Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan kesan arahan tumpuan terhadap aktiviti otot dan prestasi senaman squat. Seramai 36 orang pelajar perempuan universiti awam telah menyertai  kajian  ini  dan dibahagikan  secara  rawak  kepada  tiga  kumpulan,  iaitu  12 orang bagi setiap kumpulan. Tiga kumpulan tersebut adalah arahan tumpuan dalaman (TD), tumpuan luaran (TL) dan kawalan. Arahan yang diberikan kepada kumpulan TL adalah  membayangkan  seperti  duduk  di  atas  kerusi  manakala  kumpulan  TD  diarah untuk   menumpukan   kepada   pergerakan   dan kedudukan   anggota   tubuh  badan. Elektromiografi  (EMG)  digunakan  untuk  mengukur  aktiviti  otot  semasa  melakukan senaman  squat  manakala  tapisan  pergerakan  Movement  Competency Screen  (MCS) pula digunakan sebagai kriteria untuk mengukur prestasi perlakuan teknik squat yang betul.  Tempoh  intervensi  dijalankan  selama  enam  minggu.  ANOVA  3  kumpulan (arahan T.....

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Coaching program is a primary development setup on national coaching standard, accreditation and education with framework preparing trained coaches to produce high performance athletes. Therefore, it is important to build consensus on the national standard for rugby coaching competency in Malaysia before the preparation for comprehensive structure of qualified coaches. The aim of this study is to find information from all the Malaysian rugby union national coaches to upgrade and improve their coaching competency process for high performance team preparation. The participants are selected based on their responsibility with Malaysia high performance national team based on purposive sampling. There are six national coaches being interviewed using in-depth and semi-structured interview with open-ended question which was carried out and analyzed using ATLAS Ti v.22 with constant comparative method. Based on data collection and analysis, there are five new themes emerging in context with Mal.....

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Fasting months will affect the nutritional intake of football players. They will start fasting from sunrise until sunset and do not even consume water. However, the training session still needs to be conducted to prepare the players for the league. Maintaining their strength and muscle mass still becomes an essential and crucial factor. In that sense, this study was conducted to investigate the effect of a fasting month on resistance training outcomes, specifically on the player's muscle mass and body fat percentage. Twenty-eight youth football players were purposively selected for this study, and they were randomly divided into the control group (CG) (n=14) and the resistance training group (RT) (n=14). Both groups underwent the same cycle of fasting time, including early morning meals, after-sunset dinners, and regular football training sessions. The CG group did not engage in any resistance training program for the study, whereas the RT group completed 65% of 1RM for bench press, pl.....

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Participating in sports has been shown to promote overall wellness and, at the same time, reduce health risks. As more people are participating in sports, competitions have increased, and every aspect of the game has been focused by coaches and athletes in order to improve performance. One of these aspects is the warm-up session. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute effect of a dynamic warm-up versus a proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) warm-up on the sprint and jump performance of recreationally active men. Thirty (n = 30) males were randomly assigned to undergo three sessions of different warm-up types, 72 h apart, involving either proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), dynamic stretching (DS), or no stretching session (control). The PNF and dynamic modes of stretching improved vertical jump performance, F (2.58) = 5.49, p = 0.046, to a certain extent (mean + 3.32% vs. control, p = 0.002 for dynamic and mean + 1.53% vs. control, p = 0.048 for .....

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