Physiological Underpinnings

The energy cost of football is estimated as being 16.4kcal per minute amounting to 1480 kcal for a 90 minute match. This therefore highlights that the individual needs post-match fluid and food intake in order to replace lost energy.

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

“The analysis of movement provides an athlete with optimal development as well as minimising the risk of developing injuries through the incorrect execution of a movement” (Ackland, Elliott & Bloomfield, 2009, p 301).

In “What is the Safest Starting Position for American Football Players?,” scientist’s Bruno Bonnechere, Bennoit Beyer, Marcel Rooze, and Jan Serge Van Sint explain their experiment showing the pro/con ratio for football players who practice with various sprint starting positions, and the “learning process effect” (Bonnechere, Beyer, Rooze, Serge Van Sint, 2014) amongst football players and non-players. The results from different tests give a conclusion that is targeted to football players, and the officials of the game.

Burnout can have severe consequences for athletes, not only adversely impacting motivation and health, but also a subsequent reduction in performance and possible retiring from sport altogether (Madigan et al., 2015). Overtraining can be outlined as an accumulation of training and non-training stress that ends in long term impairment to an athletes performance that includes both physiological and psychological symptoms in which recovery can extend to years (Slivka, Hailes, Cuddy & Ruby, 2010). As overtraining is both physiological and psychological there is little understood about why there is a sudden decrease in all types of performance: resistance, anaerobic and aerobic; what is clear is that while most types of training, even burnout, can be remedied with reduced activity, overtraining is immune to most recovery strategies (Wilmore et al.,

LO3 Understand how routine data collected in health and social care informs the planning of care for individuals

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Football is an american sport that is played at many different levels of competition and is enjoyed every day by its amazing outcomes and great games. Newton’s First Law of Motion states that

Since writing his paper Greig’s (2008) work has been citied 82 times across a range of different topics such as further aetiology, recovery and injury prevention (Opar et al. 2012; Dranganidis at el. 2015; Martyn et al. 2015) . Being citied so many times gives us an indication of how successful this experiment was as it is now the basis of many scholar’s information. Greig’s findings inspired himself along with others to further test this idea. The reliability of this experiment was increased by using SAFT, which is a multidirectional test requiring players to mimic the movement they use in a game with incorporating sharp change in directions, running around obstacles and therefore not running in a straight line on a treadmill similar to the

The game of circle ball consists of a lot of short explosive bursts of energy. For example, sprinting to defend or jumping up to catch the ball. It is a team game but I am going to look at how I can improve an individual’s performance as a defender. Within the game of circle ball there are many demanding factors an individual has to cope with, these being your psychological and physiological state, nutrition and biomechanics. I will produce a needs analysis by taking one major part of each factor so it is more in depth and I can get the best out of the performer in each area. I will also be including a range of academic literature and scientific evidence to back up my opinions and theories. The needs analysis will be in action after the first

Power is the utilization of maximum force on an object or human; it is always done as fast as possible, and it is found it small, scattered surge of movements. Specifically, power is completely dependent on the speed and strength combination. Two sports which demonstrate power are Boxing & Tennis.

I too agree with the sociocultural view. The biological and psychological perspectives appear to explain behavior predetermined by the way our brains are formed, or predict behavior according to different situations. The sociocultural perspective seems to give way for a persons ability to adjust behavior and be open minded to other types of behavior that does not come from the say cultural background than

Fútbol, otherwise known as soccer, is the most popular sport in the world. With over fifty-four participating countries, it is easy to see why it has four billion followers. American football only involves Americans, thus it is America's biggest sport. Unlike fútbol, football’s biggest event, the super bowl, only attracts one hundred fourteen million people. Football and fútbol, although pronounced similarly, when it comes down to mechanics these two sports are in fact more different than similar.

The calf is one of the main muscle components of a counter movement jump as it is utilised in many explosive lower limb activity (Brian, 1998). The compression to the calf allows for enhanced blood flow and reduced muscle vibration (Bringard, Denis, Belluye & Perrey, 2006), which may improve performance. Ferris and Farley (1985) found that leg stiffness including calf muscles have a positive effect on leg hops and this indicates how long compression tights apply pressure to the calf muscles resulting in a possible improved vertical jump height. As there is a decrease in muscle movement, the numbers of collected muscle fibers are also reduced, which can be found by a decrease in myoelectric activity, allowing the athlete to produce more force.

Study conducted showed that the anaerobic power, leg muscle power, and agility in the athletes were higher than in the non athletes, whereas there was no differences found in flexibility and pulmonary functions (p>0.05). The women soccer players showed more significantly mesomorphic, less endomorphic, least ectomorphic components and higher performance level than did the sedentary women.