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Nutrition and its effect on the performance of extreme obstacle course racers
MURČO VIRŠÍKOVÁ, Klára
The bachelor thesis named Nutrition and its effect on the performance of extreme obstacle course racers aims to find out what effect nutrition has on the performance of extreme obstacle course racers and compares the change of the performance in the group of respondents with a fixed eating plan and in the group of respondents with no special eating plan. The theoretical part deals with the nutrition in sport and extreme obstacle races. For the research a quantitative method was used. The research file was made of two groups with two people in each group. The age of respondents was between 20 and 42 years. Each group consisted of one man and one woman. All four respondents were active athletes. One group had no special eating plan and respondents wrote down everything what they ate during the whole month and the other group had a fixed eating plan made in Nutriservis Professional program which respondents strictly followed. The whole research lasted one month and all respondents were tested on InBody device at the beginning and at the end of the research. They also took part in physical tests. During the research respondents had common trainings twice a week and then they had the same individual trainings to minimize differences in the preparation. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to point out the importance of nutrition in the preparation for extreme obstacle races. Results of the research definitely show that respondents with the fixed eating plan had really better results in the end of the research. In the future this thesis could be useful in the preparation of racers for extreme obstacle races. This assignment is based on professional literature available on this topic.
The influence of media on the czech athletes before and during the olympic games in london 2012
Železná, Katarína ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Hájek, Roman (referee)
The bachelor thesis Influence of Media on Czech Athletes before and during the Olympic Games in London 2012 examines the impact of selected Czech media on the successful Czech athletes including: world record holder Barbora Špotáková, European Vice-champion Denisa Rosolová, World Champions Vítězslav Veselý and Zuzana Hejnová. The main content and at the same time the aim of the thesis is to inspect whether the selected media activity had positive or negative impact to the athletes performance at 2012 Olympic Games in London. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and analytic. The theoretical part is based on two main assumptions. First, media can affect an individual's state of mind, and second, a psyche of an athlete can have an impact on his or her performance. The author explains general effects of the media and points out how they can influence a success of the athlete. In addition, it describes the importance of athlete's psyche during the competition. Afterwards, it introduces the selected athletes, the most important moments in their Olympic season, and also selected media with their sections, which are explored in the practical part of the thesis. The practical part of the thesis is based on the news from public and commercial media. Therefore, for the purpose of this thesis,...

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