Improving Performance in 100 Meter Sprinter and Touch Football Player

The relationship between the principles of training and physiological adaptations has a significant impact on performance. Many factors need to be addressed in a training program to make it a successful one for a particular athlete and thus improve their performance.

The nature of Touch Football ensures there is a place on the field for everyone due to it being simple game. Touch Football has a number of mental and physical benefits though, which can improve the state of people’s mental and physical health and fitness (Play Touch Rugby League, 2016). Touch Footballers are constantly on the move from sprinting, walking, jogging to dodging, diving and jumping, working all muscles are the body and increasing the bodies heart rate (Rlskilzsportscamp, 2016). The fast paced nature of the sport ensures participants are always moving no matter what they are doing in its small time frame of around 40

Touch football is a type of football in which the ball carrier is downed by touching instead of tackling. In the game of touch football, there are many different fitness components that relate to specific touch positions. This essay will evaluate the components of fitness and analysis their relevance to touch football. To complete this, a series of fitness tests were done to help determine my suitability to touch football resulting in a recommendation outlining my suitability to a specific touch football position, based on my fitness.

4 20 yard sprints at 60 to 65% effort (if in gym high knees for a minute).

This term in PE we have been focusing on energy systems and exercise physiology principles in Touch Football. In touch there are three positions: middle, link and wing. My fitness results, when compared to an Australian Touch Association player (ATA player), are only satisfactory. My speed and cardiovascular endurance were within range of ATA players but my agility was not, therefore, I have chosen wing as my best-suited position as the key fitness components for this position are speed, agility, power and cardiovascular endurance. In order for me to improve in my least acquired skill, agility, I must incorporate agility based skill exercises into my Dingo Flats training program. The purpose of this presentation is to present and evaluate the

All athletes regardless of age, gender, genetics or sport can benefit from effective training. It is important that the selected training improves the body’s ability to perform tasks associated with the chosen

This term in PE we have been focusing on energy systems and exercise physiology principles in Touch Football. My fitness results, when compared to an Australian Touch Association player are only satisfactory. I have chosen wing as my best-suited position for Touch Football. The purpose of this presentation is to analyse a generic touch training program, the “Dingo Flats Training Program” and evaluate whether it is suitable to improve my touch football specific fitness needs and then present a reinvigorated program that will aim for me to achieve a high level performance of touch football based on training principles and my experiences.

For this term’s HPE unit, we have learnt about core physiological principles as well as fitness and training concepts, and how this would relate to touch football. This knowledge was then utilised to design, evaluate and modify an individual one week training program (microcycle) to enhance performance in touch football. The task of this assessment is to analyse the training program upon completion, by evaluating its strengths and weaknesses and finally modifying this ‘microcycle’ to rectify any weaknesses that may have be identified.

(2014). A Consideration of the Paradigm of Exercise Physiology. Research In Sports Medicine, 22(3), 314-322.

The fourth, and most significant, response to training that a touch football player would experience is a change in their oxygen uptake. Maximal oxygen uptake, or max VO2, is considered by professionals to be the best guide for cardiorespiratory

The study of the human body and its movements has been present for centuries. While there has almost always been an interest in the human body and its way of working, modern technology and scientific discoveries have greatly aided modern medicine and research of human anatomy and physiology. These days, the study of medicine is far more extensive than many people understand, and those who want to pursue a medical field have great amounts of work awaiting. Athletic Training as a profession in this day and age involves extensive schooling, training, and focus when on the job.

17 players on a college football team were sampled and measured height, body mass, body mass index, and squat strength in 1 week. Within 1 week, they measured speed at 5, 10, and 40 yards on a track surface. They discovered a significant relationship between squat 1RM/BM and 40-yard sprint times and 10-yard sprint times. The players that had a max/body weight of 2.10 or above had significantly quicker times at 10 and 40 yards when compared to below 1.90. A squat emphasized training program combined with proper creatine supplementation could possible improve overall strength, speed, and improved game performance for the running back with more broken tackles and yards gained, thus showing that this research is favorable to this proposed

A study by (Bulbulian, 1996) showed that aerobic capacity can be increased by high intensity interval training rather than through steady state, long aerobic training. This study also showed that repeated sprints with minimal rest intervals could increase VO2max; therefore decrease recovery time (Bulbulian, 1996). These factors have to be kept in mind when training an athlete of this caliber. All aspects of energy production should be trained including the ATP-PC system for short explosive movements, including the initial pitch or quick reaction towards the ball; glycolysis for both anaerobic and aerobic recovery and the aerobic system for from muscular endurance to be able to recover the energy in muscles needed for continuous pitching. It is important for a pitcher to have a well-balanced work out regime to improve all aspects of the sport. Creating a yearlong schedule to improve these aspects is the goal for the periodization program. The implementation of sport specific exercises and understanding how the body works, with inclusion of recovery time, and metabolic pathways for energy expenditure, will influence the success of both the program and the

Physical and mental strength plays a major role in a football player’s life. Football is a twelve month process, which consists of off- season (six months), in -season (five months), and the Transition (one month). During off-season the football player’s main goal is gaining strength, size, and much power, in-season they continue to practice and work on maintaining the gains in strength during the off-season, and the transition is when they rest and recuperate their body from the physical exercise. Football players are constantly bumped and knocked down during practices

Boxing is a well used medium of exercise that can be found being practised all over the world, you can start participating in classes at local gyms or boxing clubs with no prior knowledge of the sport with relative ease (Ghosh, 2010). Boxing is usually advertised by most gyms and leisure centres under their aerobic classes, but the nature of boxing is not just strictly aerobic. In fact, Health & Fitness (2000) describes that a competent boxer should have good aerobic fitness but about 70% of the energy being used in boxing is using the anaerobic system. Boxers should focus their training on brief and explosive workouts, followed by rapid recovery periods and then again with more explosive workouts, rinse and repeat.