Vol. 12, Issue 3, 2024

Effect of Climate Change Training, Adaptation, and Performance of Athlete in Lagos, Nigeria

Taiwo A.B, Apalara F.A, Fasan C.O & Ade Adebayo

Abstract

Climate change is a global burden that has far-reaching effects on almost every
aspect of human life and the world of sport has also had its own share of this
burden, from disruption of sports events to training rescheduling, athlete
adaptation, and performance due to climate change. The study examined the
effect of climate change on athletes' training, adaptation, and performance in
Lagos State. One hundred (100) university athletes, professional athletes, and
coaches were purposively selected to participate in the study. Data were
collected through validated Climate Change and Athletes, Training, Adaptation and Performance Questionnaire (CCATAPQ) with a reliability
coefficient of 0.69. The questionnaire was structured to assess athletes' and
coaches’ experience of how climate change has affected athlete management
in terms of, training, preparation, and performance. The first section of the
questionnaire elicits the demographic information of the respondents such as
gender, age, and type of sport, while the second section focuses on how
climate change affects athletes' training, preparation, and performance. Data
collected was analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency count, simple
percentage, and mean for demographic data and inferential statistics of one
sample goodness-of-fit test at 0.05 level of significance. Results reveal that
climate change has a significant effect ?²(2) = 40.820, p<.05. athletes' training, athletes’ adaptation ?²(3) = 12.00, p < .05 and athletes’ performance ?²(4) =
48.100, p<.05 at 0.05 level of significance. The study concludes that climate
change has negative effects on athlete’s training, adaptation and performance. The study recommends that coaches, athletes, and other stakeholders in sports
should use sports platforms to advocate for behaviour change to reduce global
warming also exercise physiologists and athlete managers should design
acclimatization programmes to make athletes adapt to the extreme climatic
conditions.

Keywords

Keywords: Climate change, Athlete, Training, Adaptation, Performance

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