A Ginástica Rítmica é praticada, em quase toda sua totalidade, por meninas, para as quais a iniciação esportiva ocorre de forma precoce. A magreza é uma característica muito prevalente nas atletas, devido às restrições calóricas realizadas, as quais podem afetar o equilíbrio hídrico. Além disso, as sessões de treino são longas (3-4 horas diárias), podendo ocasionar uma não recuperação adequada entre as sessões de treino e competições. Por conseguinte, a combinação da restrição de alimentos com a perda hídrica pela sudorese e as longas sessões de treino pode acentuar a desidratação e, de maneira adversa, prejudicar as respostas fisiológicas, o desempenho e o conforto térmico dos treinos. Objetivo: Comparar respostas fisiológicas e perceptivas de meninas atletas de ginástica rítmica entre uma sessão de treino sem hidratação, e outra com hidratação controlada. Métodos: Quatorze meninas atletas de Ginástica Rítmica que treinavam no período de aproximadamente um ano. Nenhuma tinha diagnóstico de doença crônica ou fazia uso de medicamentos. Elas foram avaliadas em duas sessões de treino (105 minutos cada), uma com hidratação controlada (CH) e outra sem hidratação (SH). A frequência cardíaca (FC), taxa de percepção de esforço (TPE), sensação térmica (ST), conforto térmico (CT) e irritabilidade (IR) foram mensuradas periodicamente. A sudorese foi avaliada, a cada sessão de treino,mediante coleta de uma amostra de suor para análise da concentração de eletrólitos (Na+, Cl- e K+). Foram realizados o teste de força máxima (dinamometria) e o teste do tempo de reação pré e pós sessão de treino. Para a revisão da literatura, foram selecionados 42 artigos nas bases de dados SciELO, Scopus e PubMed com as palavras-chave: hydration, sweating, exercise, children, RhythmicGymnastics, youngathlete. Resultados: Todas as atletas iniciaram as sessões de treino em similares condições de hidratação (hipohidratação mínima), conforme parâmetros urinários. Na sessão de treino CH,encontrou-se um percentual de desidratação de 0,07%, enquanto que na sessão de treino SH esse foi de 1,15%. A força diminuiu na sessão SH (p=0,013), enquanto que nenhuma modificação ocorreu no teste de reação em ambas as sessões. A TPE no minuto 25 foi maior na sessão de treino SH. A ST, no minuto 105, foi maior na sessão SH. O CT e a IR foram similares entre as sessões. Observou-se maior concentração de Na+ na urina na sessão de treino SH. Um grau de hipohidratação acima de 1% pode prejudicar componentes da aptidão física, do conforto térmico, assim como a motivação e a cognição, repercutindo no desempenho do atleta em treinos e competições. Conclusão: A hidratação é essencial para garantir o desempenho e a saúde dos jovens atletas. É necessário que ocorra hipohidratação antes, durante, e após os treinos e competições. Em suma, a maioria dos jovens atletas não consegue ingerir a quantidade necessária para evitar a desidratação. / The Rhythmic Gymnastics is practiced, in almost its totality, by girls, for whom the sports initiation starts early. Thinness is a prevalent characteristic in athletes, due to the caloric restrictions made, that can affect the water balance. Moreover, the training sessions are long (3-4 hours daily), which could cause a non adequate recovery between training sessions and competitions. Thus, the combination of food restriction with the water loss by sweating and the long training sessions can enhance dehydration and, adversely, impair the physiological responses, the performance and the thermal comfort from training. Aim: Compare physiological responses and perceptions of girls athletes of Rhythmic Gymnastics between one training session without hydration and other with controlled hydration. Methods: Fourteen girls athletes of Rhythmic Gymnastics who trained during a period of approximately one year. None of them had a diagnosis of chronic disease or made use of medicaments. They were evaluated in two training sessions (105 minutes each), one with controlled hydration (CH) and other without hydration (WH). The heart rate (HR), rate of perceived exertion (RPE), thermal sensation (TS), thermal comfort (TC) and irritability (IR) were measured periodically. The sweating was evaluated, in each training session, by collecting a sample of sweat to analyze the concentration of electrolytes (Na+, Cl- e K+). The maximal strength test (dynamometry) and the test of reaction time pre and post training session were performed. To literature review, were selected 42 articles in data base ScIELO, Scopus and PubMed with the keywords: hydration,sweating, exercise, children, RhythmicGymnastics, youngathlete. Results: All athletes started training sessions in similar conditions of hydration (minimal hypohydration), according to urinary parameters. In CH training session, we find a dehydration percentage of 0,07%, while in training session WH was 1,15%. The strength decreased in WS session (p=0,013), while no modification occurred in reaction test in both sessions. The RPE on minute 25 was higher than in training session WH. The TS, on minute 105, was higher in session WH. The TC and the IR were similar between sessions. Greater concentration of Na+ in urine was observed in training session WH. A hypohydration degree above 1% can harm components of physical fitness, thermal comfort, as motivation and cognition, impacting the athlete performance in training and competition. Conclusion: Hydration is essential to ensure the young athletes performance and health. In short, majority young athletes can’t ingest a necessary amount to avoid dehydration.

Submitted by Maria Lemos (melemos@ufba.br) on 2018-03-02T01:30:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ElisaVersãoFinal_pag 14fev.pdf: 2825934 bytes, checksum: 3dcdc35c9e1fb7829385aa635e46f0e4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2018-03-02T18:55:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ElisaVersãoFinal_pag 14fev.pdf: 2825934 bytes, checksum: 3dcdc35c9e1fb7829385aa635e46f0e4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-02T18:55:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ElisaVersãoFinal_pag 14fev.pdf: 2825934 bytes, checksum: 3dcdc35c9e1fb7829385aa635e46f0e4 (MD5) / O texto aqui apresentado aborda a Ginástica Rítmica (GR) e seu percurso como prática educativa e esportiva em Salvador, Bahia. Nossa questão de estudo é: como se deu a introdução e o desenvolvimento desta modalidade como prática esportiva e educativa em Salvador? De forma secundária, podemos também perguntar: quais foram os personagens atuantes nesse processo, e como se deram as experiências com a modalidade nos cursos superiores de Educação Física da Bahia? A partir das questões citadas, apontamos como hipótese, a compreensão de que o desenvolvimento da ginástica se deu atrelado à instalação da Educação Física, como curso superior na Bahia e isto, por permitir a formação de profissionais que assumiram relações profissionais com esta prática. Nessa conjuntura, nosso objetivo foi tecer um panorama explicativo sobre a experiência histórica da Ginástica Rítmica na década de 1970. / ABSTRACT The text presented here deals with Rhythmic Gymnastics (GR) and its course as an educational and sports practice in Salvador, Bahia. Our question of study is: how did the introduction and development of this modality take place as a sports and educational practice in Salvador? Secondarily, we can also ask: what were the characters that were active in this process, and how did the experiences with the modality take place in the higher courses of Physical Education in Bahia? Based on the aforementioned questions, we hypothesized that the development of gymnastics was linked to the establishment of Physical Education, as a higher education in Bahia, and this, because it allowed the formation of professionals who had professional relations with this practice. At this juncture, our objective was to provide an explanatory panorama about the historical experience of Rhythmic Gymnastics in the 1970s and, within that, to interpret the specific aspects of the modality, to better understand the expressions assumed in society over the years. The justification of the study is based on the value of sport itself, as a social dimension and more, because we believe in a double expression of practice. The methodology used was the New Cultural History and as sources we used documents, periodicals and interviews, within the temporal cut of the 1970s. As results we identified that GR developed in the city having schools as central space and so-called "schools" too were fundamental. The modality took shape from the formation of new professionals in Physical Education, always counting on characters and social spaces that acted directly with this sport in the city.

In this diploma work there are compared performances and the difficulty of gymnasts' routines (exercies) at the World level. In rhythmic gymnastics (RG) by monitoring and observation I am going to find out the reason, why the national team members the places in the fifth top ten gymnasts (athlets). In this work I am going to observe one of the best European gymnast A. Maksymenko of Ukraine, who regularly participates in the European, World Championships and in the Olympic Games, and the best Czech gymnast M. Míčková, the competitor without participation in the Olympic Games. Further I am going to observe one of the oldest Austrian gymnast, which is also the Olympic participant, but one of the last advancing, level is more similar exercises Czech gymnastics. By observing videos of gymnasts all around (exercise with hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon) according to the international rules of the RG, I am going to compare complexly the change of the rules which are valid in the contemporary olympic cycle and were valid in the previous rules of the last Olympic cycle. In this analyzes I am going to focus on the routines as a whole, from the perspective of the technical elements (difficulties), dynamic rotating elements with rotations under the apparatus (DER, "risc"), mastery handling, innovative handling...

Title: The Problematics of musicality in aesthetic-coordination sports Objectives:. This thesis deals with the problematics of musicality in conjunction with aesthetic-coordination sports, particularly acrobatic rock and roll, Latin American dances and modern gymnastics. The aim is to determine the level of musicality in active individuals operating in these sports sectors and compare these results. Method: The research was made by using standardized test of musicality by Arnold Bentley. The research group consists of competitors of early school age in acrobatic rock and roll (10), Latin American dances (10) and modern gymnastics (10). The results are interpreted by using the tables of frequency and bar graphs through a functions in Excel. Results: The Ranking aesthetic-coordination sports by success in the test musicality by Arnold Bentley is folowing: 1) Acrobatic rock and roll (58,1%), 2) Latin American dances (56,5%), 3) modern gymnastics (55,5%). Keywords: acrobatic rock and roll, music-movement relationships, Latin American dances, early school age, modern gymnastics

The aim of this thesis was to capture the readiness of elementary school teachers in regards to aerobics. I came to a conclusion in my research that aerobic is not included into physical education classes enough, as teachers are not well prepared, and therefore they do not include it in their plans. This fact is rather disturbing because I am positive that the aerobics exercise would enrich students in area of aesthetics and physical skills and coordination.

This thesis is about selection processes and processes of measuring and judging athletes in competitions in top-level sport. The purpose was to increase the knowledge of these processes and to analyse them from a validity perspective in order to contribute to the discussion of whether the “right” athletes are selected to participate in teams, competitions and games and whether the “right” athletes win. The rule and judging systems were investigated in the judged sports acroski and rhythmic gymnastics. Information was gathered through individual interviews with two judges, two coaches, and four elite athletes from each of the sports, and in addition to this the respective sport’s rule systems, judging manuals, meeting protocols and historical documents were studied. Selections to top-level sport teams were investigated by individual interviews with 14 top-level coaches (selectors) from the national league in soccer and a national team and from national teams in alpine skiing. The results from the judging study showed that both studied sports had undergone major changes in their rule and judging regulations, changes that had a considerable impact on the sports and the judgements. The level of definition of the rules and regulations was raised to increase the opportunities for clear and reliable judgements, but this became problematic for the overall validity of the judgements. The reason for this was that the new rules and regulations did not clearly correspond to the original idea of the sport, since the specified and detailed regulations lead to less originality and freedom in the performances. In the selection study, the results pointed to great differences in how precisely defined the selection criteria were among the teams. The selectors stated that well-defined selection criteria or grounds could be helpful in many ways, but they also emphasised how important it was for them that some parts of the selections were based on their subjective valuations of the athletes. Quite a few coaches from both sports argued that they would choose an athlete with good behaviour and favourable personality over an athlete with better sports skills, if they had an opportunity to do that depending on the selection system that was used. Overall, this research displays how validity issues connected to the selection and judging criteria and these processes might affect the outcome of the processes. It is notable that high reliability is in the main focus of the measuring and judging processes, while considerably vaguer and more subjective assessments are considered important in the selection process. The thesis points to the importance of discussing and understanding the consequences of rules, rule changes, selection and judging criteria as well as how these processes are performed, if the desired outcomes and consequences of the selection and judging processes are to be reached.

of disertation Rhythmic gymnastics (RG) is the only Olympia sport of girls and women and it is characterized by precision, fluency and elegance of movement that emphasizes feminine beauty and grace. At present, there is no coherent concept of long-term sports training of talented gymnasts in Czech RG. The outflow of athletes is evident especially during prepubescence. Basic RG preparation aims gradual development of motor abilities, practice of sports (gymnastics) skills and the beginning of specialized techniques based on the principle of comprehensive movement base. This period (in rhythmic gymnastics between 7-9 years of gymnasts) for further performance growth is very substantial, in terms of content and in terms of training forms and influence of trainers (coaches). Defining the content of movement and gymnastic activities determines the path of development athletes and also defines (for caoches) performance criteria in each age category. The aim of disertation was to verify correspondence between published scientific theories and trainers experience of coaching using the Repertory Grid Technique. Along the way sixteen semi-structured interviews with selected experts was achieved interpersonal and intrapersonal data. Experts in the preparation of RG agreed on the fact that in practice a set of...

Title: The Competency Profile of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Coach Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to create the competency profile of the rhythmic gymnastics coach from the perspective of current and former rhythmic gymnasts, based on the identification of important competencies that Czech rhythmic gymnastics coaches lack. Methods: The thesis uses qualitative and quantitative methods. According to the expert literature studies, researches and interviews with the qualified rhythmic gymnastics coaches was created a list of four competency groups that should be needed for quality work of rhythmic gymnastics coach. After that current and former rhythmic gymnasts of the senior age category evaluated the importance of individual competencies and assessed the existence of these competencies in their rhythmic gymnastics coaches by electronic questioning. Results: Two theoretical competency profiles of the rhythmic gymnastics coach are created in the thesis, including competencies from all competency groups: personal characteristics, abilities and skills, education and knowledge, other specific competencies. The first profile includes 23 competencies that Czech coaches lack but the competencies are considered as important ones by the most rhythmic gymnasts. The second profile focuses on ideal...

of disertation Rhythmic gymnastics (RG) is the only Olympia sport of girls and women and it is characterized by precision, fluency and elegance of movement that emphasizes feminine beauty and grace. At present, there is no coherent concept of long-term sports training of talented gymnasts in Czech RG. The outflow of athletes is evident especially during prepubescence. Basic RG preparation aims gradual development of motor abilities, practice of sports (gymnastics) skills and the beginning of specialized techniques based on the principle of comprehensive movement base. This period (in rhythmic gymnastics between 7-9 years of gymnasts) for further performance growth is very substantial, in terms of content and in terms of training forms and influence of trainers (coaches). Defining the content of movement and gymnastic activities determines the path of development athletes and also defines (for caoches) performance criteria in each age category. The aim of disertation was to verify correspondence between published scientific theories and trainers experience of coaching using the Repertory Grid Technique. Along the way sixteen semi-structured interviews with selected experts was achieved interpersonal and intrapersonal data. Experts in the preparation of RG agreed on the fact that in practice a set of...

Title: Specific changes on feet of rhythmic gymnasts and possibilities of physiotherapeutic influence of the feet with the help of a movement program Objectives: An objective of the thesis is to assess a function and specific changes on feet of rhythmic gymnasts and to demonstrate a positive influence of a movement program on these changes and the deteriorated function of the foot. To summarize the results of existing studies focused on influencing of proper function of the foot and to gain useful information from this experiment not only for physiotherapists, trainers and modern gymnasts but also for laical, actively sporting public which exhibit the same issues with the foot area Methods: The main essence of this scientific-research quantitative study is an influencing of deteriorated function and specific changes on feet of rhythmic gymnasts with the help of a movement program. The program was performed after each practice (i.e. 4 times a week) through the course of 3 months. 10 probands in the age from 14 to 17 years participated in the program. The experiment was based on the method of a comparison of 2 questionnaires and an entrance and exit kinesiological analysis, the part of which was also a test according to Véle (with visual control/without visual control) and a plantogram. For their...