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Strengths Of Strength And Conditioning

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Strength and Conditioning is essential for athletes, not only to optimise performance, but also to reduce the risk of injury. Discuss this statement.

From my research I have learnt that appropriate conditioning is essential not only to optimise performance, but also to reduce the risk of injury. Research has demonstrated that strength and conditioning training not only improves performance in strength, power and speed related sports and activities but also in endurance based sports and activities.

In most sports, it is not the maximum force produced that determines success, it is the strength that can be produced explosively. The best athletes are not always the strongest but are often the most explosive. Even in highly skilled …show more content…

I do think that every player can benefit from strength and conditioning only in the last 3-5 years have teams got in a strength and conditioning coach is there a need to get one or are clubs being peer pressured into getting them as rival clubs may have them. Arguably they all preach the same gospel probably all work on the same areas and probably do all the same fitness tests. My club teams strength and conditioning coach is a guy called Mikey Kiely from ballybrown in limerick he has also worked with clare U21 all Ireland winning team and was with the limerick footballers last year and this year coming he along with being our strength and conditioning coach also is the limerick academy (U14-U18) hurlers strength and conditioning coach as well as the LIT fitzgibon coach I put the point to him about those strength and conditioning “not only to optimise performance, but also to reduce the risk of injury” we talked about this and both had pros and cons to this statement my argument was that each person is unique in their own way and that no two people are the same so therefore each person needs their own tailored gym program he …show more content…

The heading on the article was DEMAND ON GAA PLAYERS? DOES MORE TRAINING LEAD TO GREATER SUCCESS? This article is about the tyrone football team that Mickey Harte managed to go on and win All Ireland in 2003,2005,3008 the article starts off saying that to be a GAA intercounty player you have to be extremity committed and you have to stand out from your average club player. Is strength and conditioning a major part to play in becoming a top athlete? Or do you just naturally have it. I said to Mikey if myself personally think that you are born into certain things like running, sprinting, swimming we both used usain bolt is a freak of nature. I then said that GAA players play the fastest field game in the world so do be at the elite level you obviously have to have very good flexibility and mobility he agreed I then went on to say does your average club player and your very good county player do the same exercises? Do they do the same winter training? Do they do the same warm up prior to matches? He said no but they are similar he said that intercounty players are fitter and more skilled and equipped than your average club player therefore the level of strength and conditioning needs to be higher at an Elite Athlete level. As we talked more about the article he said that training in the last three to four years has increased dramatically and that it seems to

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