The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes

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Table 1. training habits before and during COVID-19 lockdown.

	Before COVID-19 lockdown		During COVID-19 lockdown
Variable	Obs.	Percentage	Obs.	Percentage
Online training in group	93	9.76	297	31.21
Online training individual	116	12.18	341	35.85
Sport facility in group	788	82.74	181	19.12
Sport facility individual	628	65.93	201	21.08
Outdoors in group	484	50.81	425	44.63
Outdoors individual	523	54.94	726	76.82

Table 2. COVID-19, athletes’ attitudes, well-being, training and competition.

Variable	N	Min	Max	Mean	Std.dev.
Dig.training importance	953	1	4	2.46	.915
Nec. shut down sport facilities	953	1	4	3.18	1.12
Restrictions too strict	953	1	4	2.30	1.06
Follow restrictions	953	1	4	3.86	.585
Contact with coach	953	1	5	2.94	1.25
Isolated at home	953	1	4	3.42	1.00
Dummy variable	N	Obs. 0	Obs. 1	Percentage 0	Percentage 1
Cancelled competition (yes = 1)	953	224	729	23.45	76.55
Training frequency (less = 1)	953	439	514	45.93	54.07
Motivation (less = 1)	953	280	673	29.37	70.63
Performance worry	953	421	532	44.2	55.81
Body change worry	953	483	470	50.6	49.48

Table 3. Logistic regression online training during lockdown (n = 953).

Variable	Coef	Std.dev	t-value	p-value	[95% Conf.	Interval]
Constant	−3.00	.447	−6.71	.000**	−3.88	−2.12
Gender (1 = women)	.988	.159	6.20	.000**	.676	1.30
Individual sports	−.214	.169	−1.26	.011*	−.545	.118
Urban	.179	.076	2.34	.019*	.029	.329
Age	−.028	.038	−0.74	.457	−.103	.046
Professional athlete	−.184	.312	−0.59	.555	−.796	.483
Training hours	.426	.078	5.45	.000**	.273	.579
Years of experience	.108	.0636	1.71	.087	−.015	.233
Performance worry	−.082	.171	−0.48	.631	−.418	.253
Body change worry	−.087	.181	−0.48	.629	−.443	.268
Pseudo R^2 = 0.13	LR chi 2(9)=95.50	p<.01

**p<.01

Table 4. Logistic regression virtual competitions during lockdown (n = 953).

Variable	Coef	Std.dev	t-value	p-value	[95% Conf.	Interval]
Constant	−3.92	.582	−6.51	.000**	−5.06	−2.64
Gender (1 = women)	−.441	.212	−2.08	.037*	−.858	−.025
Individual sports	.204	.217	0.94	.347	−.222	.631
Urban	−.027	.093	−0.30	.768	−.210	.155
Age	.114	.043	2.65	.008*	.029	.199
Professional athlete	.628	.346	1.82	.069	−.049	1.30
Training hours	.213	.097	2.19	.029*	.022	.405
Years of experience	−.108	.075	−1.44	.149	−.255	.038
Performance worry	1.13	.227	4.97	.000**	.685	1.57
Body change worry	−.447	.293	−1.52	.127	−1.02	.127
Pseudo R^2 = 0.11	LR chi 2(9)=82.18	p<.01

**p<.01