Fitness Case Study

These adaptations are relevant because the body is being stressed which leads to more blood being needed by the working muscles. With this increase in stroke volume and cardiac output, it also increases the heart rate. Heart rate is the amount of times the heart beats per minute. This means that the heart is working hard and being progressively overloaded increases the efficiency and will improve the performance of the athlete. Another adaptation is oxygen uptake. When the body is being progressively overloaded oxygen uptake is really important because it is the amount of oxygen being delivered to working muscles. This amount increases when exercise begins but decreases as adaptations occur. This is very similar to lung capacity as lung capacity is the amount of air that the lungs can hold. Another physiological adaptation in relation to progressive overload is haemoglobin levels. Haemoglobin is the substance in the blood that binds to oxygen and transports it around the body. These levels are important because it’s telling us how much oxygen and blood is being used and directly relates to stroke volume and oxygen uptake. Muscle hypertrophy is a term that refers to muscle growth together with an increase in the size of muscle cells. For a sprinter this adaptation is very important because it indicates that the muscles have been stimulated and grown and an

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Fitness myths are all too common. It starts innocent enough, one person comes up with an idea they think might work, the idea gets passed along, all of a sudden everybody is doing "3 minute workouts to get you ripped in 5 days!". With all the myths out there, it can be hard to decipher what is true and what is not. No need to worry, here at Lift Your Fitness we base our advice, knowledge, and content on research. Feel free to fact check us! Let's take a look at 5 fitness myths that can be LYFted from your mind.

The increase in cardiac output is therefore a result of an increase in stroke volume huge enough to slightly outweigh the decreased heart rate in the equation. As a result of training a touch football player would experience a higher cardiac output, meaning that the body’s cells are replenished more regularly, thus improving the performance of the touch football player.

It took Ariana a lot of courage to take that first step which changed her journey forever. Courage is “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery” (Dictionary.com). Ariana first demonstrates this by denying the doctor’s prediction/order that she would never do gymnastics ever again and that she should forget her Olympic dream as she would never achieve it. The doctors clearly stated to Ariana: “You should give up on your dreams. They won’t be coming true.” (Full Out, 2015) The doctors believed that since there is a metal rod in her leg, the chances of her returning to gymnastics were nearly zero. However, according to Ariana, defeat was not an option and with that she took her second step with even more courage than the first. Ariana started training her leg, she worked with it and attempted to enhance its strength and ability. She worked very hard in an attempt to bring her leg back to its original state. “It took a lot of work but its worth it” Ariana claimed afterwards. Ariana had a lot of support from her friends and family which quickened her recovery. They all supported her in every way they could. Her mother especially mentioned: “Look around you, we are all here, right behind you.” (Full Out, 2015) when Ariana was doubtful of her decisions. Although she could walk again, a year later, Ariana deepened into the world of hip-hop. She trained and improved herself through the art form of dance. Then, with courage muzzled up inside her, she decided to further her training and return to gymnastics. She trained and practiced repeatedly to bring her leg back to its once abilities and in hopes to fulfill her dreams. When others questioned her about her decision, she simply replied: “Gymnastics is my passion, I can’t just give that up.” (Full Out, 2015) However, Ariana’s courage

So she made a plan, to spend time working on her weak areas like swimming and biking and also to perfect small details a newbie would miss like transitioning, changing her wetsuit, etc. She realized that she had to boost herself to be an all rounded athlete- to swim at a competitive pace and to bike faster in addition to being a well paced runner. In total become a jack of all! I am sure you remember the quote “Jack of all, master of none!”

While reading this chapter I found out that multiple-joint exercises are more efficient in increasing muscular strength as compared to single-joint exercises and in order to avoid fatigue and to gain more strength multiple-joint exercises should be performed first. Another thing that I learned that the frequency of training should be dependent on the stage of the season. According to the authors, it is recommended to have four or six resistance training sessions per week as opposed to have one or two practices while in season. While performing resistance training four things can be improved such as: muscular strength, muscular power, muscular hypertrophy and local muscular endurance. Although all of those are important factors in the game of tennis, I believe that improving local muscular endurance would be the most beneficial for a tennis player. One of the main reasons is because the game of tennis does not have a time limit and can go for a long time as opposed to other sports such as basketball, soccer or football, where everyone knows when the game will be over. Improving local muscular endurance would help for tennis players to avoid

CM spoke to Pete Hardell (IIC) regarding a follow-up on Thalia (youth). CM was informed that the youth enjoys CrossFit and she is doing well balancing work, school, sessions and CrossFit. IIC reported that Thalia had a college interview at Barnard and IIC helped the youth prepared for the interview. Barnard.

The goal of 3 WINS Fitness is to increase physical activity through knowledge in order to decrease chronic diseases for residents in the City of San Fernando. The leading cause of death and premature death in San Fernando is Coronary Heart Disease (“Mortality in Los Angeles County”, 2010). Of those adults with Coronary Heart Diseases, 23.9% are diagnosed with Hypertension while 28.4% are diagnosed with High Cholesterol (Los Angeles County of Public Health, 2017). 3 WINS Fitness is a free fitness program located throughout recreational facilities in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles, that provides members of the community group exercise opportunities while also nutrition classes to promote healthier eating and overall lifestyle.

This experiment was performed to see the changes in the heart rate recovery times of in-season, off-season, and non-athlete’s hearts. We spent three days testing our runners, and their heart rate recovery times. Every student checked their initial heart rate, and then ran for 30 seconds. At the end of 30 seconds, we timed how long it took them for their heart rate to reach their normal again. After our research, we found Scientific Journals where scientists had performed similar experiments. We obtained information from Morganroth’s hypothesis (Naylore 2012). He said that athletic hearts had morphed into something stronger. He concluded that athletes exercising developed cardiac hypertrophy. Our research made us more aware of the factors that could cause an athlete’s heart to recover faster than a non-athlete. Some of the factors we found were: hypertrophy, strength trained heart, and endurance trained heart. These factors could help determine why we concluded the results that we found. We concluded that the in-season athlete’s hearts recovered much faster than the other two categories. The in-season athlete’s heart recovered at an average rate of 41.8 seconds. The second fastest was the Off-season athlete’s heart which recovered at an average rate of 51.7 seconds, and the non-athletes falling behind at 63.5 seconds. We believe that the in-season athlete’s heart recovered faster, because they are accustomed to exercising, and they are training each day for

Having read and researched Maya’s case study the first question I asked myself was, what is an Adaptation within the human body? My understanding is that an adaptation within the body is the long term physiological changes in response to frequent training, allowing the body to meet new demands and help in the additional stresses that are placed on the body itself. In the case of Maya, I have studied the chronic adaptations of Maya’s muscular and cardiorespiratory system as a response to her three months training and indeed her target goal to return to her preferred sport of tennis.

Welcome to Fiternal CrossFit! It has been a whirlwind year for all us here at Fiternal. Opening a CrossFit gym has been a dream of mine for over ten years. Our first year in business has given us so much to be thankful for; for each one of our amazing members, for a great business opportunity and for the chance to make difference in people’s lives. Helping members achieve new levels of fitness and health they’ve never imagined is what pushes me everyday to give everything I have to this business. Here at Fiternal CrossFit greatness is what we strive for. We are focused on not only getting members out of a comfort zone but also having them completely leaving it in the past. Fiternal CrossFit is all about functional movements that are constantly

Two different exercise groups were compared to see if velocity and accuracy of the tennis serve improved following a six-week exercise programme. Results of this study did not demonstrate a significant change in velocity and accuracy between pre-test and post-test data. However, the whole-body exercise group did show a significant improvement in velocity compared with the scapular stabilising exercise group. This highlights how the use of the LEX in the kinetic chain of the serve can influence the velocity more than solely

aware that this other natural instinct was looked at as a viable form of intellect.

The first reason that hard work pays off is because in the beginning she was very bad at sports. But the thing is she would say to herself, “ I will never be good at sports.” The first piece of evidence is that she can’t run very fast, for example in the story “Marble Champ” she would try and try to get her body to move faster in the fifty yard dash and she would never beat anyone. So, this shows that she is not good at sports because in most sports you need to run, skate or other movements that involve your legs, also she is not very fast when using her legs. My second piece of evidence is that she scored a goal for the other team, when playing soccer, by her kicking it into her own teams net. This shows that she didn't even know which net was and you need to know that to play a sport. My third example is that she can’t kick a ball in the right direction and can’t kick it to well. This says that she really once again doesn’t know how to use her legs for the right purpose . Even if she is very good at using her brain