Personal Fitness And Training Program: Team Handball

I have chosen to study athletic training because it allows me to still participate and be involved in sports as well as be able to help athletes recover from injuries while gaining valuable clinical experience for physical therapy. Growing up I have always had a love for sports but I have not been graced with the abilities to become a professional athlete. With my love for sports as a youth I watched a lot on television with my father and I would see athletes get injured and medical personnel rush out to their aid. When I found out they were athletic trainers and physical therapists, I knew that is what I wanted to do when I grew up. All throughout high school I was involved in sports and unfortunately had an injury or two. Although our school did not have an athletic trainer, I went to many different specialists and

Although, there are many differences in the techniques and training methods that were used to prepare for the Olympics, during the Ancient Greek period and now, research has shown that there are still some similarities and systems that are still practiced today. The first Olympic Games started in Olympia around 776 B.C.E. but later the Games were discontinued by the emperor Theodosius, in 393 A.D. The Olympics have quickly gain back popularity after resuming in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and has been a very anticipated event occurring every four years (Ancient Olympics: History). This has allowed athletes to have the opportunity to look forward and prepare for one of the most important sport competitions in history, as many others have done hundreds of years ago. When getting ready for the Olympic Games, training methods such as, athletic, weight, and mental training are used to prepare athletes for better performance, as they were in ancient times. Athletes practice these training methods to help them achieve greater ability when participating in their sporting events, in hoping to ultimately win a medal.

Power lifts uses the majority of large muscle groups to build muscle for strength and speed. The triple extension of a power clean is similar to many activities within soccer, such as running, jumping, and diving to block shots. The snatch and clean exercises are a beneficial to aid in mobility, increase powerful, build lean muscle mass, and even tax the cardiovascular system. Back squats build lower body strength, which helps improve speed. The soccer goalie must be able to have a powerful kick to move the ball to the other side of the field. The deadlift is an exercise for core strength and increase overall power. Bench pressing increases upper body strength, something that soccer goalies need in order to be able to throw the ball with their hands. The power clean is beneficial in athletics as it teaches an athlete’s muscles to react explosively, develops neuromuscular coordination, and improves reaction time. The stronger athletes were able to apply greater amounts of force to the ground, allowing them to sprint at greater velocities.

Term 3 commenced with each boy studying HPE in year 11, participating in the sport Touch Football. In this subject the cohort has been analysing the relationships between different energy systems and components of fitness that need to be acquired to successfully participate in the physical activity. Components of fitness are described as basic qualities that demonstrate the ability to complete daily tasks with energy, reduced health risks, and participate in a variety of physical activities (1). This presentation will give a thorough reflection on Touch football and what energy systems are of most importance to the sport. I will also be reflecting on the components of fitness that I personally need to work on which is observed from primary data collected in the HPE classes. Also methods of improvement toward specific components of fitness.

My interest in Athletic Training was kindled while listening Dr. Vince Diller in his Introduction to Athletic Training class. While listening to his experience as an AT and how challenging an AT’s job can be I was not only impressed with Athletic Training profession but also saw it as exciting, challenging, and meaningful career. By the end of his Introduction to Athletic Training fall course I switched my major from Exercise Science to Athletic Training. A primary reason for pursuing Athletic Training is close interaction with athletes. To be an athlete’s friend, and mentor over an extended time will impact their life.

In 1891 a simple game was invented that changed the world. Basketball is a athletic sport usually played on an indoor court where two teams of five each attempt to score by shooting the basketball into one of two baskets at each end of the court. The team who scores the most baskets wins the game. Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring basketball is one of the most popular spectator sports in the world. Basketball can be played outdoors as well, it was invented to serve as an exciting indoor game for the winter months and to be played with less contact than football. It quickly became a spectator sport. Now basketball attracts larger audiences than ever especially in the United States, South America, and Europe.

Gymnasts can perform the stability ball pike, stability ball jackknife, slide plank, stability ball rollout, and front plank (Major, 1996). These exercises will help the gymnast be able to hold positions need for competition for a long duration of time. Gymnasts can also perform pushups, handstand holds, stand up on toe, stand toe raises, and bar dips to improve their muscular strength (Major, 1996). The exercises help improve individual muscles that will be used during the sport (Major, 1996). They also include movements that are used during the completion as well. The assistant exercises not only will help with movement, and strength, but will also help stabilize the joints (Major,

In the study with trained soccer players, they saw no changed in any strength test for the Hamstring Curl group. At the same time, the Nordic Hamstring group should improvements in the same tests. Nordic Hamstring had increased hamstring torque by 11% and both the maximal isometric hamstring strength where improve at 90, 60, and 30 degrees (Mjolsnes et al). Even in untrained college students another study showed that eccentric strength training was more effect in peak isokinetic eccentric hamstring torque; the muscle contraction needed while sprinting, in comparison to concentric strength training (Kaminski et al.). The goal of all of this is to improve the athlete’s ability to have eccentric hamstring torque and that help reduce the amount of hamstring strains they

Only two teams are allowed to play at a time. On each team there are four team players plus a goalkeeper. The players may kick the ball, but not dribble it, and must kick the ball if it's on the floor. If the ball is in the air or bouncing they

Goalball is a team sport. There are three people on a team. The teams stand on opposite sides of the court. They stand behind a goal line. Players roll a ball across the court. They try to roll the ball across the goal line of the other team. If they do, they score points. Scoring points wins

My preferred future career is sports and exercise psychologist because being fit and healthy is an important essential in anyone's life. Happiness, success, goals and opportunities are one of his major roles of why I picked this job.

Athlete development models dating from the 1950s to the 1980s consisted of a four stage system based athletes that could continue to grow to the highest national level and it excluded all other participants. It also eliminated its own athletes using the pyramid model until only the highest competitors were left. The long term athlete development process was created and improved over a ten year process giving it several major advantages over the previous systems. One of the systems many major advantages is the focus on physical literacy. The first three stages of the LTAD seven stage model are devoted towards teaching physical literacy. Physical literacy is the first of ten factors that the model was built on. When one learns physical literacy

Improving my physical conditioning is a must if I want to live healthier. At least once a week I should engage in some type of activity that raises my heart rate and stretches my muscles. I should avoid staying at my desk all day when I do not have homework, and move around instead.

The role of ballistic movements in any given fitness training protocol in sports is that they allow an individual's body to obtain and contain muscle contractions with high velocities, maximum force, high firing rates, and brief contraction times. Regulation of muscle contraction is important since the muscles involved exhibit the capacity to grow and gain strength. Ballistic movements incorporate the central nervous system (CNS) whose responsibility is to create energy to be used in the shortest time possible (McMaster,

In this assignment I will be introducing myself and my motivation for enrolling on module E122. Primarily I will be looking at the differences between sport, recreation and physical activity. I will look at how we can define these categories which I will do by looking at examples of each activity and then explaining which category they fall into, as well as demonstrating how these activities can overlap between categories. Furthermore, I will look specifically into one activity analysing the scientific, economic and management changes that have occurred in recent years and the effects these have had. (on what?)