefits for future researches aiming to manipulate feedback from group III-IV muscle afferents. Secondly, we described neuromuscular alterations induced by this exercise and tested a new methodology to indirectly measure feedback from group III-IV muscle afferents. This study demonstrated that one leg dynamic exercise induced central and peripheral fatigue and also a decrease in spinal excitability associated with an increase in cortical excitability. Furthermore, this study also suggests that monitoring cardiovascular responses during muscle occlusion might be a suitable tool to indirectly measure feedback from group III-IV muscle afferents. Thirdly, we tested the corollary discharge and afferent feedback model of perceived exertion with electromyostimulation. This study demonstrated for the first time that for the same force output, perception of effort generation is independent of muscle afferents and reflects the magnitude of the central motor command (manipulated by electromyostimulation). All together, these findings provide further evidence in support of the corollary discharge model of perceived exertion, and provide a new exercise model to investigate and manipulate perception of effort. This thesis, when integrating both experimental parts, provides new insight on how perception of effort regulates endurance performance. Specifically, it demonstrates how muscle fatigue is a contributor of the continuous increase in perception of effort during endurance exercise, but also that other contributors play a role in this increase in perception of effort. Indeed, we demonstrated for the first time that i) perception of effort alterations in the presence of mental fatigue is independent of any alterations of the neuromuscular system, and ii) muscle afferents does not directly impact perception of effort, but may influence it indirectly via their role in motor control.

This PhD thesis is concerned with sports tourism as a way of experiencing a sense of self, belonging and location in the social world. It is about how identity is developed, expressed and experienced when gymnasts interact within their specific sports community while travelling to take part in a non-competitive, international group gymnastics event. In particular, the research aim is to identify and make sense of the meaning participants attach to their involvement in sports event tourism in the context of the 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne/Switzerland, the purely non-competitive, official world event of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

Submitted by Maykon Nascimento (maykon.albani@hotmail.com) on 2014-11-21T18:04:49Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Erica Bolsan.texto.pdf: 1635235 bytes, checksum: 81ebf349b53b0742077baeafec669f8a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elizabete Silva (elizabete.silva@ufes.br) on 2014-11-28T14:40:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Erica Bolsan.texto.pdf: 1635235 bytes, checksum: 81ebf349b53b0742077baeafec669f8a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-28T14:40:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Erica Bolsan.texto.pdf: 1635235 bytes, checksum: 81ebf349b53b0742077baeafec669f8a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Investiga o livro didático na Educação Física tendo como fonte a produção acadêmica publicada em periódicos, a forma e conteúdo de sete propostas didáticopedagógicas e a análise de proposta construída pelo Proteoria, que tem como eixo central as práticas pedagógicas de professores. Caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa plurimetodológica, utilizando-se de estudo bibliográfico, documental e da (auto)biografia. Na pesquisa bibliográfica, mapeia e analisa textos que abordam propostas didático-pedagógicas para o ensino da Educação Física e aponta aumento de interesse sobre o tema, sobretudo a partir da década de 2000, publicações que têm sido produzidas na relação de parceria entre consultores das universidades e professores das instituições escolares, valorizando a participação dos docentes. Na pesquisa documental, analisa sete propostas didáticopedagógicas com o objetivo de investigar, nas suas formas, os dispositivos de leitura elaborados para projetar as práticas pedagógicas, e, no conteúdo, as representações sobre identidade da Educação Física como componente curricular. Conclui que essas propostas são produto da parceria entre universidade e instituições escolares, dialogando com os professores das redes de ensino. Suas formas e conteúdo indicam relação com as atuais políticas nacionais de reconfiguração da educação básica pelos princípios da integralização, interdisciplinaridade em áreas de conhecimento, especialmente no ensino médio. Na pesquisa (auto)biográfica, ao investigar o livro didático produzido pelos professores de Educação Física das redes de ensino da Grande Vitória-ES em parceria com docentes e alunos da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, observa coerências entre o propósito do projeto, como o protagonismo e autoria do professor, a produção de conhecimento a partir das experiências e o livro didático como caixa de utensílios. Discute, ainda, a necessidade de se aprofundar a progressão e complexidade dos conteúdos, o diálogo entre diferentes conhecimentos escolares e a valorização do protagonismo dos alunos na produção de livros didáticos. / Investigates the textbook in Physical Education taking as source academic works published in journals; the form and the content of seven didactic-pedagogic proposals; analysis of propose built by PROTEORIA whose central axis are the pedagogical practices of teachers. It is characterized as a plurimethodolical research using bibliographic, documentary study and (auto) biography. In bibliographical research, maps and analyzes texts that addressing teaching and pedagogical proposals for the teaching of physical education and points the increased of interest on the topic, especially from the 2000 decade. These publications have been produced in a partnership relationship between university consultants and teachers of educational institutions, valorizing the participation of teachers. In documentary research, analyzes seven didactic-pedagogic proposals in order to investigate the forms, reading devices designed to project the pedagogical practices and, in content, representations of Physical Education identity as a curriculum component. Concludes that these proposals are the product of a partnership between universities and educational institutions, dialoguing with teachers of networks. Its forms and contents indicate relationship with current national policies reconfiguration of basic education by the principles of integralization, and interdisciplinarity and areas of knowledge, especially in high school. In (auto) biographical research, investigating the textbook produced by Physical Education teachers of teaching networks of Grande Vitória - ES, in partnership with professors and students of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, it is observed the coherences between the purpose of project, as protagonism and authorship of the teacher, the production of knowledge from experience and textbook as utensils box. Also discusses the need for further progression and complexity of contents, dialogue between different school knowledge and to enhance the protagonism of students in the production of textbooks.

Submitted by Elizabete Silva (elizabete.silva@ufes.br) on 2015-02-24T17:01:16Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Ana Carolina Godoi da Silveira.pdf: 2622130 bytes, checksum: a1a00ae148dd7845d2fb2f5888a46b14 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elizabete Silva (elizabete.silva@ufes.br) on 2015-03-23T18:47:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Ana Carolina Godoi da Silveira.pdf: 2622130 bytes, checksum: a1a00ae148dd7845d2fb2f5888a46b14 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-23T18:47:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertacao. Ana Carolina Godoi da Silveira.pdf: 2622130 bytes, checksum: a1a00ae148dd7845d2fb2f5888a46b14 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / O objetivo da presente pesquisa é compreender quais são as ações da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Vitória (Seme) para que a Educação Física, enquanto componente curricular, atue no sentido de promover e garantir a cidadania. A relevância da pesquisa está na importância em se discutir a cidadania na formação escolar e em levantar dados que apontem as ações da gestão educacional do Município no sentido de garantir que a Educação Física cumpra um de seus objetivos, a saber, a formação de cidadãos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de abordagem exploratória/descritiva. Para coleta de dados, utilizou-se documentos da Seme, bem como a realização de uma entrevista coletiva na qual estavam presentes professores de Educação Física que atuam administrativamente na Secretaria. O desenvolvimento do estudo se procedeu em três etapas: no primeiro momento, foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico; na segunda etapa, efetivou-se a análise documental nas Diretrizes Curriculares da Prefeitura Municipal de Vitória (PMV) e na Lei 4747/98 que institui o Sistema de Ensino do Município; na última etapa, realizamos uma entrevista coletiva com gestores da Seme com formação em Educação Física. A técnica utilizada para a tabulação dos dados foi a análise de conteúdo, que nos permitiu efetivar um recorte dos textos de acordo com os conteúdos mais significativos, para o posterior agrupamento e categorização das unidades de respostas. Mediante o percurso metodológico descrito acima, foi possível compreender a organização/funcionamento da Coordenação de Desportos da Secretaria, assim como suas ações voltadas para que a Educação Física se reconheça enquanto promotora de cidadania e colabore com a formação cidadã. Constatou-se que expressões como “cidadania”, “direito”, “participação” e “emancipação” aparecem mais no discurso dos gestores, e menos nos documentos e nas ações. Desse modo, pontuamos que se torna evidente que poucas são as estratégias sistematizadas por meio da Seme para que a Educação Física, enquanto componente curricular, possa cooperar com a formação cidadã. / The objective of this research is to understand what are the actions of the Vitória Municipal Secretary of Education (Seme) for Physical Education as a curriculum component acts to promote and ensure citizenship. The relevance of the research is to discuss the importance of citizenship education in school as well as survey data indicate that the actions of the educational administration of the city to ensure that physical education meets one of its objectives: the formation of citizens. This is a qualitative research of an exploratory/descriptive. For the acquirement of informations, we used documents from Seme, and a meeting with a focus group composed for Physical Education teachers who work in administrative Secretariat. The development of the study was conducted in three stages: at first, a literature review was conducted; in the second stage, there was a documentary analysis of the curricular guidelines of the City of Vitória (PMV), and Law 4747/98 establishing the Education System of the City; in the last step, we conducted a focus group with managers from Seme with degrees in Physical Education. The technique used to tabulate the informations, was the content analysis, which provided for a cut of the texts according to content more significant for the later grouping and categorization of units answers. Through the methodological approach described above, it was possible to understand the organization / operation of the Sports Coordinating, as well as their actions towards that Physical Education is recognized as a promoter of citizenship and work with the civic education. Expressions like "citizenship", "justice", "participation" and "emancipation," appear more in the discourse of managers, unless the documents, and almost nothing in the actions. Thus, we point few are the systematized strategies through Seme for the physical education as a curricular component, can cooperate with the citizenship formation.

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Submitted by Maykon Nascimento (maykon.albani@hotmail.com) on 2015-04-10T19:20:30Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Milainy Ludmila Santos.pdf: 1241728 bytes, checksum: 7adcc5f76d1f805f5181cc18972aebd5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elizabete Silva (elizabete.silva@ufes.br) on 2015-04-29T19:11:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Milainy Ludmila Santos.pdf: 1241728 bytes, checksum: 7adcc5f76d1f805f5181cc18972aebd5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-29T19:11:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Milainy Ludmila Santos.pdf: 1241728 bytes, checksum: 7adcc5f76d1f805f5181cc18972aebd5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-10 / O objetivo do estudo foi identificar jogos, danças, brincadeiras e outras práticas corporais para analisar o processo de sua apreensão pelos sujeitos nas dinâmicas de relações sociais das comunidades. Em menor instância, os objetivos foram listados para analisar os momentos de continuidade, descontinuidade e/ou ruptura das tradições que ocorrem ao se desenvolver as práticas corporais e identificar e analisar as relações registradas nos espaços de “entrega” e “recepção” dessas tradições. Para tanto, ao propor a investigação das práticas corporais de comunidades tradicionais como nosso objeto de estudo, decidimos analisar Alto Santa Maria, do estado do Espírito Santo, localizada no município de Santa Maria de Jetibá, elegendo como sujeitos deste estudo crianças e adultos da comunidade pomerana. A partir de uma abordagem qualitativa, num primeiro momento foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico e, posteriormente, o trabalho em campo para a coleta de dados por meio de entrevistas abertas e da técnica de observação assistemática de campo. A análise das entrevistas foi realizada de forma interpretativa, buscando apreender nas falas dos sujeitos, e de forma qualitativamente satisfatória,as categorias previamente selecionadas. A análise dos dados permitiu reconhecer, dentre os vários elementos da identidade cultural, a cultura corporal com relaçãoàspráticas corporais locais. Em Alto Santa Maria, elas se inscrevem em um contexto dinâmico, no qual se registram tanto tradicionais quanto não-tradicionais. Desta forma, concluímos que as práticas corporais, como jogos, brincadeiras e danças, materializam-se, nos contextos descritos, simultaneamente como práticas pomeranas ou externas à comunidade, mas que hoje fazem parte das práticas culturais do Alto Santa Maria, conduzindo a um diálogo entre elas. / The aim of this study was to identify games and playful activities, dances as well as other corporal practices in order to analyse the process in which they are learned by individuals in the dynamics of social relations inside communities. More specifically, the objectives were listed in order to analyse the moments of continuity, discontinuity and/or a departure from traditions that arise in the development of body practices as well as to identify and analyse the relations observed in the spaces in which these traditions are transmitted. For the purpose of investigating corporal practices in traditional communities, the author decided to analyse the Pomeranian community of Alto Santa Maria, located in the municipality of Santa Maria de Jetibá in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Based on a qualitative approach, this study was initiated with a review of the existing literature, followed by a field research where data were collected by the mean of open interviews and observations. The interviews were analysed in an interpretative way, seeking to learn from the subjects’ answers, and the scientific quality was ensured by their previous categorisation. The data analysis enabled to recognize, among the various aspects of cultural identity, corporal culture in relation with local corporal practices. In the community of Alto Santa Maria, they evolve in a dynamic context, in which both traditional and non-traditional practices can be observed. In this perspective, it was concluded that corporal practices like games, playful activities and dances are embodied, in the described context, simultaneously as Pomeranian practices and external practices, but that they now belong to he community’s cultural practices, leading to a dialog between them.