Terje Dalen
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education and Arts
Areas of expertise
Sports, Sports research, Sports physiology, Sports teacher, Sports science, Learning and Performance development, Talent development
Associate Professor in Sports Science
- Program Director for the Master’s in Physical Education and Sports Science
- Research focused on sports and movement science
- Member of the research group “Sport and Human Movement Science” (SaHMS)
- Teaching and supervision at the bachelor’s and master’s levels in sports science
- Ph.D. in “Physical high-intensity actions in elite soccer”
Miscellaneous:
- Physical trainer (physiologist) at Levanger Football Club for several years
- Physical advisor at Levanger Handball Club
- Office location: Nordlåna
2025
The effect of organizational differentiation in football training on young football players 2025 Frontiers in Psychology - Olav Størdal, Terje Dalen, Pål Arild Lagestad
Practical application of foot-mounted sensor technology to estimate external training load indicators in soccer 2025 - Simen Raaen Sandmæl, Terje Dalen, David Caley Ruud McGhie
Strength training among professional UCI road cyclists: Practices, challenges, and rationales 2025 PLOS ONE - Vidar Vikestad, Idar Lyngstad, Terje Dalen
The Impact of Touch Restrictions in Small-Sided Games on Soccer Players' Passing, Receiving, and Ball-Touch Temporal Intervals 2025 The Journal of Human Kinetics - Mathias Rosten, Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen
2024
Effect of Strength and Endurance Training Sequence on Endurance Performance 2024 Sports - Vidar Vikestad, Terje Dalen
Effects of a Short-Term Soccer Training Intervention on Skill Course Performance in Youth Players: A Randomized Study 2024 Sports - Arne Sørensen, Terje Dalen, Pål Arild Lagestad
Physical high-intensity actions in elite soccer 2024 - Terje Dalen
2023
Validity and Reliability of Polar Team Pro and Playermaker for Estimating Running Distance and Speed in Indoor and Outdoor Conditions 2023 Sensors - Simen Raaen Sandmæl, Roland Johannes Wilhelmus van den Tillaar, Terje Dalen
Sex-based age differences in the Norwegian top soccer leagues 2023 Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - Ingvild Berg, Terje Dalen, Guro Strøm Solli
2022
Interacting Constraints and Relative Age Effect in Elite Cross-Country Skiers and Freeskiers 2022 The Journal of Human Kinetics - Truls Roaas, Håvard Lorås, Tore Kristian Aune, Boye Flakken Kristiansen, Terje Dalen
Performance in youth track and field is associated with birth quartile. A register-based study among athletes in Norway from 10 years to senior level 2022 PLOS ONE - Hilde Gundersen, Anette Kristoffersen Harris, Halvard Grendstad, Morten Kristoffersen, Atle Guttormsen, Terje Dalen, Cecilie Brekke Rygh
Variations in the relative age effect with age and sex, and over time—Elite-level data from international soccer world cups 2022 PLOS ONE - Arve Vorland Pedersen, Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen, Håvard Lorås
Relative Age Effect Among the Best Norwegian Track and Field Athletes of All Time: Comparisons of Explosive and Endurance Events 2022 Frontiers in Psychology - Alexander B. Kirkeberg, Truls Roaas, Hilde Gundersen, Terje Dalen
2021
Prinsipper for utvikling av fysiske ferdigheter Kroppsøving, læreren og eleven. Pedagogiske emner og forskningsinnsikter 2021 - Terje Dalen, Truls Roaas, Morten Andreas Aune
Relative alderseffekter i skole og idrett Kroppsøving, læreren og eleven. Pedagogiske emner og forskningsinnsikter 2021 - Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune
A Novel Approach for Comparison of Reception Performance in a Technique Test and Small-Sided Games 2021 Sports - Arne Sørensen, Vidar Sørensen, Terje Dalen
2020
Player load in male elite soccer: Comparisons of patterns between matches and positions 2020 PLOS ONE - Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Gertjan Ettema, Øyvind Sandbakk, David McGhie
2019
Monitoring training and match physical load in junior soccer players: Starters versus substitutes 2019 Sports - Terje Dalen, Håvard Wuttudal Lorås
A population study of relative age effects on national tests in reading literacy 2019 Frontiers in Psychology - Ole Petter Vestheim, Magne Husby, Tore Kristian Aune, Ottar Bjerkeset, Terje Dalen
Accelerations – a new approach to quantify physical performance decline in male elite soccer? 2019 European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) - Terje Dalen, Håvard Wuttudal Lorås, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Terje Næss Kjøsnes, Ulrik Wisløff
Differences in acceleration and high intensity activities between small-sided games and peak periods of official matches in elite soccer players 2019 Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research - Terje Dalen, Simen Raaen Sandmæl, Tom Stevens, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Terje Næss Kjøsnes, Ulrik Wisløff
The validity of functional threshold power and maximal oxygen uptake for cycling performance in moderately trained cyclists 2019 Sports - Arne Sørensen, Tore Kristian Aune, Vegar Rangul, Terje Dalen
2018
Influence of different soccer-specific maximal
actions on physiological, perceptual and
accelerometer measurement loads 2018 Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine - Terje Dalen, Ørjan Øverås, Roland van den Tillaar, Boye Welde, Erna Dianne von Heimburg
Relative Age Effects and Gender Differences in the National Test of Numeracy: A Population Study of Norwegian Children 2018 Frontiers in Psychology - Tore Kristian Aune, Rolf Petter Ingvaldsen, Ole Petter Vestheim, Ottar Bjerkeset, Terje Dalen
Inevitable Relative Age Effects in Different Stages of the Selection Process among Male and Female Youth Soccer Players 2018 Sports - Pål Arild Lagestad, Ingebrigt Steen, Terje Dalen
2017
The impact of physical growth and relative age effect on assessment in physical education 2017 European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) - Terje Dalen, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen, Truls Roaas, Arve Vorland Pedersen, Ingebrigt Steen, Tore Kristian Aune
Relative Age Effect and Gender Differences in Physical Education Attainment in Norwegian Schoolchildren 2017 Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - Tore Kristian Aune, Arve Vorland Pedersen, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen, Terje Dalen
2016
Player load, acceleration, and deceleration during forty-five competitive matches of elite soccer 2016 Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research - Terje Dalen, Jørgen Ingebrigtsen, Gerardus Johannes C Ettema, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Ulrik Wisløff
2015
Acceleration and sprint profiles of a professional elite
football team in match play 2015 European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) - Jørgen Ingebrigtsen, Terje Dalen, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Barry Drust, Ulrik Wisløff
2014
Relativ alderseffekt ved karaktersetting:
Født for seint til å få toppkarakter i kroppsøving Forskning Trøndelag 2013 2014 - Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen
2013
Effect of single vs. multi joint ballistic resistance training upon vertical jump performance 2013 Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis - Terje Dalen, Boye Welde, Roland van den Tillaar, Tore Kristian Aune
2024
Veien inn til toppidretten er individuell og variert 2024 - Truls Valland Roaas, Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune
2023
Validity and reliability of the Polar Team Pro and Playermaker systems for the estimation of running distance and speed in indoor and outdoor conditions 2023 WCSF - Simen Raaen Sandmæl, Roland van den Tillaar, Terje Dalen
Similarity of player load patterns between positions and matches in elite soccer. 2023 WCSF - Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Gertjan Ettema, Øyvind Bucher Sandbakk, David Caley Ruud McGhie
2020
Bevegelse? Ja, hjerne! 2020 - Truls Valland Roaas, Morten Andreas Aune, Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune
2019
The Association Between Step Frequency Test, Sprint And Agility Performance 2019 Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise - Terje Dalen, Truls Valland Roaas, Håvard Lorås, Morten Andreas Aune, Tore Kristian Aune
2015
Unyansert debatt om barneidrett 2015 - Truls Roaas, Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune
Relativ alderseffekt i skolen: Urettferdig konkurranse ved karaktersetting 2015 Kroppsøvingskonferansen - Tore Kristian Aune, Truls Roaas, Ole Petter Vestheim, Terje Dalen
Sammenhengen mellom fysiske egenskaper og karaktersetting i kroppsøving. 2015 FoU i Praksis - Terje Dalen, Gøril Moe, Tore Kristian Aune
Relative Age Effect and Anthropometrics on Physical Education Attainments 2015 European College of Sport Science - Terje Dalen, Truls Roaas, Arve Vorland Pedersen, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen, Ingebrigt Steen, Tore Kristian Aune
2014
Effekt av elevers antropometri og relativ alderseffekt ved vurdering i kroppsøving 2014 Nasjonal folkehelsekonferanse - idrett og fysisk aktivitet - Terje Dalen, Ingebrigt Steen, Arve Vorland Pedersen, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen, Truls Valland Roaas, Tore Kristian Aune
Lasting Relative Age Effect in Norwegian Youth National Team Handball? 2014 ACSM - American College of Sports Medicine - Truls Valland Roaas, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen, Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen
2013
Relative age effect in physical education: Born too late to get an A 2013 18th annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science - Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen
Coaches perspectives upon motor development when selecting talented young soccer players 2013 18th annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science - Truls Valland Roaas, Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune, Rolf P. Ingvaldsen
Fotballfysiologi - fysiske krav i ulike roller 2013 Seminar for trenere og støtteapparat i eliteserien og adeccoligaen i fotball - Terje Dalen, Sigmund Apold-Aasen
Aksellerasjon og sprint i Tippeligaen 2013 Fotballtreneren - Jørgen Ingebrigtsen, Terje Dalen, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Barry Drust, Ulrik Wisløff
2012
Relativ alderseffekt ved karaktersetting i skolen 2012 FoU i praksis - Terje Dalen, Tore Kristian Aune
Relativ alderseffekt ved karaktersetting i kroppsøving 2012 Nasjonal konferanse i kroppsøving - Tore Kristian Aune, Terje Dalen
Akselerasjon og sprint i Tippeligaen 2012 Medisinsk fotballseminar - Jørgen Ingebrigtsen, Terje Dalen, Geir Håvard Hjelde, Barry Drust, Ulrik Wisløff
2010
Effects of single and multi joint ballistic resistance training upon vertical jump performance 2010 15th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science - Terje Dalen, Boye Welde, Tore Kristian Aune