Cezar Honceriu

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | UAIC · Department of Physical Education and Sports

p dir="ltr"> A cceleration and running speed develop in childhood based on biological growth. The research aims to compare, according to gender and age, the running times of 5, 10, and 15 m of children aged 6 to 11 years in the north-eastern area of Romania. Our proposed distance analysis is scarce in the literature and we want to enrich and update...

Cognitive decline is one of the most important challenges related to the aging process, due to its important impact on individuals. Several studies have reported that physical exercise with a specific intensity and frequency is beneficial for maintaining cognitive health in the ageing population. The present study investigated the impact of general...

This study examined the determinants of sustained physical activity. Eighty-four participants undertook a 7-weeks walking regime (i.e., a 1-h biometrically-monitored walk, at least 5 days/week), with bioelectrical impedance (BIA) and total cholesterol capillary blood measurements performed before and after programme. To investigate behavioural habi...

Background and Objectives: Cortisol is a valuable marker for assessing the body’s response to any form of stress. We conducted this study in order to evaluate the variations of salivary and serum cortisol levels in professional football players in relation to cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and their significance in potentially evaluating o...

Sustained physical activity induces morphological and functional changes in the cardiovascular system. While mostly physiological, they can also become a trigger for major adverse cardiovascular events, the most severe of which are sudden cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. Therefore, any novel method which can help more accurately estimate th...

Constant and intense physical activity causes physiological adaptive changes in the human body, but it can also become a trigger for adverse events, such as sudden cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death. Our main objective was to assess the use of combined cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and cardiac biomarker determinants in young professio...

Athletes are exposed to a tremendous amount of stress, both physically and mentally, when performing high intensity sports with frequent practices, pushing numerous athletes into choose to use ergogenic aids such as caffeine or β-alanine to significantly improve their performance and ease the stress and pressure that is put onto the body. The benef...

It is well known, although a challenge for the researchers, that chess players tend to have superior intellectual abilities and the idea that chess practice makes people more intelligent became more and more popular. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of chess playing on the intellectualdevelopment of primary-class students. 67...

Soccer has become a genuine industry, where science has been acquiring an ever more defined place. Specialists in the field are looking for solutions to a better detailed and more precise monitoring process for players. In the current research, we propose to use such a tool, namely the InStatgame report, to assess the possible physical effects prod...

The recording of athletes’ physical game parameters is not only interesting, but extremely necessary to monitor the team’s evolution throughout the competitive season, in order to find the best methods and solutions concerning the regulation of effort volume and intensity within the training process. Thepurpose of the study was not to experiment wa...

Chess playing has a significant role in participants’ resources allocation, both at a psychological level, but mostly concerning the cognitive resources. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of chess playing on the intellectual development of primary-class students. 67 children were tested using the Raven Standard Progressive Matr...

The improvement of performance capacity represents the objective to be achieved within sport training, as it is materialised by obtaining valuable results. The sport condition represents the essence of performance capacity. This is the reason why I have decided to study thoroughly the notions related to „sport condition”, but mainly because I wante...

The saline aerosols generated in gaseous media, as nanodispersions, behave, with respect to the concentration levels and the lifespan, as trimodal distributions (the three domains with Gaussian distributions: fine or Aitken under 50 ìm, medium between 50 and 500 µm and, respectively, coarse or large between 500 and 1000 µm). The generation in laten...

Although the importance of resistance training for a variety of health benefits has been recognized for quite some time, its effects on the risk of different types of cancer is not yet clear and additional research into this area has been recommended. Thus, in the present report we will summarize the most important updates on how exercising and esp...

Lactacid anaerobic efforts are frequently encountered in the practice of physical exercises by amateur athletes, while the modification of heart rate in such activities differs from one athlete to another, mainly depending on the training level. The purpose of the paper is to monitor the heart rate in lactacid anaerobic effort and to highlight the...

Generating and studying animal models is a fundamental tool in understanding most of the human specific disorders. However, it is important to mention from the beginning that an animal model will never perfectly replicate the very complex human symptomatology. In the present report, our group will focus on revising the most important animal models...

In this report we will describe the effect of exercising (6 days, each day 3 separate training phases of 5 minutes each, on an adapted treadmill at 1.0 m/s) on oxidative stress status from the temporal lobe (expressed through 3 main parameters: Superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and malondialdehyde (MDA), as a marker of lipid...

Heart rate can be considered an accurate indicator of physical effort because it may unravel important data about one of the most important training and/or game factors: physical effort intensity. Few researches have referred to the heart rate of players practicing minifootball or futsal. Our research focused on assessing heart rate during exercise...

Oxidative stress represents the imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and the organism’s capacity to produce antioxidants. This phenomenon has captured lately a lot of attention, with an additional increased interest being manifested towards the relationship between psychological stress and oxidative stress. In the present stu...

There are very few studies regarding the influence of oxytocin on the oxidative stress status modifications. Even more, the very few studies that exist in this area of research are suggesting controversial results, with reports stating antioxidant, pro-oxidant or sometimes no modifications at all for the specific oxidative stress determined. In thi...

Although it is accepted that an important correlation exists between the physical exercise and the oxidative stress status, the data regarding the levels of the main oxidative stress markers after physical training have been difficult to interpret and a subject of many controversies. There are also very few studies regarding the effects of short-ti...

Some researchers that have analyzed the connection between physical effort and oxidative stress parameters have reported changes, that is increase, decrease or stagnation of these biochemical indicators measured afterphysical effort. It is a known fact that the people who smoke are exposed to oxidative stress, which is accelerated during physical e...

We investigated the effects of a 40 min bout of bicycle exercise, and the effects of vitamin C administration 12 h before exercise, on the serum markers of oxidative stress in young untrained subjects. Increased levels of malondialdehyde, the marker of the lipid peroxidation, and a decrease in specific activity of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione...

Specialised literature is very rich in means evaluating of VAM or vVO2max and methods of increasing this physical ability, yet poorer in assessing the limit time of maintaining it (tlimVO2max). tlimVO2max is the running time that an athlete can maintain at VAM. This study assumes that it is possible that trained individuals achieve a tlimVO2max gre...

We set out to check the validity of an effort test that is aimed at assessing maximal aerobic power on electromagnetic brake bicycle with male subjects, aged between 20 and 30 years, untrained. The test was implemented at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport with 8 untrained subjects with a mean age of 23.38 years, mean weight 80.9 kg and he...