The Cupping Point Book Report

A common adverse affect of overtraining for an elite athlete is ‘Overtraining Syndrome’. Overtraining syndrome is a neuroendocrine (neural input cells in the brain) disorder characterized by poor performance in competition, inability to maintain training loads, persistent fatigue, frequent illness, disturbed sleep and the most frequent in an elite athlete: alterations in mood state (Nature Immunology and Cell Biology Laurel T Mackinnon May 2000). Nearly all athletes experience the mood deterioration observed without impairment in sport performance. Since the goal is to reach a point of improved performance within the athlete the athlete then has to reach his/her limits of physical capacity (or even beyond) and since the balance between the right amount of training and overtraining is a fragile line many athletes suffer from this overtraining syndrome. It is not the hard training that makes you stronger in fact it makes you slightly weaker, it is the rest that will allow your body to grow stronger. Physiologic improvement in sports only occurs during the rest period following hard training. Due to this need for hardened training many elite athletes overwork themselves

More on the topic, when high schoolers play sports all they want to do is to do/perform their best every time they play, well when they player/players practice too much (overtrain) they can seriously hurt themselves. For example the famous olympic swimmer Missy Franklin. If you haven't heard the big news, Missy Franklin just got back to the pool after a double shoulder surgery according to SwimSwam.com. Now you might be thinking, what happened that made her get surgery? Well she had to get surgery because she had over worked her shoulders doing what she

Recovery is a very important aspect that many athletes don’t think about regularly. They believe as we have heard many times over that someone else is always training harder. If the proper rest and recovery is not taken advantage of, you are doing more harm than good to your body. In addition to lack of recovery comes injury. Many athletes incurred injuries do to over training because the body had not had enough time to recover and rest. We need to manage our training intensity and volume for our athletes. As the athlete recovers we hit them with a little bit more intensity and a little bit less volume. This keeps the athletes constantly showing improvement without overtraining. There is no single test for diagnosing professional burnout or overtraining syndrome. Burnout is assessed primarily through the use of questionnaires, but biochemical analyses might give important information about occupational stress and burnout mechanisms. As we move forward in the process of helping the athlete we need to look at the psychological and physiological breakdown. I feel that in order to get the athlete

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

Through the use of self-reporting systems, athlete trainers utilize several instruments to identify any present postconcussion signs and

First, is the education of the patient, if the athlete is willing to report and communicate the problem to the appropriate personnel at the moment and time when it happens, the medical staff will be on the ability of removing the athlete from participation if it is necessary. In addition of educating the athletes, it will be vital to focus on the education of coaches, and parents over the consequences of this injury, the responses of the athlete during the injury, importance of reporting this to the medical personnel (Athletic trainer), and acceptance of the injury. By increasing the awareness of the injury, the medical staff will be more accurate, precise, and the time of recovery will be lower since the athlete will report it in a shorter period of time.

One of the more prevailing ideologies attached to athletes and coaches alike is the more training one completes the better performance can be obtained. While this method has proven to push athletes to crush records, there comes a point in this action plan when excessive training will cause an athlete to plateau or even deteriorate in performance ability (Wilmore, Costill, & Kenney, 2011). This particular method to training has sparked many a research study in which it is generally found that athletes who train in an excess of double the volume of a typical training program see no additional benefits to performance (Wilmore et al., 2011). There are several consequences to this type of training with the top two being overtraining syndrome and

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.

His ability to make relationships and acquire information made him the best person to take the role as initial adopter. The qualities of Paul Revere allowed him to initialize a complete cascade in his network of early American settlers during his “Midnight Ride”. The final connection between The Tipping Point and diffusion in relation to the Law of the Few deals with the importance of weak ties. Weak ties allow for information to be relayed across clusters of a network. Without the appearance of weak ties, diffusion would be rather difficult to accomplish. The prime example of an individual who possessed many weak ties goes by the name Roger Horchow. In The Tipping Point, Horchow is a master at creating relationships and bonds in areas of life in which he had no real expertise. Horchow had social connections in the arts, technology, agriculture, architecture, business, law, health care, and any other occupational field . Horchow and his social connections were edges in which information could be passed along seamlessly from one cluster to another, making the possibility of a complete cascade much more probable regarding diffusion. Besides the Law of the Few, Gladwell attributes the occurrence of a “tipping point” and its relation to diffusion with the Law of Stickiness as well.

Most of know this to be a very specialized and technical sport. Well, it is, and if you don't know what you are doing you can certainly hurt yourself. Maybe this is one reason so many of us have sore backs due to improper body mechanics. Olympic weight lifters are some of the most athletic and powerful athletes around. This is just in the nature of the sport. To explain it simply the object of the sport is to pick an object up off the floor to your shoulders (the clean) or overhead position as efficiently as possible (clean and jerk or snatch). I will not bore you with the details of Olympic Weight Lifting at this time. If you think about it, you probably execute these types of motions throughout the day in life. Weather you are lifting a child, a bag of groceries, or any object for that manner. Olympic lifting doesn't have to involve a bar with weights on it, any object can be used including dumbbells, medicine balls, stones, sandbags, and Russian Kettlebells (this in an article in

One of the most difficult challenges we as clinicians’ encounter, that directly limits the patient’s success, may be due to the lack of communication between both parties (athletic trainer and athlete/patient) to agree upon a clear plan of action. The SPORT model establishes a plan of action before beginning the process of helping the athlete/patient with a specific situation. The SPORT model provides a goal-setting strategy that can prove to be useful when measuring the patients progress towards achieving a goal/s that were set early on in this process. These objective measures can prove to motivate the athlete/patient as they are able to witness improvement in themselves. Or it can provide valuable feedback that may be indicative of the need for an intervention as a result of goals not being met. The SPORT model essentially applies the locus of control theory in that the athlete believes he/she is in control over the events/outcomes in their lives.

Sports performance is a multifactorial equation requiring detailed evaluation and intervention. At COR, we strive for “making you better”, no matter your sport or sporting background. We are very methodical about our approach and unlike others, we’re not going to give you a program just to workout hard. If you are looking simply for a workout, go run up a hill. We’re looking to make you better, during each and every session. This is the process we’ve used with Olympic Gold Medalists.

Youth sports are a regular part of any parent's life, over time, the more talented kids emerge and are picked for travel teams or special training. Travel teams usually come with year long commitments forcing children to quit their other sports. Although when you think of a sport related injury you usually think of kids colliding, or falling and banging their head, although, more than 50% of sport related injuries are overuse injuries. Most overuse injuries occur when a young athlete focuses on one sport, playing it year round. This puts stress on the same muscle all year, instead of just for one season. An athlete that plays multiple sports exercises multiple muscles, giving other muscles a break. Without giving other muscles a break, the one muscle becomes tired and weak, and eventually snaps. Youth sports are a highlight of childhood, but the risk of injury has rapidly increased due to

Superstar Athletics will be a revolutionary, individualized wellness program for youth to promote proper biomechanics and strength training to reduce the amount of injuries seen in the 8-18 year old school athlete population. Our diverse, multidisciplinary staff comprised of occupational therapists and physical therapists are uniquely qualified with certifications in pediatrics, hand therapy, and CSCS with extensive knowledge of biomechanical functioning and application in the sports realm. Superstar Athletics will strive to be the company

It can be seen that if an athlete choses to use the tools of sports phycology they will effectively increase their sporting performance and ability. These tools have helped me to improve volleyball ability and