Colomar Axup, Joshua (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)
Several physical abilities are considered as determinant performance factors that can differentiate the level and success of a tennis player. Alongside technical proficiency, tactical awareness and ...
Barrero Franquet, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-09-16)
This thesis presents the results of two research studies related to the physiological demands, the energy balance and the muscle damage induced by an ultra-endurance triathlon. The first study of this ...
Montull Pola, Lluc (Date of defense: 2022-05-12)
Sports monitoring, based on excessively simplistic theoretical assumptions and methodological techniques, has limitations for capturing and assessing athletes’ behaviour. This thesis, conceptualizing ...
Rodríguez Zamora, Lara (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
Synchronized swimming (SS) is a sports discipline combining swimming, dancing and gymnastics. Synchronized Swimmers perform a choreography called routine consisting of elaborate moves in the water ...
Vázquez Justes, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-01-24)
A high disciplinary specialization and development of context-specific languages in sport science has promoted its current fragmentation and a lack of communication and transfer of knowledge among ...
Slapsinskaite, Agne (Date of defense: 2017-04-25)
This present document includes a doctoral thesis prepared at the University of Barcelona. This thesis was developed as a compendium of publications resulting from the accomplishments of the 3-year ...
Chaverri Jové, Diego (Date of defense: 2016-06-30)
The assessment of oxygen uptake (Vo2) in swimming is a complex and cumbersome procedure and still faces limitations imposed by the environment and the equipment. There are two different approaches to ...