Nils Petter Aspvik
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Bygg 10, 10541, Dragvoll, Postboks 8900, Torgarden 7491 Trondheim
Research
Aspvik researches various topics related to sports and health. The research concentrates particularly on youth sports and the transition from junior to senior level (elite sports). Some of the topics are pain culture, painkillers, burnout, and the coach-athlete relationship. In addition, Aspvik conducts research on physical activity, with a particular focus on the use of the Actigraph accelerometer (objective measurements). I.e., he has been responsible for the objective assessment of physical activity (Actigraph accelerometer) in the Generation 100 Study (Gen100), as well as in the Trondheim Early Secure Study (TESS).
The Trondheim Early Secure Study
The goal of the study is to determine the prevalence and course of common mental disorders, physical inactivity, eating behaviours and adiposity, and to detail potential etiological factors.
The Generation 100 Study
Gen100 er en treningsstudie som har fulgt mer enn 1500 kvinner og menn i 70-årene i fem år. Målet har vært å finne ut om trening kan gi eldre et lengre og friskere liv, og vi sammenligner også effekten av trening med moderat og høy intensitet.
Utviklingsmiljø, risikokultur og destruktiv ledelse i idretten
Prosjektet utviklingsmiljø og destruktiv ledelse i idretten består av 2 delprosjekter:
Utviklingsmiljø og risikokultur i ungdomsidretten, samt Destruktiv ledelse i idretten.
Publications
Comparing talent development environments of girls and boys in handball and ice hockey in Norway
Currently, there is little research on successful talent development environments (TDEs) focusing on girls. In response, the main aim of the present study was to compare TDEs of agespecific national teams for girls and boys in the Norwegian context
Embedded, embodied, enculturated, and enabling processes: The identification and evaluation of sporting talent by ice hockey coaches in Norwegian youth international teams.
The aim of this case study is therefore to explore how coaches of Norwegian youth ice hockey international teams identify and evaluate sporting talent within these structured settings. The data were generated using nine semi-structured interviews.
Are older adults physically active enough - A matter of assessment method? The generation 100 study.
The aim of the present study was to compare the adherence to the PA recommendation using both absolute and relative thresholds. Additionally, we aimed to report the reference values for overall PA in a large sample of Norwegian older adults.
Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
The aim of this study was to examine junior-elite football players' perception of their talent development environment by comparing clubs ranked as the top-five and bottom-five in the 2017 Norwegian academy classification.
- Kuldas, S., Ranum, B. M., Aspvik, N. P., Wichstrøm, L., Steinsbekk, S. (2025). Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Sleep from Childhood to Young Adulthood: A Seven-Wave Cohort Study of Within-person Relations. (Submitted, SLEEP)
- Bergström, M, Høigaard, R., Aspvik, N.P. & Sæther, S.A. (2025) "It´s unrealistic": Experiences of Swedish Elite Female Ice Hockey Players Considering Parenthood. (Accepted, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.
- Tronstad, M., Aspvik, N.P., Abrahamsen, F. & Sæther, S.A. (2025) "It is like a endless guilt trip". Wrestlers willingness to train and compete with pain and/or injuries. (Submitted - International Journal of sports Science and Coaching).
- Torvik, L.M.J., Aspvik, N.P., Sæther, S.A. & Høigaard, R. (2025) Perceived social support in the rehabilitation process among elite female handball players. (Submitted - Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology)
- Bergström, M., Høigaard, R., Aspvik, N.P. & Sæther, S.A. (2024) "Same sport, different game" Male and female Junior Norwegian national ice hockey players´ perceptions of their talent development environments. (Accepted, Sport in society).
- Reitlo. L., Aspvik, N. P., Wisløff, U., Stensvold, D. (2025). Comparison between objective and subjective measurements of physical activity and peak oxygen uptake in older adults: The Generation 100 Study. (Submittet – Journal of Aging and Physical Activity).
- Solberg, A., Stensvold, D., Aspvik, N. P., (….), Wisløff, U. (2025).. Effect of a 5-Year Exercise Intervention on Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Older Adults – The Generation 100 Study. (Accepted – Journal of Physical Activity & Health).
- Hallan, S. I., Øvrehus, M. A., Shlipak, M. G., Potok, A., Romundstad, S., Aspvik, N. P., Wisløff, U., 8 9, Ix, J. H., Stensvold, D., Langlo, K. A. (2025). Long-term physical exercise for preventing chronic kidney disease in older adults: a Randomized Controlled Trial. (Accepted - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology)
- Mehus, Ingar; Martindale, Russell; Andronikos, Georgios; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Bergström, Max Viktor Jonathan; Sæther, Stig Arve (2024). Comparing talent development environments of girls and boys in handball and ice hockey in Norway. European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS)
- Lundgren, K. M., Langlo, K. A. R., Salvesen, Ø., Aspvik, N. P., Mo, R., Ellingsen, Ø., Vesterbekkmo, E., Zanaboni, P., Dalen, H., Aamot Aksetøy, I-E (2024). Exercise-Based Telerehabilitation for Heart Failure Patients Declining Outpatient Rehabilitation - A Randomized Controlled Trial. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Røsten, Stian; Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Bjørndal, Christian Thue (2023). Embedded, Embodied, Enculturated, and Enabling Processes: The Identification and Evaluation of Sporting Talent by Ice Hockey Coaches in Norwegian Youth National Teams. International Sport Coaching Journal
- Gangsø, Kristian S.; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingar, Mehus; Høigaard, Rune; Sæther, Stig Arve (2022). Talentutviklingsmiljø – en sammenligning av høyt og lavt rangerte akademier. www.fotballtreneren.no
- Lundgren, K. M., Aspvik, N. P., Langlo, K. A. R., Braaten, T., Wisløff, U., Stensvold, D., Karlsen, T. (2021). Blood Volume, Hemoglobin Mass, and Peak Oxygen Uptake in Older Adults: The Generation 100 Study. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
- Gangsø, Kristian S.; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Mehus, Ingar; Høigaard, Rune; Sæther, Stig Arve (2021). Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
- Viken, Hallgeir; Reitlo, Line Skarsem; Zisko, Nina; Nauman, Javaid; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik (2019). Predictors of dropout in exercise trials in older adults: The generation 100 study. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Aspvik, Nils Petter; Viken, Hallgeir; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Zisko, Nina; Mehus, Ingar; Wisløff, Ulrik (2018). Do weather changes influence physical activity level among older adults? – The Generation 100 study. PLOS ONE
- Reitlo, Line Skarsem; Bucher Sandbakk, Silvana; Viken, Hallgeir; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Tan, Xiang chun (2018). Exercise patterns in older adults instructed to follow moderate- or high-intensity exercise protocol - the generation 100 study. BMC Geriatrics
- Zisko, Nina; Nauman, Javaid; Bucher Sandbakk, Silvana; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Salvesen, Øyvind; Carlsen, Trude (2017). Absolute and relative accelerometer thresholds for determining the association between physical activity and metabolic syndrome in the older adults: The Generation-100 study. BMC Geriatrics
- Stensvold, Dorthe; Bucher Sandbakk, Silvana; Viken, Hallgeir; Zisko, Nina; Reitlo, Line Skarsem; Nauman, Javaid (2017). Cardiorespiratory Reference Data in Older Adults: The Generation 100 Study. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Høigaard, Rune (2017). Norwegian football academy players - Player's self-assessed skills, stress and coach-athlete relationship. The Open Sports Sciences Journal
- Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter (2017). Descriptive analysis of objectively assessed physical activity among talented soccer players: a study of three Norwegian professional football clubs. BMJ Open sport & exercise medicine
- Sandbakk, Silvana Bucher; Nauman, Javaid; Zisko, Nina; Sandbakk, Øyvind; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Stensvold, Dorthe (2016). Sedentary Time, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Clustering in Older Adults--the Generation 100 Study. Mayo Clinic proceedings
- Tjønndal, Anne; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Mehus, Ingar; Sæther, Stig Arve (2016). Misforståelser om instruerende lederstil – svar på kronikk. Fotballtreneren
- Tjønndal, Anne Beret; Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Mehus, Ingar (2016). Instruerende og positiv feedback ledelse i fotball:En undersøkelse av norske mannlige fotballtreneres lederstil. Idrottsforum.org - Nordic Sport Studies Forum
- Aspvik, Nils Petter; Viken, Hallgeir; Zisko, Nina; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Wisløff, Ulrik; Stensvold, Dorthe (2016). Are older adults physically active enough - A matter of assessment method? The generation 100 study. PLOS ONE
- Viken, Hallgeir; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Zisko, Nina; Wisløff, Ulrik; Stensvold, Dorthe (2016). Correlates of objectively measured physical activity among norwegian older adults: The Generation 100 Study. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity
- Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter (2016). Norwegian Junior Football Players – Player´S Perception Of Stress According To Playing Time. Sport Science Review
- Viken, Hallgeir; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Zisko, Nina; Wisløff, Ulrik; Stensvold, Dorthe (2015). A cross-sectional study of physical activity correlates in older adults (70-77yrs): The Generation 100 study. European Geriatric Medicine
- Zisko, Nina; Carlsen, Trude; Salvesen, Øyvind; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Wisløff, Ulrik (2015). New relative intensity ambulatory accelerometer thresholds for elderly men and women: The Generation 100 study. BMC Geriatrics
- Sæther, Stig Arve; Aspvik, Nils Petter (2014). Seasonal variation in objectively assessed physical activity among young Norwegian talented soccer players: A description of daily physical activity level. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
- Ingebrigtsen, Jan Erik; Mehus, Ingar; Aspvik, Nils Petter; Sæther, Stig Arve (2008). Kroppsøving- hvorfor og hvordan?. Kroppsøving
Outreach
Athletes’ willingness to communicate pain to their coach. A cross sectional study of Norwegian handball players
Poster på SCAPPS om håndballspilleres villighet til å kommunisere smerte til treneren. Kingston, Canada.
Underkommunikasjon av smerte blant aldersbestemte landslagsutøvere i håndball og ishockey
Foredrag på Olympiatoppens forskningskonferanse 2024. Norges Idrettshøgskole.
Aldersbestemte landslagsspilleres opplevelse av utviklingsmiljøet i egen klubb
Foredrag til landslagstrenere i håndball om utviklingsmiljø til aldersbestemte landslagsspillere. Med Stig Arve Sæther. Oslo.
2024
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Academic lecture(2024) Successful talent development environments and achievement goals of age-specific national teams in football, handball, and ice hockey. FEPSAC , Innsbruck 2024-07-14 - 2024-07-19
2023
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Poster(2023) Perceived support in the rehabilitation process among female elite handball players. . Scapps The Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS 2023) , Kingston 2023-10-12 -
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Academic lecture(2023) Talent development environments in Norwegian age-specific national teams in handball and ice hockey. European College of Sport Science 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) , Paris 2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07
2022
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Academic lecture(2022) Talentutviklingsmiljø i håndball og fotball: hvordan hindre burnout. NTNU NTNU Idrett Forskningskonferanse , Trondheim 2022-12-01 - 2022-12-01
2017
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Poster(2017) Trening for et bedre samfunn? Generasjon 100 – fysisk aktivitet, fysisk form og livskvalitet blant eldre . Oppstartskonferanse for Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap, NTNU 2017-03-16 - 2017-03-16
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Poster(2017) Which older adults will not complete an exercise trial? Predictors of dropout in the Generation 100 study . Cardiac Exercise Research Group, NTNU The 7th Seminar on Exercise in Medicine , Trondheim 2017-12-14 - 2017-12-15
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Academic lecture(2017) Predictors of attrition in a large, long-term exercise randomized controlled trial – the Generation 100 study. European Geriatric Medicine Society 13th International Congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS 2017) , Nice 2017-09-20 - 2017-09-22
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Lecture(2017) Fysisk aktivitetsnivå hos eldre. Fagseminar for Norges Fysioterapeutforbund, 3 fagseminar for region sør-øst , Kristiansand, Tønsberg og Lillehammer 2017-09-05 - 2017-09-12
2016
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Academic lecture(2016) High Age-specific Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuates the Adverse Effect of Sedentary Time on Cardiovascular Risk Factor Clustering in Older Adults: The Generation 100 Study. 14th Annual CHFR Symposium on Heart Failure , Oslo 2016-09-21 - 2016-09-23
2015
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Academic lecture(2015) A cross-sectional study of physical activity correlates in older adults (70-77yrs): The Generation 100 study. EUGMS 2015. European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (konferanse) , Oslo 2015-09-16 - 2015-09-18
2013
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Academic lecture(2013) Parental socio-economic position and behavior influencing habitual physical activity among 6-year old children. A representative community study. European College of Sport Science Europena College of Sport Science , Barcelona 2013-06-25 - 2013-06-29
2012
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Academic lecture(2012) Samfunnets bekymring for barns inaktivitet – et måleproblem!?. NTNU Samfunnsforskning Forskerjam, Samfunnsdagen - NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS , Dragvoll, låven 2012-08-23 - 2012-08-23
2010
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Academic lecture(2010) Den norske barneidretten. Norges idrettsforbund Fagsamling. Den norske barneidretten (NIF) , Kristiansand 2010-09-20 - 2010-09-21
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Academic lecture(2010) Determinants of exercise enjoyment. the Middle East Technical University European College of Sport Science , Antalya 2010-06-23 - 2010-06-26
2009
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Academic lecture(2009) Hansen B. H, Aspvik N. P, Ylvisåker E, Jakobsen J. E, Kolle E, Anderssen, S. A. (2010). Fysisk inaktivitet blant voksne og eldre i Norge (KAN1 – Kartlegging Aktivitet Norge). NIH Idrettsmedisinsk høstkongress , Oslo 2009-11-05 - 2009-11-08