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Early career termination with performance tennis players
Pěničková, Dominika ; Kočíb, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pravečková, Petra (referee)
Title: The reasons of the early career termination of high-performance tennis players. Objectives: The aim of this diploma thesis was to find out and analyze the causes or reasons leading to the involution in women's performance tennis, especially to their early career termination, while their goal was to reach the top level. Method: In this diploma thesis, I used a qualitative type of research. Chosen was a case study variant. Information was collected through semi-structured interview and document data analysis. Results: The survey results prove that there is not one main reason for the early termination of the career of high-performance female tennis players, but several voluntary and involuntary combinations of reasons that led to the termination of the career. Female players end their careers early mainly because of not reaching the required level and the related voluntary focus on studies and future profession. These reasons are a combination of long-term sporting failure (psychological reason) and free choice to leave (personal reason). Other reasons for premature termination are physiological problems, most often injury or illness, which forced female players to stop active activity. Key words: Sports career, reasons for termination sports career, early termination
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Ambitions of parents and their sports children
Krupičková, Zuzana ; Pěkný, Martin (advisor) ; Kotlík, Kamil (referee)
Title: Ambitions of parents and their sports children Objectives: The goal is to find out what influeces lead the youg population to sports. We want explore how much influence parents have for their children's sports. We also focus on the ambition of athletes on their sports activities Methods: This is an empirical research. The mixed research method will be used for this work, so that is qualitative and quantitative. The forms of a semi-structured interview and semi- structured questionnaire were used for the research study. Then we converted the obtained results into graphs and charts where we monitored the correlation between in the data obtained about athletes and their parents. Results: We knew how important the influence of parents is on their children's sports career. More or less parents did not care what sport their children chose. It was important for parents to make their children do what they enjoyed. The most important thing for parents was that their children develop motor skills and try more sports. Subsequently, they were able to better decides for themselves wchich sport they would do in the future. The most ambitious were parents or grandparents who used to play football, hockey and tennis. They wanted to practice the sport to their children. More than half of fathers wanted their...
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Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems.
Svoboda, David ; Suchý, Jiří (advisor) ; Harbichová, Ivana (referee)
Author: Bc. David Svoboda Title: Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems Objectives: As there are not many surveys and publications dealing with psychological consequences caused by health problems in top- athletes' career, the main purpose of the research was to analyse authentic experience and recommendations, how the selected Olympic winners lived through these periods, what experience they have and what they would recommend to other athletes in this context from the viewpoint of their mental resistance. Furthermore, we will attempt to reveal possible consequences between the athletes' health and mental health. The following aim is to summarise this information into valid recommendations for other sportsmen. Methods: To obtain detailed information, a qualitative method through a structured interview with open questions (Hendl, 2005) was selected. The structured interview was conducted with nine Olympic winners and it contained 12 basic questions that were divided into three main sectors for clarity - a sector of athlete's mental resistance, a sector of athletes' health problems and their consequent reaction and the respondents' ideas and recommendations. The results were subjected to...
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The influence of early specialization and general preparation on the sports career of a performance cyclist
SOUČKOVÁ, Celestýna
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out whether there is a direct influence of early specialization and early start of activities on the further course of the career and to compare it with the concept of general training. The research method is an electronic questionnaire of our own design, which is part of a quantitative survey. The questionnaire has 25 questions that have both closed and open answers. The research group consists of 37 respondents who practice cycling or have performed at the performance level in the elite category. Based on the answers from the questionnaire, graphs and evaluation of the results were created, which are presented in the practical part of the work. The main results include the following: It has been shown that individuals who started cycling within the age of 8 have achieved significantly more significant success in the youth categories than other age groups. Individuals belonging to the first group (up to 8 years of age) were most affected by health problems, which means that starting a cycling career at an early age has a more negative impact on the health of individuals than the later beginning of a sports career. In comparison with the average training units, the first age group (up to 8 years) had on average more cycling trainings than the second, but also other sports activities significantly exceeded in individuals who started up to 8 years. It has also been shown that individuals who started cycling at an earlier age end their careers for health reasons more often than those who start later. This research has shown the pros and cons of early specialization and its impact on an individual's career.
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Analysis of sporting career of members of the cyclo-cross youth center Tabor
Bednář, Michal ; Šafránek, Jiří (advisor) ; Henke, Svatopluk (referee)
Title: Analysis of sporting career of members of the cyclo-cross youth center Tábor Objectivess: The aim of my thesis is to find out what are the most common causes of the exodus of young children from SCM Tabor and to suggest how to prevent premature termination of a career. Methods: I used a systematic opinion poll asking as the main research method for data collection, using open and closed questions. For purpose of research sample, 27 cyclist were included as an active and inactive respondents from SCM Tabor. All respondents were male with the age range between 14-33 years old. I was sending out questionnaires via e-mail or I have met concerned respondents in person. Based on the answers I came up with results and I converted them into text and graphs in the thesis. Results: The results showed that most of young cyclists career end due to loss of motivation for training and for improving performance, thus responded 10 respondents, 45%. Six respondents, 27% of the total, pointed out as the reason for termination the failure in their sport career. Another two had as a reason to end financial problems in the family, furthermore one pointed out injury as a reason. Six parents of respondents had no sport history and three of them rather did not want their child to be a cyclist. For 26% of the...
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Analysis of sporting career of members of the cyclo-cross youth center Tabor
Bednář, Michal ; Šafránek, Jiří (advisor) ; Henke, Svatopluk (referee)
Title: Analysis of sporting career of members of the cyclo-cross youth center Tábor Objectivess: The aim of my thesis is to find out what are the most common causes of the exodus of young children from SCM Tabor and to suggest how to prevent premature termination of a career. Methods: I used a systematic opinion poll asking as the main research method for data collection, using open and closed questions. For purpose of research sample, 27 cyclist were included as an active and inactive respondents from SCM Tabor. All respondents were male with the age range between 14-33 years old. I was sending out questionnaires via e-mail or I have met concerned respondents in person. Based on the answers I came up with results and I converted them into text and graphs in the thesis. Results: The results showed that most of young cyclists career end due to loss of motivation for training and for improving performance, thus responded 10 respondents, 45%. Six respondents, 27% of the total, pointed out as the reason for termination the failure in their sport career. Another two had as a reason to end financial problems in the family, furthermore one pointed out injury as a reason. Six parents of respondents had no sport history and three of them rather did not want their child to be a cyclist. For 26% of the...
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