The present study aims at comparing sport imagery ability and its subscales among elite and non-elite athletes. 1. But do we all mean the same thing? Many also work a second job. The aim of the paper is to widen knowledge about motivation of elite, recreational athletes and non-athletes. Perhaps a failure to replicate research on athletes was due to different levels of ‘eliteness’ of the participants. What separates elite athletes from average athletes and average athletes from the general population has a lot to do with the efficiency of the motor control center of the brain and how quickly it can deliver messages to the muscles to perform certain movements. The research design is causal-comparative or ex post facto. the participants were elite athletes. Compared to female non-elite athletes, female elite athletes scored higher for Threat and Centrality, and, lower appraisal level for potential harm/loss and the importance of an event for well-being. The good news is that an athlete can train his neuromuscular system resulting in better coordination and quicker movements. Evidence acquisition: A Medline search from April 1982 to April 2012 was undertaken for articles written in English. A low resting heart rate is generally a sign of good cardiovascular fitness and efficiency. Elite distance runners also have better running economy compared to other runners, meaning they use smaller quantities of oxygen and energy to maintain a given speed. Non elite would be the others who might be weekend warriors or someone who just loves the sport and does not have the time or chooses not to enter the elite level. A well-trained athlete may have a normal resting heart rate of only 40 beats per minute, compared with the average heart rate that ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute. So a consistent definition of elite Maybe you won’t get the job because your understanding of elite didn’t match the (non-)employer’s. *Dr. Bruce Brown, from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, wrote an article about the differences between athletes and non-athletes* Having read his article, I have broken it down into what I think are the four steps to knowing the difference between those two types of people. The aim of the paper is to widen knowledge about motivation of elite, recreational athletes and non-athletes. In one of the first-ever broad looks at the metabolic profiles of elite athletes, researchers at the Anti-Doping Laboratory in Qatar took advantage of that sample set. Amateur athletes might play baseball, tennis or volleyball just for fun, getting together on the weekend or after work for a pick-up game or to compete against other recreational teams. Non-elite female athletes, on the other hand, perceived a greater degree of potential harm-loss. 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